L.A. County's Probation Department says it needs more time to safely eliminate the use of pepper spray at juvenile detention facilities.
Los Angeles County Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Mark Ridley-Thomas listen Tuesday to a plan to phase out the use of pepper spray at juvenile detention facilities. Instead of eliminating it by the end of this year, the department is asking to do it by September 2020. of pepper spray in its juvenile detention facilities, officials were tasked with phasing out the chemical agent by the end of the year.
Under her plan, the department will conduct training and will begin to allow only two staff members per shift to carry the chemical agent. After a few months, the pepper spray canisters will be kept in a locked box, to be used only in extreme emergencies, followed by another step to eliminate its use altogether.
Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, who co-authored the motion to ban pepper spray in February, said she welcomed the input from McDonald. “We can do better. We owe it to those in our care. We owe it to ourselves,” he said. “So probation reform, no one said it would be easy. It’s a heavy lift, but that’s why we use the language of transparency and accountability.”Chief Probation Officer Terri McDonald addresses the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday about her plan to phase out pepper spray in juvenile detention facilities.
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