Los Angeles County officials are weighing a plan to create a large and robust oversight body for the troubled Probation Department.
Female minors detained at the Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, one of many facilities under scrutiny at the Los Angeles County Probation Department.
“There is widespread consensus that the Los Angeles County Probation Department is in dire need of oversight," according to aProbation officials, who have been aware of the upcoming announcement and cooperating with the process, issued a statement Wednesday saying they appreciated the work that went into crafting the report.
The plan as proposed would give the new committee significant staff — as many as 20 new county employees — and authority, differentiating it from the current volunteer Probation Commission it would replace. The fiscal impact of the new commission remains unclear. The supervisors still must decide thorny governance issues before the panel does any work, starting with how it will be composed.— and potentially the size of its staff — will likely be a major sticking point for the board, which could make those decisions in the coming weeks, said Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, who previewed Thursday’s planned announcement about the commission.
Though the department oversees tens of thousands of adult probationers, with 6,500 employees and a $1-billion budget, the thrust of the current reform effort is focused on juvenile detention facilities.
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