{"id":56687,"date":"2023-02-24T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T19:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56687"},"modified":"2023-02-24T11:02:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T19:02:37","slug":"barger-issues-statement-calling-for-resignation-from-l-a-county-probation-chief-change-must-start-from-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56687","title":{"rendered":"Barger Issues Statement Calling for Resignation from L.A. County Probation Chief: \u201cChange must start from the top.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>Los Angeles , CA (February 24, 2023)<\/strong> &#8211; Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger issued the following statement today, sharing her support for change at the highest level of Los Angeles County\u2019s Probation Department:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>\u201cOur Probation Department is in crisis and has consistently failed to correct increasingly unsafe conditions for youth and staff, chronic understaffing, and abysmal conditions for the youth under its supervision and care.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>We are nowhere near the level of rehabilitation and reform that our Board has envisioned. We can\u2019t continue to wait for change to happen \u2013 we need to drive change. That change must start from the top. I am calling for Chief Adolfo Gonzales to resign from the Probation Department\u2019s top post immediately.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles , CA (February 24,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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-56687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56687","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=56687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56688,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56687\/revisions\/56688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}