{"id":74140,"date":"2025-07-23T11:52:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=74140"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:16:01","slug":"barger-responds-to-attorney-generals-call-for-state-control-of-l-a-county-probation-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=74140","title":{"rendered":"Barger Responds to Attorney General\u2019s Call for State Control of L.A. County Probation Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Kathryn Barger issued the following statement today in response to Attorney General Rob Bonta&#8217;s request to place the Los Angeles County Probation Department under state receivership:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>&#8220;I am not surprised by Attorney General Bonta\u2019s request to place the Los Angeles County Probation Department under state receivership. In truth, this moment has been a long time coming. For years, I have voiced my concerns about the deepening dysfunction within the department\u2014some of it fueled by the Board of Supervisors&#8217; micromanagement. Today\u2019s action is a direct repudiation of our Board\u2019s ability to effectively oversee this department.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>While this request carries weight and must not be taken lightly, my focus remains unchanged: protecting and supporting the youth in our care. They deserve safe facilities, meaningful rehabilitative programs, and a system that offers them a path to growth and accountability.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>If a state receivership is what it takes to finally deliver those reforms and bring long overdue stability, then I welcome this intervention. The well-being of these young people must always come first.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors&#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-74140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74140","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=74140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74141,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74140\/revisions\/74141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}