LOS ANGELES—Citing what he called repeated operational failures at Los Padrinos and Barry J. Nidorf juvenile halls, state Attorney General Rob Bonta said July 23 his office will move to establish a receivership for Los Angeles County’s troubled juvenile detention system.
At a downtown Los Angeles news conference, Bonta pointed to ongoing issues with the county’s management of the juvenile halls, citing youth-on-youth violence at Los Padrinos in Downey and drug overdoses in the facility. Bonta called the issues “system failures … that put lives at risk.”
Bonta said he plans to file a court petition seeking to have a receiver pointed to oversee operation of the juvenile halls, accusing the county of failing to comply with a series of court judgments and orders regarding management of the facilities dating back to 2021. He said the county remains out of compliance with 75 percent of the court judgment provisions….