The FBI on Wednesday morning served search warrants at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s headquarters and the superintendent’s home.
Federal officials served the warrants as part of an ongoing investigation, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the probe. The nature of the investigation and what allegations were being examined was not immediately clear.
Reached by ABC7, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California responded: “Law enforcement is executing a judicially approved search warrant at those locations. We have no further comment.”
The district and Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment from ABC7.
Carvalho has been superintendent of the nation’s second-largest school district since February 2022. FBI agents wearing blue raid jackets and carrying cardboard boxes were seen at his San Pedro home on Wednesday, along with several news reporters and photographers who were kept at bay across the street.
Sources told ABC News that the allegations, while under court seal, are not violent in nature, and the search was conducted quickly.
In a brief statement provided to ABC7, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s office said: “LAUSD is an independent body not governed by the City of Los Angeles. The Mayor’s Office has no information about this.”
The sprawling LAUSD has more than 500,000 students and covers more than two dozen cities.
Before coming to Los Angeles, Carvalho oversaw Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Florida’s largest school district, from 2008 to 2021, when he was credited with improving graduation rates and academic performance.
ABC News and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
