Los Angeles

LA County Board

May 06, 2025 Item #23

Agenda Item 23

23. Responding to the Probation Oversight Commission’s Recommendations\nto Safely Depopulate Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall\nRecommendation as submitted by Supervisor Hahn: Instruct the Chief\nProbation Officer to assess the following recommendations, as amended and\nunanimously approved during the April 24, 2025, Probation Oversight\nCommission (POC) special meeting, to swiftly reduce the population at Los\nPadrinos, as legally permissible, and in compliance with Judge Espinoza’s April\n18, 2025, ruling, and report back to the POC in writing or verbally at the May 8,\n2025, POC meeting on the assessment of the recommendations, including\nwhich ones are currently being implemented, which ones will be implemented in\nthe future, and which ones the Department does not plan to implement and why:\nReassess and return currently detained youth to court to revisit the\nfindings in the initial detention hearing;\nSend all post-disposition youth to their placements within 24 to 48 hours,\nin alignment with Board Order No. 9 of July 23, 2024 and best practices;\nSlow the influx of new youth by immediately reforming the Intake\nDetention, and Control (IDC) Division;\nRecommit to reducing incarceration of girls and gender-expansive youth;\nEvaluate the Secure Youth Treatment Facility population at Campus\nKilpatrick for release to step-down programs, especially including Pine\nGrove;\nMove most pre-disposition girls and gender-expansive youth to Dorothy\nKirby Center; and\nMove lower-risk boys to camp. (25-2488)\nADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS 24 - 63\nChief Executive Office