The emergency plan, designed to stave off the state shutdown of Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, is greeted with skepticism by probation employees.
Los Angeles County moved some 275 youths to Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, pictured here, in May 2023. is facing pushback from supervisors and rank-and-file employees, who fear the decision will shuffle a persistent staffing crisis from one side of the agency to the other and potentially leave thousands of probationers without proper supervision.Chief Guillermo Viera Rosa
“Remember when everything was good in the Field and super bad in the Halls,” Ford wrote. “DSOs were being held over for 30+ hours, being assaulted just about every day by youth. Remember that? Now the Field is under attack.” Field staff members willingly worked shorter shifts in the juvenile hall under prior mandates, but they feel the 90-day rotations are too disruptive, according to Garcia-Leys.
L.A. County needs the support of probation officers to meet the narrow deadline imposed by the state. If the officers challenge the mandate — either officially through the union, or unofficially by not showing up — the department could find itself in an even worse position when state inspectors return to check whether the county is still out of compliance.
the department failed to act on information that a probationer was using drugs and carrying a firearmfound the department had not properly monitored Justin Flores, a convicted gang member, for years. Flores’ probation officer did not make contact with Flores, despite saying he had, on multiple occasions, and did not follow up after learning that Flores wasn’t living at the address provided to the department.
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