L.A. County Board of Supervisors meeting is temporarily shut down by protest

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Protesters disrupt L.A. County supervisors meeting with demands to close Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall again and cut the Probation Department's budget.

Just days after youths were moved into Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, probation officers found a gun in an area potentially accessible to youths, sources said.Los Padrinos, located in Downey, was reopened this month after ato move most youths out of its troubled juvenile halls in Boyle Heights and Sylmar. The order followed a worsening staffing crisis, rising incidents of violence and the overdose death of 18-year-old Bryan Diaz.

”Nine kids have overdosed since Bryan Diaz,” one man chanted Tuesday, standing a few feet from the meeting room entrance. “What more will it take?”County leaders have said Los Padrinos represents a fresh start for the Probation Department following years of dysfunction.But Adreena Rochall, whose son was moved last week to Los Padrinos from the Barry J. Nidorf facility in Sylmar, said he had found the conditions deplorable and she’d heard from those inside that the air conditioning had broken.

“We’ve got a whole community of kids just being destroyed,” she said. “It’s not rehabilitation and recovery. It’s an insane asylum.” Around 11:30, protesters once again shut down the board meeting with chants of “Shut down Los Padrinos.”

 

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