LA County will deploy airport-style scanners, more K9s after juvenile hall overdoses

Los Angeles County will install airport-style body scanners and increase the use of drug-sniffing canines at its two largest juvenile facilities in response to a series of overdoses and the recent arrest of a tutor accused of smuggling in nearly 200 illicit pills.

The Board of Supervisors voted 4-0, with one abstention, at its meeting Tuesday, July 8, to scale up the security at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall and the Barry J. Nidorf Secure Youth Treatment Facility to better detect and deter drugs.