SANTA CLARITA, Calif.—Santa Clarita city officials and residents said on April 18 they are filing a legal challenge to Los Angeles County’s plan to house juvenile offenders at a probation camp in the city, saying the facility would endanger the community.
The legal action stems from a hotly contested vote taken by the county Board of Supervisors in mid-March, in which it selected three probation camps to house and provide rehabilitative services for juvenile offenders who would ordinarily be sent to state youth prisons.
The state is closing all of its youth prisons, shifting responsibility to individual counties for housing post-trial juvenile offenders at “Secure Youth Track Facilities.”
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