Today, Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger placed a motion for next Tuesday\u2019s Board meeting that aims to permanently close Camp Kenyon Scudder, which is located in the City of Santa Clarita.<\/p>\n
The motion is aligned with findings from a\u00a0feasibility report<\/a>\u00a0completed by the Juvenile Justice Realignment Block Grant (JJRBG) Subcommittee that was submitted to the Board of Supervisors in July 2021. The report concluded that Camp Scudder was not a feasible site to permanently house Secure Track Youth.<\/p>\n Supervisor Barger expressed the intent and motivation behind her motion. \u201cWe must reduce the number of County sites that detain youth in environments that aren\u2019t focused on rehabilitation,\u201d\u00a0Barger\u00a0<\/strong>said. \u201cOur Board has made a commitment to support a \u2018Care First\u2019 vision for our youth. Let\u2019s permanently close this site, which cannot deliver on that promise.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Nicole Vienna, a member of the JJRBG Subcommittee, voiced her support of the motion. \u201cI personally have worked with juvenile justice youth in County operated camps as a mental health professional,\u201d\u00a0Dr. Vienna<\/strong>\u00a0said. \u201cI can attest to the fact that Camp Scudder was a very challenging environment. Space was lacking and security breaches were common. I fully support Supervisor Barger\u2019s motion to close Camp Scudder. Our youth deserve a setting that is both rehabilitative and secure.\u201d<\/p>\n Built in 1948, Camp Scudder has served as a juvenile detention facility for over sixty years, but was closed in 2019 due to issues stemming from its structural integrity. A copy of the motion is available\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46866,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46865\/revisions\/46866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}