The understaffed Los Angeles County Probation Department is asking that state if local police departments can help preform compliance checks.

Four L.A. County probation officers have been placed on leave in connection with “youth-on-youth violence” inside a Downey detention facility, officials announced Friday. The discipline comes ...

Supervisor Janice Hahn, whose district includes the hall in Downey, said she respected the independence of other department heads and was “unsure about what giving our chief probation officer ...