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Los Angeles County Approves $444,000 in Settlements for Sexual Assaults by County Employees

Loaded on June 15, 2011 published in Prison Legal News June, 2011, page 31
Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Assault by Police, Juvenile Prisons. Location: California.
On September 29, 2010, the Office of the County Counsel (OCC) for Los Angeles County, California recommended a $199,000 settlement of a claim alleging that a Los Angeles County Probation Department employee had sexually assaulted a teenage boy. In an unrelated case, the OCC recommended a settlement of $245,000 in …

 

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