The Youth Justice Coalition has heard from two reliable sources that LA County Probation Chief Jerry Powers announced to other probation chiefs on Friday that he was going to resign, and also that his resignation could be announced today.
Powers has been under investigation by the media and by a law firm hired by the LA County Supervisors that he allegedly hired a woman who he was also having a relationship with, violating county laws regarding hiring your
own partners and family members for a position you supervise. Ironically, Powers was brought into LA to clean up the department’s messy hiring practices.
County Supervisors and The LA Times received an anonymous letter
stating that “Powers had a romantic relationship with his top administrative deputy, Kym Renner.” The letter also contained copies of receipts for flowers and messages “professing his love that were allegedly sent by Powers to Renner before and after her 2013 hiring.”
FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES, WE WANT TO USE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP PICK THE NEXT
PROBATION CHIEF AND TO PUSH FOR GREATER COMMUNITY OVERSIGHT AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE
RUNNING OF THE DEPARTMENT.
Take a few minutes to tell us HOW the new chief should be selected and WHAT they should work on:
www.surveymonkey.com/r/PWW32MV
LA COUNTY PROBATION HAS BEEN NOTORIOUS:
1. For treating youth, families and community based organizations as incompetent and unnecessary;
2. For locking up more youth than any other jurisdiction in the world and maintainnig unfair practices that lead to
disproportionate contact for youth of color;
3. For maintaining juvenile halls and camps that are run down and inhumane – including continued use of solitary
confinement and room isolation; as well as for
4. Taking money intended for community based alternatives to incarceration and re-entry services, and spending it
instead on expanding Probation staff – even most recently planning a move of $22 million for community programs
to pay for Probation officers in junior high schools to work as “counselors.”
For all these reasons and more – PICK YOUR CHIEF! Thank you!!
stating that “Powers had a romantic relationship with his top administrative deputy, Kym Renner.” The letter also contained copies of receipts for flowers and messages “professing his love that were allegedly sent by Powers to Renner before and after her 2013 hiring.”
FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES, WE WANT TO USE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP PICK THE NEXT
PROBATION CHIEF AND TO PUSH FOR GREATER COMMUNITY OVERSIGHT AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE
RUNNING OF THE DEPARTMENT.
Take a few minutes to tell us HOW the new chief should be selected and WHAT they should work on:
www.surveymonkey.com/r/PWW32MV
LA COUNTY PROBATION HAS BEEN NOTORIOUS:
1. For treating youth, families and community based organizations as incompetent and unnecessary;
2. For locking up more youth than any other jurisdiction in the world and maintainnig unfair practices that lead to
disproportionate contact for youth of color;
3. For maintaining juvenile halls and camps that are run down and inhumane – including continued use of solitary
confinement and room isolation; as well as for
4. Taking money intended for community based alternatives to incarceration and re-entry services, and spending it
instead on expanding Probation staff – even most recently planning a move of $22 million for community programs
to pay for Probation officers in junior high schools to work as “counselors.”
For all these reasons and more – PICK YOUR CHIEF! Thank you!!