The county has until Oct. 10 to produce a plan to correct deficiencies, much of them stemming from understaffing, and then 90 days to implement the fixes.
The NBC4 I-Team follows their years long investigation and sits down with LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger to discuss continued pepper spray use in juvenile.
The 359-page lawsuit details allegations of systemic failures and horrific scenes of sexual abuse that lawyers say went unchecked for decades by the county probation department.
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Holly Mitchell called on the county Probation Department today to immediately begin transferring more than four dozen youth offenders out.