On December 11, last Tuesday, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas read an urgent new...
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LA County Supes Seek to Establish a Minimum Age for Juvenile Prosecution
At the end of September 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 439, a bill to ensure that...
Supes Vote to Turn a Probation Camp Into a Residential Job Training Facility for Youth
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted in favor of a motion to...
Does the Proposed New LA Probation Oversight Commission Have the Legal Right to Subpoena Power? A Group of Experts Say….YES
What kind of power does a civilian commission need if it is to effectively oversee a large, complex...
Have Conditions Become Unsafe For Staff & Kids at LA County’s Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall?
In the past two weeks, two new reports have described critically unsafe conditions at the Barry...
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...