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L.A. TACO’s Most-Read Investigations Of 2024

In the past 12 months, L.A. TACO published investigations that other media outlets ignored or overlooked about people experiencing the worst food poisoning of their lives at a swanky food event, the alarming increase in people legally carrying guns in Los Angeles, hardworking restaurant workers struggling to get paid, cops watching a $1 million bus burn to the ground, and an attorney general who says he wants to free innocent people from prison but has yet to do so.

12:22 PM PST on December 31, 2024

Attorney General Rob Bonta sits at his desk while people hold old folders marked "appeal" behind in the doorway. There is a "world's greatest DA" coffee mug, donut, cell phone with the chill guy meme on the screen on his desk. In the background on the wall, there is an Office of the Attorney General emblem that says "liberty and justice but not right now."

Attorney General Rob Bonta sits at his desk with his arms folded and his feet up on his desk.

|Illustration by CJ Conde for L.A. TACO

In the past 12 months, L.A. TACO published investigations that other media outlets ignored or overlooked. About people experiencing the worst food poisoning of their lives at a swanky food event, the alarming increase in people legally carrying guns in Los Angeles, hardworking restaurant workers struggling to get paid, cops watching a $1 million bus burn to the ground, and an attorney general who says he wants to free innocent people from prison but has yet to review a single case.

We either broke every story on this list or we were the only publication covering it. 

Here are L.A. TACO’s seven most-read investigations of 2024:

Oysters at an L.A. seafood festival.

More Than 70 People Reported Feeling Ill After Eating Oysters At L.A. Times ‘101 Restaurants’ Food Event

By Lexis-Olivier Ray