By Cece Woods | The Current Report
A Los Angeles County Probation Supervisor filed a notice of intent to sue this week for damages sustained during an incident at Los Padrinos Juvenile Facility in February.
Supervising Detention Services Officer Richard Ruiz is seeking $10 million dollars in damages after allegedly being unlawfully detained and having state and federal rights violated after a routine security screening at the direction of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lieutenant Eric Strong, on loan to the Department of Probation and currently the Chief of Safety.
“Mr. Eric Strong and the corrupted regime at the probation department continue to harm their own employees without any kind of accountability. The Board of Supervisors and the Probation Oversight Committee have both turned a blind eye to what is going on inside the department. The probation department does not “[b]uild safer communities through positive change,” rather, the County and the probation department destroy the lives of their employees. We very much look forward to holding everyone involved accountable to the full extent permitted by law.”
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