Los Angeles County (2023-2024 inspection cycle)

Initial Inspection Report 2023-2024 Biennial Inspection Cycle Date of Exit Briefing: 6/13/2024 Inspection Type: Comprehensive County: Los Angeles Facility Name(s): Central Patrol Division Stations BSCC #(s): 1485, 1500,1530, 1580, 1720 BSCC Type: IJ Facility Representatives: CA Parker, Deputy Montero, Deputy Montoya, Deputy Medina, Sergeant Ruiz, Lt. Navares, CA Costellion, Sgt. Rosales and CA Kelly BSCC Field Representative: Dale Miller Corrective Action Plan Required? YES DATE CAP DUE TO BSCC: 7/13/2024 Current Items of Noncompliance Title 15. Section Description § 1027. Number of Personnel A sufficient number of personnel shall be employed in Avalon and East Los Angeles Stations lack adequate each local detention facility to ensure the personnel to meet required supervision of persons in implementation and operation of the programs and custody, complete safety checks, and both do not activities required by these regulations. have female staff available when females are in Whenever one or more females are in custody, there custody. shall be at least one female employee who shall be immediately available and accessible to such females. § 1027.5 Safety Checks South Los Angeles, Avalon, Century, and East Los (b) There shall be no more than a 60-minute lapse Angeles Stations, all have issues with safety checks. between safety checks. - Avalon, Century, and East Los Angeles checks (c) Safety checks for people in sobering cells, safety were not meeting the documentation within 60 cells, and restraints shall occur more frequently as minutes. outlined in section 1055, section 1056, and section - South Los Angeles and East Los Angeles logs 1058 of these regulations. do not record the actual time checks and cell (e) There shall be a written plan that includes the checked. documentation of all safety checks. Documentation - Avalon station fails to check Sobering Cell shall include: checks as required. (1) the actual time at which each individual safety check occurred. Note that Century Station uses a scanner system that (2) the location where each individual safety check is inconsistent in recording. Other stations have the occurred, such as a cell, module, or dormitory scanner system but chose to use paper logs. number. § 1056. Use of Sobering Cell Avalon Station sobering cell logs had times with Intermittent direct visual observation of people held in checks exceeded the 30-minute as required. the sobering cell shall be conducted no less than every half hour. Los Angeles County Sheriff, Central Patrol, T-1, Initial Inspection Report Page 2 Title 15. Section Description § 1062. Visiting (a)(2) A publicly posted schedule of facility visiting Avalon, East Los Angeles, and Marina Del Rey hours. If practicable, visiting hours should be made Stations are currently not allowing pre-arraignment available on weekends, evenings, or holidays. persons to have visitation. In all cases, the video (a)(4) In Type I facilities, the facility administrator shall visitation is not working and there is not space or develop and implement written policies and procedures to allow visiting for non-sentenced accommodations for in person visiting. Additionally, detainees. The policies and procedures will include a Avalon and East Los Angeles did not have a visitation schedule to assure that non-sentenced detainees will schedule posted in the public lobby. be afforded a visit no later than the calendar day following arrest. § 1147. Supervision of Minors in Secure Custody Inside a Locked Enclosure South Los Angeles Station logs for minors held in a secured cell outside the jail did not include (a)(2) safety checks, as defined in Section 1006, of the minor by staff of the law enforcement facility, at documented safety checks. least once every 30 minutes, which shall be documented. § 1148. Supervision of Minors in Secure East Los Angeles Station logs held secure minors Custody Outside of a Locked Enclosure outside the Jail, cuffed to a fixed object, logs did not The decision for securing a minor to a stationary object for longer than 60 minutes, and every 30 contain documented safety checks and evaluation. minutes thereafter shall be based upon the best interests of the minor and shall be documented. § 1270. Standard Bedding and Linen Issue At the East Los Angeles Station BSCC staff looked at The standard issue of clean suitable bedding and mattresses and found that several had tears or holes linens, for each incarcerated person entering a living in the covers. area who is expected to remain overnight, shall include, but not be limited to: (a) one serviceable mattress Note: BSCC Staff will be reclassifying Century Station holding facility. The facility no longer contains beds or hold persons over 12 hours. During this inspection, it became clear that this is a temporary holding facility and operated as such.