LOS ANGELES : Juvenile Crime-Prevention Program Given Reprieve
A crime-prevention program for juvenile probationers, which was to be dropped from 11 Los Angeles Unified School District high schools because of budget cutbacks, will continue indefinitely while grant money is sought to pay its costs, an official said.
Nine officers assigned to probation’s school-crime suppression program had been scheduled for reassignment this month for lack of $360,000 for the district’s share of program costs. The program has provided supervision and counseling for probationers with criminal records at Eastside, South-Central and Central City high schools.
County Chief Probation Officer Barry Nidorf said he decided to leave the deputies in place after assurances that the district will seek grant money to pay for the program.
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