Los Angeles County leaders are once again scrambling to stem the flow of illicit drugs into the county’s troubled juvenile halls.
After nine people were rushed to the hospital last week following suspected drug exposure at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, county supervisors asked the probation department Tuesday to ramp up their contraband crackdown.
Supervisors voted 4-0 to have the department install “airport-style body scanners” in the two halls, improve the quality of their drug-sniffing dogs and try and cancel their contract with Student Nest, a Fresno-based tutoring company whose employee was recently charged with bringing 170 Xanax pills into Los Padrinos. Supervisor Holly Mitchell abstained from the vote…