L.A. County supervisors approved a $43-billion budget on Monday at a meeting punctuated by moments of silence for two young people who died in recent months in county custody.
Los Angeles County supervisors approved a $43.4-billion budget Monday, saying they hoped it will fix the failing jails and juvenile halls while acknowledging the board’s failures to successfully oversee the departments in the past.
The supervisors acknowledged they were failing those in county custody, but stressed they were doing the best they could to improve conditions with limited funds. Budget officials noted housing sales were down, one of the core sources of the county’s most flexible dollars.County officials warned the Board of Supervisors the county may have to spend as much as $3 billion resolving claims of sexual abuse at the county’s facilities.
To approve the budget, the supervisors need a series of votes on different portions of the plan. Supervisor Holly Mitchell cast the sole no vote on the budget changes recommended by Davenport’s office. Mitchell had put forward an amendment aimed at eradicating deputy gangs in the Sheriff’s Department, but it failed. The budget calls for the addition of three captains to be placed in stations with a history of deputy gangs and cliques.
The new budget will go into effect as the county’s jails and juvenile halls are beset by crisis. The Times reported Saturday onsmuggled out by an inmate showing brutal beatings and inattentive deputies. Meanwhile, the conditions for the county’s younger detainees got so grim that a state oversight body recently shut down the two halls, forcing officials to rapidly resurrect Los Padrinos as a juvenile hall.
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