Her proposal follows the opening of a state investigation into possible civil rights abuses against youth in County custody.

A Los Angeles County probation officer was arrested Tuesday afternoon on suspicion of smuggling drugs into a juvenile hall where a teen died of a drug overdose in 2023, prosecutors said. Michael Solis ...

Pepper spray — also known as OC spray, because it’s derived from the chili-pepper extract oleoresin capsicum — is banned in ...

Los Angeles County now has fewer than 120 probation officers left to supervise nearly 22,000 probationers as a result of the redeployment of most of its officers to the county’s troubled juvenile hall ...

Derek Reed, a former Macomb County sheriff’s deputy, was accused of slapping a teenage boy in his custody in August 2023. Dammeon Player, a former Warren police officer, was accused of unnecessary ...

South Bend police say an officer acted according to policy after a video showed him holding down a 14-year-old girl. Police released body camera footage and a 911 call related to the incident, which ...

L.A. County prosecutors allege that a probation officer conspired with two juvenile detainees to sell Xanax to people being held inside Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar. (Brian van der Brug/Los ...

One field office, in the San Gabriel Valley had a single employee handling 715 cases, something the Probation Department called not “sustainable.” ...