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Board hears probation report on receivership, hiring and community supervision amid continued concerns about decarceration and CSEC supports
Summary
Department leaders updated supervisors on recent receivership hearings, mutual‑aid checks, community supervision redesign and staffing metrics. Supervisors pressed for clearer decarceration metrics, full implementation of CSEC funding transfers and stronger visitation continuity at youth facilities.
The Probation Department provided a comprehensive status update May 19 on receivership matters, facility compliance and changes to community supervision after earlier reorganization aimed at meeting settlement requirements.
Department representatives summarized the recent order‑to‑show hearings focusing on use‑of‑force and OC spray, noting monitored improvements but identifying further training and process work. The department said it is awaiting a targeted evaluation of Dorothy Kirby Center's suitability for developmentally disabled predisposition youth and will report back on costs and operational changes.
Supervisors and community advocates raised several persistent concerns: staffing shortages that have made it difficult to sustain community supervision while meeting facility staffing requirements; the need for clearer metrics to measure decarceration, population goals and success in placing youth in suitable community settings; and the status of unspent funds earmarked for CSEC (commercial sexual exploitation of children) services. Supervisors asked for timelines on transferring identified unspent CSEC funds and for improved reporting on first home‑visit rates, referrals and outcomes in the new community supervision model.
Probation highlighted early recruitment progress: reductions in background completion times from multi‑month levels toward a targeted window, ongoing efforts to increase contingent offers and academy enrollment, and lower-than‑previous turnover among DPO1 recruits after the department moved to a bachelor's‑level entry. The department also described a "strike team" deployed to address compliance and inspections at Los Padrinos and other facilities ahead of BSCC inspections and said it was expanding in‑home visit practices to improve supervision outcomes.
Supervisors requested specific metrics and follow‑ups: counts of youth by LAD (Los Angeles Detention) screening scores, breakdowns of non‑707(b) admissions, detail on CSEC funding transfer timelines, and the department's plans to sustain visitation (including the Mother's Day hug pilot) while managing facility incidents that have sometimes disrupted visits.
The reports were received and filed; the Board asked Probation to return with more precise, time‑bound metrics on decarceration, CSEC funding movement and tracking of home‑visit and referral outcomes.
