Despite reports that the Sylmar detention center was a hotbed for drug use, youth were removed from the treatment unit partly because of pushback from attorneys.
The deployment of reserve deputies is part of a plan to head off a threat by state regulators to close L.A. County's juvenile facilities. A third juvenile hall would be reopened under the plan.
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A probation officer was seriously injured when stabbed in the face by a youth inside Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar. The attack comes just days before a state board could vote to shutter the long-troubled facility.