Second in command at LA County probation, the well-liked Chief Deputy, Cal Remington, has issued a 67-page report that rips into the problems of the agency in a refreshingly forthright way (not that he had much of a choice)—and then lays out some of what he and his boss, Probation Chief Donald Blevens, intend to do about them.
Zev Yaroslavsky’s blog details some of what is in the report, which it calls “searing.”
There’s a lot more searing still needed, but okay, it’s a start. And, unlike most of what comes out of some of the county’s other bureaucratic offices, the report is quite readable. (You can read it yourself by going here.)
I’ll have more on the report and what it does—and does not—say, as time goes along.