Probation reforms ordered

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to take a series of steps to help the new chief probation officer reform the long-troubled Probabtion Department.Troy Anderson in the Daily News.

The vote gives newly appointed Los Angeles County Chief Probation Officer Donald Blevins maximum flexibility to hire the best possible management team - including people from outside the department - to reform the 6,000-member department that oversees 80,000 youth and adult probationers in the county.

"The clear message from the Board of Supervisors is that I clean up this department and these motions will assist me in accomplishing that," Blevins said.