![]() ![]() ![]() The plan approved by the Board of Supervisors at its meeting Tuesday would establish Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey as the county’s main juvenile facility, shift Barry J. “It’s therefore shameful and dangerous to think that reserve deputies - with absolutely no training to take care of children - can care for youth in detention.” ![]() “Already, we’re suing the sheriff’s department for its failure to provide adequate care or safety to people in our jails,” Camacho said. The decision to assign reserve deputies to the juvenile halls to ease a staffing crunch “is not the care first philosophy the board has long promised,” said Melissa Camacho, a senior staff attorney at ACLU SoCal. In a statement Wednesday, May 3, ACLU SoCal pointed to two of its ongoing lawsuits against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for poor conditions in its jails as evidence of the agency’s inability to “provide basic, humane care for people under their custody.” County Board of Supervisors that would transfer 275 youth detainees to the previously shuttered Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall and bring in reserve sheriff’s deputies to fill staff vacancies. The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California has condemned a newly approved plan from the L.A. ![]()
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