The state officials were accompanied by county lawyers, including Rodrigo Castro-Silva, who until recently was L.A County’s interim inspector general. Before returning to his previous job as a senior member of the L.A. county counsel’s office, Castro-Silva had taken an interest in juvenile detention issues, testifying before the county Probation Reform and Implementation Team. Earlier this year, staff from the inspector general’s office documented what they said was an excessive use of pepper spray by detention officers inside the juvenile halls.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 23, 2019 23:01 UTC