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.”
