L.A.'s Staples Center to House Jackson Memorial

Michael Jackson's memorial service will be held Tuesday at Staples Center in Los Angeles, with tickets distributed through a lottery.

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Also on hand at the press conference was Los Angeles Councilwoman Jan Perry, who addressed fears that the cash-strapped city would be hard-pressed to pay the extra law enforcement that would be required fort the memorial.

"Every year, the city budget is developed and a provision is made in the police department budget to cover the overtime costs of extraordinary events," said Perry. "This is not the first nor the last that the police department will be called on for a special event of this magnitude."

Perry also encouraged Jackson fans preparing to flock to Los Angeles for the memorial to consider staying at home and watching the service on television.

"I want to stress to those people coming or thinking about coming to our city for this special event that you might consider watching this from the comfort of your own home," she said.

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Earlier Friday, Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine told The Associated Press he wished there had been more time to work out the logistics.

"If you can imagine 100,000 people show up and you have 20,000 capacity, there is not sufficient room," Zine told the AP. "Now you have a crowd-control problem."

Zine went on to say that the holiday weekend makes it "the worst time to work something out."

There has been no word yet on who will fund the extra police presence that the huge crowd is expected to require.

The memorial plans were announced a little more than a week after Jackson was rushed to the UCLA Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Earlier today, law enforcement sources told ABC News they found the powerful sedative propofol in the home where the pop icon lived and suffered fatal cardiac arrest.