Local News in Brief : Parole Office Looks for Hospitable Site
Responding to a public outcry against a parole office in an Alhambra residential neighborhood, this city has hired a real estate agent to find another site for the facility.
Officials in Alhambra and adjacent Monterey Park said they became aware of the office’s existence only after residents complained about strangers in the neighborhood. Last month, about 1,700 Monterey Park residents signed a petition protesting the location of the office--a two-story office building housing 20 parole agents who monitor 1,075 parolees from the southern San Gabriel Valley and parts of Los Angeles--and delivered it to their City Hall.
Representatives of the State Department of Corrections have agreed to move the facility, which opened in late February, if a suitable site is found.
Six parolees from the center have been arrested in Alhambra since May 1, officials said.
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