LA County supervisors want Los Padrinos declared an emergency to avoid ‘extreme peril’

A new motion from two Los Angeles County supervisors would declare the potential emptying of Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall a “local emergency” and grant the county access to powers typically reserved for natural disasters to avoid putting communities in “extreme peril.”

The declaration, if approved at the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday, Dec. 17, would allow the deployment of “disaster service workers” and law enforcement to the understaffed juvenile hall, expedite hiring and firing of...