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Supervisors order security, screening and expanded treatment after overdoses at county juvenile halls
Summary
By a 4-0 vote with one abstention the Board directed probation to increase screening, deploy scanners and canine teams, review contractor vetting, end an implicated tutoring contract, and accelerate a substance-use MOU to expand treatment.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a motion aimed at curbing the flow of drugs and other contraband into county juvenile halls and expanding substance-use treatment for youth after a recent suspected overdose incident at Los Padrinos and earlier deaths linked to fentanyl.
The emergency motion, introduced by Supervisor Janice Hahn and coauthored by Supervisor Lindsay Horvath, directs the Probation Department to install airport-style body scanners at Los Padrinos and Barry J. Neidorff juvenile halls (where feasible), strengthen canine screening and canine deployment, tighten entry screening for staff, contractors and visitors, review…
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