Number of “At Risk” Kids of LA County Served For $397,071? Zero In January of 2015, the...
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FOLLOW THE MONEY: Is LA County Probation Misspending JJDPA & Other Juvenile Justice Money? by Alex Johnson
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ve written in the past about the issue of how LA County Probation has...
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Newest LA County Probation Audit Finds a Disturbing Array of Problems—Including a $161 Million Hoard of Badly Needed Unspent Cash
As we move forward toward what we hope will be a freshly optimistic and reform-minded era for Los...
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Why is LA County Probation Sitting on $21.7 Million in Unspent Juvie Justice Funds?
A few weeks ago, WitnessLA learned that LA County Probation was sitting on $21.7 million in...
Defunding 2020: Yes, the LA County Supes Cut $145.5 Million from the LA Sheriff’s Budget & $49.1 million from Probation, Then They Killed the Probation Oversight Commission. (Unless…)
At Monday's Board of Supervisors meeting, prior to the vote on Los Angeles County's 2020-21...
Budget Breakdown: Money for Diversion, Probation Reform, and More
On Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled his plans for the 2020-2021 budget, a $222.2...
Facing the Inferno, Part 1: Why Wasn’t LA County Probation Prepared to Evacuate Kids & Staff at Campus Kilpatrick When a Monster Wildfire Struck?
For those who know fires, the question wasn’t if a large and dangerous fire would one day...
Probation Chief Terri McDonald Presents Plan to Phase-Out Pepper Spray in Juvenile Lockups
On Tuesday, during the LA County Board of Supervisors meeting, Probation Chief Terri McDonald and...
Fed Up With Probation’s Ongoing Failure to Spend Juvenile Justice $ Millions on Proven Programs for LA County’s Kids, the Supes Make a Radical Move
On Tuesday afternoon, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a new...
Work on Civilian Oversight Commission for LA County Probation Finally Begins
On Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m., the newly chosen team, which has been given the task...