The Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS) has an “unplanned funding gap” in its budget after the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) Approval Authority retroactively pulled $11 million in UASI 2011 grant funds from LA-RICS—allegedly on a recommendation from the office of Los Angeles City Mayor Eric Garcetti  according to a letter from the Los Angeles County board of supervisor to Garcetti’s office