Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept North Patrol Division (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): LASD North Patrol Division Stations BSCC #(s): 1670, 1750, 1860,1860, 1871, 1800, 1801 BSCC Type: IJ Facility Representatives: CA Lopez, CA Sosa, Deputy Shreves, CA Lanns, CA Ingersoll, and Deputy Gaxiola 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 Lancaster Station lacks adequate personnel to meet each local detention facility to ensure the required supervision of persons in custody, complete implementation and operation of the programs and safety checks. Lancaster Station is very limited in activities required by these regulations. female custody 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 Palmdale, Lancaster, and Santa Clarita Valley Stations, all have issues with safety checks. (c) Safety checks for people in sobering cells, safety cells, and restraints shall occur more frequently as - Lancaster and Santa Clarita Valley stations fail outlined in section 1055, section 1056, and section to check Sobering Cell as required. 1058 of these regulations. - Santa Clarita Valley Station safety checks (d) Safety checks shall occur at random or varied were not random. intervals. - Palmdale, Lancaster, Santa Clarita stations (e) There shall be a written plan that includes the logs do not record the actual time checks and documentation of all safety checks. Documentation cell checked. shall include: (1) the actual time at which each individual safety Stations not using the scanner system had logs that check occurred. did not reflect the actual time and cell checked. (2) the location where each individual safety check Stations that use the scanner systems report occurred, such as a cell, module, or dormitory problems with consistency and reliability of the number. system. Santa Clarita Valley Station did not have a record of § 1029. Policy and Procedures Manual Commander Annual Inspection as required by this Each facility administrator shall, at least annually, section and department policy. review, evaluate, and make a record of security measures. Los Angeles County Sheriff, North Patrol, T-1, Initial Inspection Report Page 2 Title 15. Section Description § 1045. Public Information Plan. Santa Clarita Valley Station did not have a Public Each facility administrator of a Type I, II, III or IV Information Plan available as required by this section. facility shall develop written policies and procedures for the dissemination of information to the public, to other government agencies, and to the news media § 1056. Use of Sobering Cell Lancaster and Santa Clarita Stations sobering cell Intermittent direct visual observation of people held in logs had times with checks exceeded the 30-minute the sobering cell shall be conducted no less than as required. every half hour. Santa Clarita Valley Station did not have a visitation § 1062. Visiting schedule posted in the public lobby. (a)(2) A publicly posted schedule of facility visiting hours. If practicable, visiting hours should be made available on weekends, evenings, or holidays. § 1147. Supervision of Minors in Secure West Hollywood Station had held two minor in a Custody Inside a Locked Enclosure secure cell and there was no documentation of (2) safety checks, as defined in Section 1006, of the required safety checks on the logs. minor by staff of the law enforcement facility, at least once every 30 minutes, which shall be documented. § 1148. Supervision of Minors in Secure Lancaster Station logs for securely held 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 contain documented safety checks. object for longer than 60 minutes, and every 30 minutes thereafter shall be based upon the best interests of the minor and shall be documented. Title 24. Section Description In the Santa Clarita Valley Station, there are 1231.2.1 Reception and booking processing rooms with phones for both male and A cell or room for the confinement of inmates pending female. These rooms do not meet 1231.2.2 their booking and comply with Section 1231.2.2. requirements for toilets, wash basins, and fountains required in Title 24, 2013 construction requirements. NOTE: The old Santa Clarita Station #1800 was inspected for Living Space and Physical structure. Because the jail facility is not operating and has not been used during the cycle, there was no procedures checklist completed.