LA County has positioned 66 probation officials on go away since Jan. 1

Sixty-six sworn probation officials in Los Angeles County had been put on go away since Jan. 1, pending investigations for a variety of alleged offenses, together with some associated with sexual misconduct and youth-on-youth violence, officers mentioned Monday. 

The county Division of Probation mentioned the figures come with 14 — two greater than in the past introduced — officials put on go away associated with youth-on-youth violence at Los Padrinos Juvenile Corridor within the Los Angeles suburb of Downey. 

The ones circumstances are being investigated by way of the place of job of California Lawyer Normal Rob Bonta. Some other 39 probation officials are accused of normal misconduct, which incorporates suspected use of over the top drive, kid endangerment or abuse, ownership of contraband, and negligent supervision.

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As well as, 18 have been put on go away for suspected sexual misconduct and 9 for arrests unrelated to their employment.

“We’re liberating this knowledge within the spirit of better transparency and to guarantee our stakeholders — particularly the households of youths in our juvenile amenities — that we can no longer tolerate anything else that impedes our challenge to offer a secure, nurturing and structured surroundings for the ones entrusted to our care,” probation company leader Guillermo Viera Rosa mentioned in a remark. 

The ones put on go away have been assigned to the dept’s grownup and juvenile operations, Rosa mentioned. 

Los Padrinos Juvenile Corridor reopened remaining 12 months to switch two different amenities after government closed it in 2019.

The headquarters of the Los Angeles County Division of Probation. (Los Angeles County Division of Probation)

In February, the California Board of State and Group Corrections declared Los Padrinos and every other kids facility fallacious to deal with younger offenders. The frame gave the ability 60 days to rectify any problems or else it might be ordered to near its doorways. 

In April, the board reversed its discovering after figuring out that enhancements have been made. In its Monday announcement, the Probation Division didn’t expose any information about the newest violence on the facility. 

Aerial view of Los Padrinos Juvenile Corridor in Downey, Calif. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Occasions by means of Getty Photographs)

Rosa mentioned all of the officials put on go away account for a small minority of the dept’s just about 2,800 sworn workforce.

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“It’s out of appreciate for almost all of our officials, who carry out their tasks every day with integrity, that we moved temporarily on those circumstances,” he mentioned. “It isn’t proper that almost all will have to be tarnished by way of the misconduct of a couple of. We can no longer tolerate anything else this is an affront to our challenge and a shame to the essential paintings we do.”

Fox Information Virtual has reached out to Bonta’s place of job and the Probation Division.