The Los Angeles County Probation Department wants a judge to reject the state’s proposed takeover of its juvenile facilities and to instead grant the agency its own powers to “slash through staffing ...

Michael Dempsey, the veteran corrections officer the state wants put in charge of L.A. County’s juvenile facilities, has spent 40 years in the industry, including running a maximum security juvenile ...

The LA County Probation Department cannot account for $79 million , a big chunk of its $700 million budget. Garrett Therolf is covering the story for the Los Angeles Times .

One year ago, state regulators, fed up with Los Angeles County’s repeated failure to maintain minimum standards for juveniles in its custody, took the nearly unprecedented step of ordering the ...