Los Angeles County’s newly chosen chief probation officer and her new second in command, who will both take over in January, are entering LA’s troubled probation department at a pivotal moment.
For the top position, LA’s Board of Supervisors selected former Assistant LA County Sheriff Terri McDonald who until recently was in charge of LA’s massive jail system. She had been brought in to put in place reform recommendations following a series of public scandals.
To head the juvenile side of the department, the supervisors hired Sheila Mitchell, former chief of the Santa Clara (California) Probation Department, where she earned a national reputation for instituting innovative youth programs in the agency she ran for nearly 10 years.
[For more of this story, written by Madeline Ottilie, go to http://jjie.org/two-new-probat...d-full-plate/341810/]
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