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Board delays decision on armed security contracts for libraries, asks for social-worker plan
Summary
Supervisors continued a vote on contracts for armed security at 25 county libraries, seeking a report back on social-worker alternatives and contract details before taking final action.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 21 continued action on a proposed contracts package for armed security at county libraries, citing questions about alternatives and the balance between law enforcement and social-service responses.
Supervisor Hahn introduced a board letter seeking approval of multiple contracts to provide armed, on-call security at high-risk library locations. The contracts would be awarded to InterCon Security Services with a five-year potential aggregate value (board letter lists up to about $65.7 million over five years if fully deployed). For the near term the department estimated about $4 million in contract value to cover 25…
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