The 66 suspended officers account for about 2% of the 2,800 sworn personnel working for the LA County Probation Department. "It is out of respect for the majority of our officers, who perform their duties each day with integrity, that we moved quickly on these cases," Viera Rosa said. "...
LA County to Explore Splitting Probation Department between Youth, AdultsLos Angeles County officials will explore splitting the troubledProbation Department into two...Favot, Sarah
The refusal to vacate has put the county in untested legal waters. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Miguel Espinozaordered the Probation Departmentto appear in court Monday to argue why the hall should not be closed down. The L.A. public defender’s office has said the agency will ...
The report from L.A. County probation officer Tanesha Brooks described a series of fights during breakfast inside Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall last December. One teenager, she wrote, got into eight separate altercations in just seven minutes. But key details were missing from the document. Brooks’...
Probation camps and ranches are California’s version of local county youth prisons. Then we have juvenile halls for predisposition for young people that are being detained, going back and forth to court throughout the state, also. And then, of course, we have county jails. LA County has a...
is the murderer, it is going to bring about a schism.” At the time of the killing, Jennifer Tombs had two juvenile convictions for aggravated car theft, had a third case pending, had been arrested for setting her bed on fire and was on an electronic monitor for violating probation. Tomb...
For the next half-hour the Florence and Normandie intersection remained eerily quiet. Jim Galipeau, a member of a gang unit at the county probation department who probably knows the Eight Trays better than any white man in L.A., stopped his car a few minutes after 5 p.m. to banter wit...
A US judge sentences BitMEX co-founder Benjamin Delo to 30 months probation without home confinement after he pled guilty to violating the US Bank Secrecy Act — BitMEX co-founder Benjamin Delo received 30 months probation without home confinement for Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) violations. More: Bl...
County, flood advisories issued 1 PM PT Wildfire took an Altadena man's neighborhood and his Corvette dream Risk rises for mudslides around L.A. County fire zones; prepare for worst-case scenario, officials warn Lopez: As Eaton fire advanced, here’s how employees rescued 45 elderly and...
The online tributes reverberated throughout the southland, particularly in Orange County, where viewers of the defunct Orange County News Channel, students and colleagues at Chapman University, and fellow broadcasters like me at AirWatch had come to know Bruce. We knew him on television and as a...