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Crescenta Valley captain outlines school resource deputy duties; reports sharp drop in city Part 1 crime
Summary
Captain Ryan Vienna described the LA County Sheriff Crescenta Valley Station’s school resource deputy program, training standards and diversion focus, and reported preliminary city Part 1 crime down 51% and residential burglaries down 84% year-over-year; trustees praised deputies and asked follow-up questions.
Captain Ryan Vienna of the LA County Sheriff’s Crescenta Valley Station told the La Canada Unified School District board that school resource deputies (SRDs) prioritize safety, crisis management, diversion and community outreach rather than enforcing the letter of the law in every student interaction.
Vienna introduced his team and said SRD responsibilities include trespass prevention and crisis response, and that deputies frequently coordinate with school counselors, administrators and outside mental-health teams. He described mandatory training for deputies assigned to schools — a 40-hour SRD training plus a 32-hour mental-health training during the first year on assignment — and noted SRDs work to link students to services including psychiatric mobile response teams when appropriate.
Vienna shared incident data for the district’s four schools: “Between the 4 schools that we serve, we had 86 calls for service in the school year 24-25, 55 calls for service in the school year 25-26.” He reported two mental-health holds in 24-25 and none in 25-26 to date, and said the SRD program recorded “0 uses of force on the campuses” in the two-year review period covered by the presentation.
On citywide trends Vienna said, in preliminary figures from his meeting that morning, Part 1 crime in La Canada Flintridge was down about 51% year-to-date and residential burglaries had dropped 84% in January compared with the prior year. He characterized the statistics as preliminary and attributed the recent numbers in part to extraordinary evacuations last year that produced an elevated baseline.
Trustees and residents praised deputies for their presence during a recent student walk and welcomed newly assigned Deputy Brian Chun. The captain and trustees emphasized interagency coordination — including with the district, city and California Highway Patrol — in planning and messaging for protests and large incidents.
Next steps: trustees asked staff and the station to continue collaborative work; no formal board action was required.
