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Council votes to prevent immediate closure of medical clinics at three city detention facilities
Summary
The council approved a motion to avoid shuttering onsite medical services at the city's three detention clinics and directed Personnel and LAPD to report back with cost and operational alternatives within 30 days.
The Los Angeles City Council on Friday unanimously approved a motion to keep medical services running at the city’s three detention facilities and to require a short, written plan for how to fund and operate those services going forward.
Councilmember Raman introduced the motion, saying staffing and funding changes proposed during the budget process left the Personnel Department with a plan that could have consolidated detained-person medical services into a single clinic. Raman said closing two clinics would lengthen transport times, reduce continuity of care, and pull officers off patrol. “Thousands of individuals who rely on…
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