The FBI is searching the office and home of the Los Angeles schools superintendent

Police served search warrants Wednesday morning at the home and office of Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, authorities said.

The Department of Justice confirmed the search, and video shows FBI agents at the superintendent’s home Wednesday morning. Workers at the scene declined to answer questions about the operation.

Police sources previously told NBC4 investigators that the search was at Carvalho’s office and his home in San Pedro, which is about 23 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.

Details about the search were not immediately available. It was not clear if anything was seized from these areas.

Carvalho did not immediately respond to requests for comment Wednesday night made by email and phone.

An affidavit filed in support of the search has been sealed, authorities said.

“We can confirm that the FBI is serving a warrant for those locations,” the FBI’s Los Angeles office said in a statement. “However, the affidavit in support of the letter has been closed by the court and therefore, we have no further comment.”

LAUSD also confirmed there was a “law enforcement presence” at its headquarters and at Carvalho’s home. “The district is cooperating with the investigation,” a police spokesperson said in a statement.

Video taken by an NBC Los Angeles helicopter appeared to show agents exiting the area and leaving a nearby Dodge Charger. Another group of agents remained in the area this morning, gathering across the street from Carvalho’s residence in the south Los Angeles County community.

A neighbor estimated there were about 20 FBI agents outside the home at one point Wednesday morning.

“I was with my wife. We were drinking our cup of coffee, and we heard sirens going off, and all of a sudden somebody said, ‘Stay in your house,’ whatever,” John Schafer said. “I saw at least five, six parked in front of my house and one house above.

“I saw someone in camo with a gun pointed at the house. And, as he pointed at the house, I was like, wow,” Schafer said. “I knew he was the superintendent, but they told us to stay in the house, so I stayed in my house.”

The agents, some carrying bags, declined to comment when asked about the operation.

The US Attorney’s Office confirmed that no arrests had been made in the operation, which the agency said involved search warrants, not arrest warrants.

The search in Los Angeles County was tied to another South Florida community of Southwest Ranches, the FBI said.

“We searched the Southwest Ranches residence today as part of this case and have cleared the scene,” the FBI office in Miami said.

Carvalho has been superintendent of the nation’s second-largest school system since February 2022. He was reappointed unanimously by the school board last year.

NBCLA reached out to school board members for comment but did not immediately respond.

Before coming to Los Angeles, Carvalho led Miami-Dade County Public Schools for 14 years. Born in Portugal, Carvalho previously taught physics, chemistry and calculus in Miami and later became an assistant principal at Miami Jackson Senior High School.

He has also been a vocal critic of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and its impact on students in his district.