New Lost Hills Sheriff’s commander is one of the station’s own
By John Loesing
Acorn Staff Writer

The Lost Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has named veteran law enforcement officer James Glazer as the new commander of the Lost Hills Station in Calabasas.

Glazer, a 53-year-old lieutenant, succeeds John O’Brien who retired for medical reasons after serving as station chief for less than a year.

Glazer, the Lost Hills operations commander since 1995, assumed the station’s leadership duties last November when O’Brien went on medical leave for shoulder injuries. Sheriff Lee Baca moved Glazer into the commander’s role June 10, but will wait until a captain’s salary becomes available in the department budget before giving Glazer an official promotion.

Glazer, who served as a project manager for the construction of Lost Hills in 1991 and has been at the site ever since, was seen as a natural choice for the new leadership role.

"Everybody’s very comfortable with him," said Steve Glennan, a Lost Hills deputy. "He’s been here awhile and he’s very much a known quantity."

Glazer received his promotion to lieutenant in 1985 when he went to work as a watch commander at the Sheriff’s Department custody jail in Valencia. In 1986, Glazer took charge of inmate services and correction education programs for the department’s Custody Division in downtown Los Angeles, whose jurisdiction at the time included nine jails and over 20,000 prisoners a day.