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L.A. County probation chief plans to quit as juvenile hall closure looms
and James Queally
Dec. 5, 2024 Updated 6:13 PM PT
L.A. County’s chief probation officer said he plans to depart the troubled agency as a deadline to evacuate Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall approaches, sources said, potentially leaving more than 200 incarcerated youths with no place to go.
Probation chief Guillermo Viera Rosa sent a brief memo Wednesday to the county Board of Supervisors saying he planned to retire by the end of the year, according to several sources who requested anonymity to discuss a sensitive personnel matter.
Viera Rosa’s unexpected departure would cap a 20-month stint during which he failed to reform an agency whose juvenile halls again face the threat of closure under mounting scrutiny from oversight agencies and the California attorney general’s office. The county Probation Department is responsible for overseeing both adult parolees and youths in juvenile camps and halls.
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