Icebreaker:
Icebreaker # 1: What does public accountability and transparency mean to you?
-Name (District): unlisted
Accountability to me at this time means to work together to help build a better community. The transparency means for us to keep the doors open to all designs of unity and working together with all nations and remapping the laws for areas with problems and broken homes. Also working on jobs without felony checks at least with reasoning for decision.
-Name (District): unlisted
Meetings should be informative. Everyone should follow certain ground rules and communication before any implementations moving forward take place. Keep up to date information available to the community.
-Name (District): unlisted
Public accountability includes a commission that includes impacted community members. It means transparency around Department budget with input from the commission and an accountability for outcomes for Department programs. Transparency means meaningful powers to compel department production, unlimited access to facilities and the requirement for public responses and data sharing by the department.
-Name (District): unlisted
Accountability is a mechanism for holding the Probation Department to a mission that reduces system contact, addresses racial and ethnic disparities while promoting public safety through investing in communities and community based supports. Transparency is a mechanism for maximizing public access to a maximal amount of data and information about department practices and outcomes and facilitating public engagement with and recommendations about the current reality.
-Name (District): unlisted
Nothing without the ability to make changes if transparency is shown to be negative. The public’s ability to hold parties accountable is necessary to mitigate problems that will arise in the attempt to be transparent.
-Name (District): unlisted
Results based community informed outcomes that are creating a measurable difference for youth BEFORE they are criminalized through the justice system. This is inclusive of youth voices, direct service providers and the visible leadership from county supervisors.
-Jacob J. (Youth Justice Coalition)
What it means is to close jails down, the community should be able to make the budget, Probation and youth should be able to work with each other. Nothing to be hidden in the process of wording. The ability for the community to never be blind sighted.
-Phal Suk. (Youth4justice.org) phal.suk@youth4justice.org
-The Probation Oversight Commission should include members who have been directly impacted by the system, including those with felony records.
-The Commission should have control of the Probation Department’s budget.
-The POC should have full access, unannounced to all facilities and authority to compel the release of information and documents from Probation.
-The POC should have unfettered access to the complaint process and be charged with complaint oversight, including decisions and outcomes.
-The POC should have full oversight over all training of Probation staff with authority to design a training program that involves community members giving the training, including those with felony records.
-Zahria Thomas (JC 1)
To me public accountability looks like the public holding themselves accountable. Transparency looks like being able to know what goes on in the community, Probation to know how many people are on probation and how many people need help in the community.
-Cam’Ron George (YJC) 818-770-6843 (This person has another feedback from district 2 so I assumed he is from district 2).
We should hold our PO accountable by helping us look for jobs to help us stay out of jail. They should help us become what we want to become in life instead of being too quick to throw us back into jail. They can help me by giving me tudoring. By checking on me because they believe in me not just because it is their job.
-Darlene Hunt (Coco + NCNW)
Giving trust to the public that you are being fair to all. Not being dishonest.
-Berklee Donavan (District 2)
Accountability and Transparency is when the Probation Department treats its clients with respect and evidence based practices to assist them in making a change in their lives. Then, allowing the public to know of these practices and provide feedback to the department.
-Name (District): unlisted
Means thinking what is best for those directly impacted by decisions and how to meet their needs without having sneaky, behind the scenes motives.
-Dominique Davis (All of us or None):
Public accountability means being held accountable for when mistakes are made they are corrected and noted and not pushed to the side. For example when it comes to juveniles, they should not be taken in for non-violent crimes but counseled. When probation clients are tested and are found dirty, they should be rehabilitated in a drug program and not violated. Probation should focus on truly rehabilitating clients rather than simply locking them up. Probation clients need employment, housing, healthy and educational stability to truly be rehabilitated.
Transparency to me means a clear understanding, a clear vision and a clear message to truly rehabilitate, rebuild and reconnect those formerly incarcerated with their community, themselves and their family.
-Name (District): unlisted
Accountability and transparency looks like public access to all documents that relate to any pertinent matters. Develop a process to report incidents to neutral based organization. Establish a subpoena and investigative process.
-Name (District): unlisted
Having the ability to access visual evidence to any violent incidents that occurred against the citizen or inmate. Increase public accountability and transparency for probation.
-Edson Rufeno (District not listed)
Things that happen in camp that youth can’t get out to the public.
-Name (District): unlisted
Public Accountability means gratitude, grace, clear expectations and expected outcomes. Solution oriented. Transparency should be non-judgmental, a willingness to receive constructive criticism, love, patience and grace.
-Name (District): unlisted
Public administration listening to and implementing the needs of the community being served.
-Elizabeth Lopez (District 1)
Clearly inform and engage community stakeholders and ensure that the process is defined and always available for the public to consume. Also, it represents a means for empowerment and growth for communities. Also clear and measurable systems to balance goals, expectations, and outcomes (next steps, timely, empathetic process, recognizing the past/history, equitable approaches.
-Name (District): unlisted
Agenda and goals set o be driven by community. Information communicated to the public in a clear and accessible way.
-Name (District): unlisted
It looks like meetings and sessions where different stakeholders regularly come together to discuss difficult issues, topics and potential solutions. It is also a place where people with opposing viewpoints have intentional discussion about why certain beliefs are helpful and compromise can be reached after productive discussions.
-Name (District): unlisted
Public Accountability to me means helping my community out when there is a need that needs to be met. No matter the gender or sexual orientation of someone, you and I should always be ready to lend a helping hand.
-Olivia Mitchell (District #2)
Small groups
-Chris (Coco) District: unlisted
Willing to allow the community to be a part of the process and answer to the community for its actions or lack of actions. Transparency should include nothing hidden in the process or the language and wording.
-Robert Crain, District: unlisted
Upholding the obligation of public service; service comes in different forms, but all service without measurable levels of empathy and without respect to environmental circumstance is a disservice to those seeking transparency, meaning that if the waters are muddy who can SEE!
-Zoe (PRC) District: unlisted
It means less money spent on outcomes that don’t help on suppression and incarceration and more on education and economic transportation and health supports at the community level. It also means remedies for abuses of power.
-The Hurt Help Group, (D)
Please focus more on Intervention, Prevention and Reentry.
-Selena from All Of Us Or None (District 4)
This means nothing being hidden, example: no closed door meetings. The availability that we are welcome to the table and accepted.
-Phillip Lester (ARC) District: Unlisted
Holding people accountbile for violation of law without exceeding the limits of reasonable punishment and probation and allocate more funds towards community based supervision.
Icebreaker # 2: How would meaningful community engagement between you and the POC feel?
-Name (District): unlisted
Engaging.
-Name (District): unlisted
Community Engagement needs to reflect the community’s desire to eliminate the trauma caused by the existing Probation culture.
-Jacob J. (Youth Justice Coalition)
It sounds like we could go further than that.
-Phal Suk. (Youth4justice.org) phal.suk@youth4justice.org
Engagement should feel like a two-way conversation.
-Darlene Hunt (Coco + NCNW)
Increase trust in the community. We work together to improve in communicating and understanding each other.
-Berklee Donavan (District 2)
Community Engagement is the Probation Department engaging with their clients and community organizations who provide feedback and address the issues to continue to offer the best service.
-Name (District): unlisted
Safe, fair and unbiased. Like a democracy working as it should.
-Name (District): unlisted
Meaningful community engagement between the POC and me would have me feeling updated and included and it would also form community.
-Edson Rufeno (District not listed)
They are engaged in an active conversation and actually care for the youth in the community.
-Name (District): unlisted
A feeling of being heard, being appreciated and a mutually satisfying solution or a commitment to communicating through differences.
-Name (District): unlisted
Meaningful engagement would be through more community dialogues such as the one tonight, community based research agencies and with youth and adults in the probation system. Engagement with not just community leaders but also youth and adults served by those organizations and programs.
-Elizabeth Lopez (District 1)
A space for dialogue, empathetic process, responsive, equitable – equity promoting approaches.
-Name (District): unlisted
Willing to listen. Not afraid of disagreement. This can bring change if able to strategize task through solution.
-Name (District): unlisted
I feel the engagement work beng fulfilling for the POC, The Hurt Help Group, and the clients of POC t cut down the recidivision rate.
-Olivia Mitchell (District #2)
Quarterly Saturday/Sunday meetings. Bi-Monthly evening meetings. Monthly daytime meetings. Reports of success. Positive life chances. Education, jobs and housing.
-Robert Crain, District: unlisted
Empathetic communication
-Name (District): unlisted
Members of the POC to be members of the community that are system-impacted and have experience with probation. POC to treat community members as the true experts and not act like absolute authority. Complaints to be taken seriously and not just brushed off.
-Phillip Lester (ARC) District: Unlisted
Open and neutral.
Community Engagement/Transparency:
Q1: What kind of community engagement gives everyday residents and stakeholders the power to address issues impacting Departmental policy/practice or the impacts of those policies/practices on the community?
-Vernita Johnson (District 2)
Informative, educational, be able to inform your neighbors about Probation Reform.
-Name Unlisted, (District 3)
Real membership of impacted community members on the commission with real powers of investigation, budget and policy shaping and accountability mechanisms.
-Coach Ron (District): unlisted
That we have open meetings in the community.
-Cam’Ron, George (YJC) District 2
We should pass for more positive activities. We should talk one on one to our PO and they should get where we come from.
-(A New Way of Life) District: Unlisted
-Timing, location of meeting? Census
-How will the public be informed? Canvassing, TV, Social Media, Word of Mouth.
-What do the meetings look like? Social event
-For people who can’t make it, how can their voices be heard?
-Can they turn in comments?
-Need large space to accommodate ALL of the community.
Another avenue to contact the department to make a complaint is to have a panel of people to answer, possibly like the POC could answer certain levels of complaintsand through the Brown Act hold a community meeting to address.
Accessibility.
-Selena from All Of Us Or None (District 4)
Community meetings, a way to have everyone speak their mind. A large platform where everyone has a chance to develop into a community leader. Input and output from the community and timely access to ideas from youth advisory board/something for the youth.
-Name: Unlisted (District 2)
Utilize existing community centers to inform community of policy/practices information (i.e. women of Watts, Watts healthcare center). Build out their capacity by establishing a partnership with the department.
-Name: Unlisted (District 2)
-Provide materials with plenty of time and in an accessible language as well as multiple languages. Use video, media, etc…
-Don’t come to meetings with decision already made, and be transparent about decision making processes
-Lots of accessible information about the budget and evaluation of programs as well as comparison to what is and what is not being invested in.
-Transparency about pretirial decision making if applicable.
-Phillip Lester (ARC) District: Unlisted
Community members who are qualified should be considered to be members of the community that their interest is at hand/that you are directly involved.
Q2: What kind of principles, practices, or values does the POC need to embrace to ensure robust community engagement is more than a list of recommendations and actual mission of the POC? Think: collaboration, process, transparency, accessibility, etc…
-Vernita Johnson (District 2)
Phone calls, neighborhood block checks
-Coach Ron (District): unlisted
To go on walking tour of the homeless encampments and world famous Skid Row.
-Name Unlisted, (District 3)
POC needs dedicated spaces and conducts for substantive community input and leadership on policies. POC must also be responsive to and accountable to community input and it must hold the department to these same standards.
-Cam’Ron, George (YJC)
Having more access with their money. They should treat us equally instead of just trying to drug test us and see what we have in us.
-A New Way of Life, District: unlisted
Principle – empathy, trustworthiness, honesty, integrity, accessibility commitment to listening to new ideas.
Practices – more networking, being thoughtful of all the needs of the community, making sure they are hearing from diverse voices. Accessibility.
Values – honesty, value the opinions of all those heard and unable to be heard directly (example: children)
-Name, District: unlisted
Groups like SCYEA
-Name: Unlisted (District 2)
Strong community relations
Practices: go into the community to hear the concerns of residents/youth, allow for those residents to also identify the solution to address the problem.
Principle: Ensure that there is proper representation of members in the POC that are former/current probationers and family members.
-Name: Unlisted (District 2)
-Recognize historic harm.
-Principles, practices, values – understand trauma and substance abuse
-Transparent processes
-Accessible materials
-Keep impacted people at center of solutions.
Practices: Give POC meaningful power
-Diverse community representation with impacted people
Values: Community- a commitment to understanding that a truly safe community will have a significantly smaller Probation department.
-Phillip Lester (ARC) District: Unlisted
The community members voice should be the primary consideration and position
Mission Statement:
Q3: What do better outcomes for juveniles mean to you?
Think: Education outcomes/standards, services and supports, etc…
-Name (District): unlisted
Allowing opportunities for offenders to obtain jobs and housing. A network that helps bridge the gap.
-Name (District): unlisted
Stop using terms such as “Offenders” and “Juveniles” when county officials refer to young people convicted of crimes. We must reduce not only the physical but also the psychological barriers to reintegration. Juvenile is a correctional term.
-Name Unlisted, (District 3)
Reducing/ending juvenile contact. Reducing disparate social impact.
-Cam’Ron, George (YJC) District 2
I would like it if juveniles get more activities like fostering jobs and resources. I want to succeed in life. Constructing a youth center.
-Alfred McCurchin, (District 8)
To deal with every youth on the principle of a human being and not on the basis of color.
-A New Way of Life, District: unlisted
-More education opportunities
-Counseling, one on one therapy
-More recreational opportunities
-Mentor programs
-Community outreach programs
-Job readiness
-Substance abuse counseling
-Homelessness issue addressed
-What is being done to insure a healthy transition back into society after incarceration.
-Placement close to family
-Name: Unlisted (District 2)
-Staying with their families when it’s a healthy environment.
-Education that adequately prepares youth for college and meaningful career.
-Addressing trauma that leads to crime/violence
-Youth can connect with healthy activities like music, arts and sports.
-Job development with access to transportation
-Phillip Lester (ARC) District: Unlisted
Reform: Education, opportunity for meaningful and gainful employment. Juveniles should not be criminalized and punished extremely harshly for infractions of the law. Juveniles should be considered and treated like juveniles as opposed to adult and career criminals.
-Supportive, trusted adults and larger communities.
-Schools and teachers that care and challenge with real critical learning to take place.
-Opportunities for fun and the chance to be kids without worrying about health and safety of themselves and loved ones.
-Rehabilitative programs that treat the whole and get to the root when problems do arise.
-NOT being separated from families and communities.
-NO isolation.
Q4: What do better outcomes for adults mean to you?
Think: Work opportunities, training, education/advanced education, etc…
-Name Unlisted, (District 3)
Reducing/ending adult contact. Reducing disparate social impact.
-Cam’Ron, George (YJC) District 2
Adults want jobs. They want to come out of jail and change their life.
-A New Way of Life, District: unlisted
-Having access to services
-Counseling
-Better standards on probation and parole
-Shouldn’t be able to be violated for petty things
-Address the homelessness issue
-What is being done to ensure a healthy transition back into society after incarceration?
-Address mental health issues
-Counseling and therapy
-Substance abuse issues
-Name: Unlisted (District 2)
Health (Physical and mental), economic stability, healthy housing, career education, addiction treatment
-Phillip Lester (ARC) District: Unlisted
Adults: Reentry is key! At the reentry level adults need social support, counseling, employment work shops and career building guides.
Q5: What does the Probation Oversight Commission need to monitor the Probation Department?
-Vernita Johnson (District 2)
Increase accountability and transparency
-Prioritize minimizing system contact
-Address racial and ethnic disparities
-Prioritize community based supervision and avoiding incarceration.
-Replace need for budget transparency and accountability and policy setting and engagement
-Specifically address public engagement and mandate it to be robust
-Specifically address role of investigatory power.
-State POC’s role in holding department accountable to its mission and vision once developed.
-Name Unlisted, (District 3)
Subpoena power to compel document and data productions must live with POC. POC must be able to direct investigations and inspect facilities unannounced. POC must have budget oversight and share source allocations powers. POC must have more than “Advisory” power over policies.
-Name Unlisted, (District 3)
POC has a duty to translate the Probation budget into understandable digested formats. Reports that can trust spending. The duty should be to report the number of people incarcerated, training, stray dogs vs youth development as well as other departments. Define real measurable goals. What are the consequences when goals aren’t met? Can the POC help drive real-time solutions?
-Alfred McCurchin, (District 8)
To adopt policies to the changing needs of the community.
-Name: Unlisted, (District 2)
Please make sure community is involved to help with the process, also put some community members on the board to help with regulations.
-A New Way of Life, District: unlisted
-The POC should better inform the public of what is being monitored by them over the Probation Department.
-Should give it enough resources to do its job.
-Name: Unlisted (District 2)
-Subpoena power – regular reporting on budget, outcomes, with an eye to evidence based practices and addressing equity.
-Access to positive examples from other places.
-A mandate to include impacted people, with support for their meaningful participation.
-Phillip Lester (ARC) District: Unlisted
Resources and community involvement at every level. The community should not be represented in the absence of community members. Community engagement focus should be to keep the community in the loop of all issues and decisions.
Q6: What must change?
Think: Training, resource needs, outcomes, family voice and choice in service delivery, etc…
-Vernita Johnson (District 2)
Hear our voices. Keep us informed on how juveniles and adults. Motivate, help and support.
-Name unlisted (District 8)
Probation Department must make sure that Probation Officers take time to listen to clients and understand their situation and the reason why a client was incarcerated. Officers need more training.
-Alfred McCurchin, (District 8)
New hiring practices. Hire probation officers who really care about the youth, knowing that the youth are the leaders of tomorrow.
-Name: Unlisted, (District 2)
Inclusion, inclusion, inclusion!
-A New Way of Life, District: unlisted
-Everyone holding a seat must be equally committed to doing the job.
-The head of Probation should be elected.
-POC members should be elected.
-Mutual respect.
-Selena from All Of Us Or None (District 4)
The ways or laws that doesn’t allow system impacted people on the commission.
-Name: Unlisted (District 2)
-Meaningful/Independent complain process.
-Accountibility if abuse in activities occur
-More money to services and less to probation. Reduce the size and scope of the department.
Icebreaker:
Icebreaker # 1: What does public accountability and transparency mean to you?
-Mark Ridley Thomas (District 2)
The persons who read the recommendations need to be transparent when getting those requests and finalize time for response.
-Berklee Donavan (District 2)
Values of honesty, transparency, trust, integrity. Collaboration with the justice – involved community (including the probationers and youth). The community’s voice should be treated as the experts.
-Name: Kim McGill Youth Justice Coalition, District: 2
Public Accountability:
-Input, review and recommendations to BOS of probation policy and budget.
-Subpoena power, independent counsel for the POC.
-POC can close facilities as needed.
-POC creates and administers complain process. Disband OMBUDS – NAUS office at probation.
Transparency:
-POC has full unannounced access to juvenile halls, camps and probation area office. Able to speak to youth and families.
-Release data monthly on who’s on probation- field and facilities.
-Chief selected with community input and job description.
-SB 1421
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
POC to ensure public access to information and engage the community including hosting town halls and forums. Provide a forum for submission of complaints by residents and stakeholders.
-Name: Unlisted, (District 4)
Transparency should include language that is easy to understand and the thing that the last young lady said should be implemented. She really knows how transparency works and what it looks like in terms of administrators, revising and budgeting, accountability of probation officers as well as young people being involved and listened to.
-Billy Houth (District 27th) representing ARC & API RISE
Public accountability and transparency means that everyone is responsible and has to be honest about issues that we (the public) encounter on a daily basis, whether the issues are homelessness, or lack of medical care for all. We must come together to address these issues in a meaningful way to find solutions together.
-Darlene Hunt (Coco & NCNW) District: Unlisted
To serve the public by providing open and effective transparency to the public. Restoring public trust and morals.
Name: Unlisted, District: Unlisted
Public accountability to me means being a part of and engaging in Town Hall meetings as a county and specifically the one that I live in. So it is fairly important to me that Vocational Rehabilitation be in practice. Transparency about the funds that are being spent correctly. The Brown Act.
-Name: Nestor Valle, District: Unlisted
My concern with accountability and transparency is that perhaps within this POC there will be room created or left for a type of advocate for the individual on probation address their issues or concerns not as part of an appeals officer but to an advocate to help address those said issues of accountability and transparency.
-Name: Da’Ron George, District: Unlisted
I feel that probation officers engage their clients as criminals of the law instead of people of society and it’s hard for our young people to change their lives if we are portrayed as a criminal. I believe that a higher being needs to change the way Probation Officers interact with their clients. Another thing is the community needs to know fully about what is going on with camps, placements etc…They make young people do community service programs instead of talking to that person to see what went wrong.
-Name: Unlisted, District: Unlisted
Accountability and transparency is both looking backwards and forwards, meaning being held responsible for transgressions and gaps in the past, much of which is described in the 2015 local audit reports and working openly and collaboratively on compliance and reform going forward. It has to involve community engagement.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 43rd
Public accountability means being held accountable for providing meaningful opportunities to all probationers for life skills, work skills development and workforce entry with equitable wages.
Meaningful community engagement feels like I’m being heard.
Icebreaker # 2: How would meaningful community engagement between you and the POC feel?
-Berklee Donavan (District 2)
Having meetings available to the public (not only in downtown) in various communities and Districts.
Formal surveys for evaluation of the POC, policies and practices presented at community meetings. Maybe in paper or online for the community to submit their feedback in a formal manner.
A membership program for the POC to ensure that it holds members of the community.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
-Voting members that reflect the impacted community
-broad access to information and data by the public.
-Institutionalized mechanisms to vet and get required approval of the budget and policies by the public.
-Accessible, formal process for investigation and resolution.
-Mandated response to community complaints.
-Name: Unlisted, (District 4)
Robust community to host regular periodic gatherings in locations and at times when community stakeholders can attend. Translators, etc…make them part of the commissions. All commission and sub commissions will provide true transparency. Legal organizations around this issue need to see if there is a mandate. The community needs to be engaged in all meetings, sub-committee meetings and the info should be available in written form. This should not just be probation making decisions, new people create new models that work.
The commission needs to be formed by people who are currently and formerly probationers. They need to be a part of the Commission. People on the commission need to know what they are talking about from the inside out, not just from the outside looking in.
-Billy Houth (District 27th) representing ARC & API RISE
I encourage that issues will be addressed in a meaningful way and work with the public to build a community where we all can feel safe and protect our youth instead of sending them behind bars.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 43rd
Meaningful community engagement feels like I’m being heard and an honest, empathetic conversation ensues until a reasonable solution to my concern is reached.
Community Engagement/Transparency:
Q1: What kind of community engagement gives everyday residents and stakeholders the power to address issues impacting Departmental policy/practice or the impacts of those policies/practices on the community?
-Name: Unlisted (District 1)
-Challenging the idea of engagement and moving towards shared power, so perhaps placing a resident or community member on the commission.
-Holding more community dialogues like the one tonight.
-Transparency in budget and budget decisions.
-Making a portion of youth development and job training to reduce recidivism for youth who continue to fall into the probation system.
-Name: Unlisted (District 1)
-Meeting people where they are at, recognizing how far people have come/history/lived experiences as it relates to the system.
-Ensuring that addressing issues that impact are centered around impacts of such departments on community , working from here to move forward , to include movements toward economic development, uplifting, jobs, career development.
-Approaches and training – humanizing certain roles (stakeholders like law enforcement) and ensuring they properly approach the public and listen.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 1
-Include Current/Former probationers/Detainees and family members on the POC.
-Require public engagement and input before POC approval of department policy and budget proposals.
-Require department to respond to POC requests/recommendations as well as to provide data and information (Enforceable with a subpoena for Documents and testimony) at public hearings.
-Phal Suk, District: 2 (phal.suk@youth4justice.rog)
-The commission should hold meetings within the community in varying geographic locations including the outskirts of the county such as Palmdale/Lancaster.
-The meetings should be held during more accessible hours or days so families and working parents can attend.
-The agenda should be open to the community to develop, not only to take input but from it.
-Complaints should be taken at hearings/town halls, in written form, i.e. complaints against staff.
-Name: Ms. Webb (Coco), District: 2
Walking through our neighborhood and talking with our neighbors about their needs and seeing how we can help each other, but also with the help of community centers like Community Coalition, GRYD, Brotherhood Crusie. They help give us information on some things.
-Name: Unlisted, District: Council District 8, Super District 2
Frequent engagements. Allow for venting.
-Selena Lopez: (District 4)
Open meetings. Training resident of the language that is used. Inform the public of the agenda and where the meetings are being held.
-Darlene Hunt (Coco & NCNW) District: Unlisted
POC come out to the community to meet with us. Have two citizens in the community as part of the POC.
-Billy Houth (District 27th) representing ARC & API RISE
Allow both parties to hold public meetings and address issues together. Investigate all complaints against law enforcement.
-Name and District: Unlisted
The community needs to build a mutual trust. This includes, but is not limited to community update meetings, stakeholder engagement in community events, schoolboard meetings and city council attendants. Involvement in local organization fundraiser is also a way to positively engage, familiarize and consult with community members. Foster community relationship building as well as transparency on budgeting items.
-Name: Community Coalition, District: Unlisted
-Open community conversation/communication
-Timely access to correct information
-Community votes/say so
-Community recommendation
-Youth engagement/Advisory board with youth.
-Name: Dominique Davis (All Of Us Or None), District: Unlisted
The Brown Act has been a law since 1953, but there are ad hawk sub-committee hearings that are not mandated to be made public. Without other representatives from communities where issues are impacted, the most or entire groups of people from the impacted communities, there will be no REAL power.
-Name: Unlisted, from (All Of Us Or None), District: Unlisted
Value the everyday life of the community. Not everyone is politically inclined. Develop the practice of mandating effective communication to the general public of all meetings “General and special” at a time significantly above the minimum time frame of notice.
-Zahria T. (YJC) District: Unlisted
Having structure in the community. I feel that it would be a little bit better if a probation officer actually tries to understand the youth instead of just keeping track on the students checking in or drug testing them. Actually finding out what the issues are. Look at the community that they are around. Be supportive.
-Name and District: Unlisted
Create and publish a client focused, forward thinking Mission, Vision and Values statement to be a living document rooted in the day to day operations of the Oversight. The Oversight is responsible to be a vehicle to engage the community, monitor reform efforts and drive better outcomes for youth and adults.
-Name and District: Unlisted
-A process to report incidences to third party community advocates and residents.
-Random check-ins from advocates in P.O. offices/case plans. Slow and steady evaluation to get it. Restorative round tables with POC, Probation Dept. and community, less Ivory Tower meetings and come down into the community.
-Name and District: Unlisted
We Are One as a Group is designed to approach community engagement that includes but is not limited to town hall meetings and community, forums, to fulfill the POC’s mandate to achieve, transparency, involve young people in the dialogue. Must have subpoena and investigation, powers to arrive at the truth of complaints and system issues. Have a sample of 90 days.
-Name: Emily Blake (Smart Justice Manager, LA Area Chamber & Member of Community Coalition), District: South LA
Create process to involve community members in implementation and decision making to strengthen work and population level changes.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 43rd
-Regular meetings, Justice more consistent
-Get to know each other better when it’s more consistent.
-Currently meets two times per month during the middle of the day.
-We could do these meetings in our communities.
-Can have more community members be part of the committees.
-More frequent and more accessible.
-Decision making process.
-Document what they are doing for the community.
-Intimate conversations that need to be had as well as a venting process. Honest empathetic conversation.
-Involving the community into the system.
Mother speaks from South LA…58 years talked about the cost of having her sons incarcerated far away, money spent sending them things, police brutality. There needs to be communication by way of departments.
Q2: What kind of principles, practices, or values does the POC need to embrace to ensure robust community engagement is more than a list of recommendations and actual mission of the POC? Think: collaboration, process, transparency, accessibility, etc…
-Name: Unlisted (District 1)
Moving away from community engagement towards shared power and allowing a position for a community member or stakeholder to actively be involved in the process as well as continued transparency. Not just one or a handful of meetings, but continued engagement even once the POC is established.
More trauma informed care.
-Name: Unlisted (District 1)
-Reporting back on process, progress, identified outcomes.
-Collaborative, open, mindful, incorporating the future well-being, successful, thriving communities.
-Values, honesty, respectful, balanced, humanizing, dignity, integrity, safe.
-Use forward thinking, cost effective systems of info sharing communications.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 1
-Reflect community including those directly impacted in POC and in Public Engagement
-Facilitate deep and meaningful engagement with the community (including in camps and halls across the county)
-Make information and data publicly available in ways that the community can access, consider and engage.
-Staff community engagement through partnerships with local community-based organizations and system-impacted people.
-Name: Unlisted (District 2)
There should be a youth advisory board, an advisory board/committee made up of those returning to the community.
Advanced notice of meetings and widespread sharing of the agenda.
Conduct more listening sessions.
Send notices to community based org.
-Olivia (District 2)
POC members to have lived experience, relatable, sympathy, empathy. A prison for rehabilitation and a focus on rehab.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
-Those most impacted have expertise on solutions.
-Collaboration is key to transparency and accountability within the community.
-Probation system contact has been disproportionately impacting communities of color and engagement should address that inequity.
-Phal Suk, District: 2 (phal.suk@youth4justice.rog)
-The POC should understand that it represents the community and it works for the community.
-If the POC may disagree with the community, it should not dismiss the idea.
-The POC should engage in dialogue and not only take comments but also have open conversations with commenters and the public.
-The POC should see itself as a resource for the community, not law enforcement or the government.
-Name: Ms. Webb (Coco), District: 2
They need to listen more and be more patient with the people, because some of them do not understand what is being passed down.
-Name: Unlisted, District: Council District 8, Super District 2
Frequent engagements. Allow for venting.
-Selena Lopez: (District 4)
Investment in people having a community point based first. Focus more so on community.
-Name: Unlisted, (District 4)
The POC needs to embrace value and the principle that seeing the job from non-probation officials, non- law enforcement officers but community groups of people who have gone through the legal system from the inside who will give a unique perspective to make sure that values and practices are just and fair. Extend the minimum notice of meetings to a longer period than 72 hours if you value participation by the community to participate in all parts of the reform process.
-Darlene Hunt (Coco & NCNW) District: Unlisted
To achieve successful collaboration with the community. All parties involved need to strive to understand the point of view of all. Religion, community organization, etc… Strategic planning is always good.
-Billy Houth (District 27th) representing ARC & API RISE
Make sure all complaints are thoroughly investigated against public officials and law enforcement. Listen to the concerns of the public to address issues.
-Name and District: Unlisted
The POC needs to recognize the historical context of policing relations/law enforcement relations. Once this is truly understood, a trauma informed approach to community policing can be formulated. There needs to be an authentic relationship that knows what it means to nurture community values of honesty, respect and protection. Impacted people need to be at the center of solutions.
-Name: Community Coalition, District: Unlisted
-Having Youth Advisory
-More youth groups like SEYEA at Community Coalition
-Name: Dominique Davis (All Of Us Or None), District: Unlisted
Principle of honesty, openness, whole hearted communication, engagement directly with the community to ensure the desired output which according to the current mission of rehabilitation and produce a functional member of society.
-Name: Unlisted, from (All Of Us Or None), District: Unlisted
Develop the practice of identifying “Local community orgs” that are organizations advocating on behalf of communities most affected by probation.
-Zahria T. (YJC) District: Unlisted
Engage with the community and more with the youth. Acknowledge the people of the community and be understanding.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 43rd
-Department that is committed to hearing the community’s experiences.
-Needs to have power
-Accept that people can change
-Raise the bar of standard of accountability
-A department that takes into account the difficulties.
-Life experience – putting people who have been in the system in positions.
-Adopt a view that the system should rehabilitate and assist people to get back on their feet.
-Opportunities should be prioritized.
Mission Statement:
Q3: What do better outcomes for juveniles mean to you?
Think: Education outcomes/standards, services and supports, etc…
-Name: Unlisted (District 1)
Youth engagement, early preventative services, trauma informed intervention reentry services, pro-social activities and opportunities. Reducing school to prison pipeline systems by reducing suspensions and expulsions especially at an early age.
-Name: Unlisted (District 1)
Successful, thriving, healthy living and community, positive trajectories defined by juveniles, empowerment, decreased or cease to exist systems of punishment, just practices around safety and promoting safety that is supportive, college graduates, wealth development and services to ensure that, building values together, pipelines to successful careers.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 1
Better outcomes mean addressing themes of minimizing system contact and incorporating prioritization of keeping those under supervision (in the community and working to address racial and ethnic disparities).
-Name: Unlisted, District: 1
Young people are safe, thriving, learning, healthy, striving for ambitious goals expected to succeed and achieving success, part of the families who have the opportunity to remain intact, part of the communities that are clean and resourced. Children are treated as children.
-Name: Kim McGill Youth Justice Coalition, District: 2
1. Every youth in LA has the right to heal, prepare for college and a career, have an affordable place for them and their family to live, walk their streets, the halls of their schools and ride public transportation without being unnecessarily stopped, searched and labeled as gang members and then added to gang databases. They deserve youth empowerment and the opportunity to live in non-gang injunction zones. All youth deserve access to a job, youth center and intervention worker. This goes for both youth and adults.
-Name: Unlisted (District 2)
Youth are able to read and are mentored or tutored to be able to keep up with school. Youth have access to mental, medical and wellness services. Youth and adults have access to non-profit organizations to connect before they are released.
-Mark Ridley Thomas (District 2)
Education, income and good advice not quick to violate probationers.
-Berklee Donavan (District 2)
EVIDENCE –BASED PRACTICES!
Example: cognitive behavioral therapy, life skills classes, Anger Management
-Educational Support
-Job Training
-Individual Therapy
-Family Reunification
-Mentorship Programs
-Substance abuse treatment
-Trauma informed care
*Less focus on incarceration and more on rehabilitative programming.
-Olivia (District 2)
High School Graduation for juveniles. Prevention, Intervention and Reentry.
-Name: Lupita (Youth 4 Justice), District: 2
A better outcome to me looks like I know the County would not keep hundreds of schools open if they can’t fill them up with students as much as they used to, so why still keep many juvenile facilities open if the data has been proven that crime has gone down. So I know they are not filling up the facility to CLOSE SOME DOWN.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
Involve the young people with more of their own dialogue. You must get to the root of their stress, worries of dealing with independence. Listen to their concerns and have mentors assigned to groups of youth.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
It makes me happy to know they now will look to try a better route and it feels good to know that someone cares for them and looks out for them. They may become encouraged to do better.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
To make a better person out of them. To maturate them to do something for themselves, let them know that they are somebody and that they can be whatever they want to be.
-Phal Suk, District: 2 (phal.suk@youth4justice.rog)
-Reduced contact with law enforcement, increased diversion.
-Non-law enforcement operated programs in the community.
-Career readiness, higher education preparation.
-Cultural and gender sensitive reports.
-Probation staff without badges and uniforms acting humanely.
-Name: Ms. Webb (Coco), District: 2
Schools designed to help them better themselves. To take the things that they know and help to bring it to life. Part time jobs or training to get them a job. Group meetings for their age group.
-Name: Unlisted, District: Council District 8, Super District 2
Inclusion in terms of being able to impact by contributing to community health.
-Coach Ron (District 4)
Prevention, intervention and Reentry. No more probation. Be authentic. Live in purpose. Parents role.
-Selena Lopez: (District 4)
Better representation. Education that meets with college programs. Better legal advice regarding charges. Stop the use of excessive force. Proper therapy care. More resources that help stop juveniles from going to jail.
-Name: Unlisted, (District 4)
Better outcomes for Juveniles means to inform juveniles of their changes, make sure their defense advocates for them and informs them of their changes. Make sure they are educated and trained so that it prepares them for higher education and their future. Stop use of excessive force (Tear gas, etc…), need staff or trauma and more group homes and to be better supervised.
-Darlene Hunt (Coco & NCNW) District: Unlisted
Implementing Juvenile Reform.
-Billy Houth (District 27th) representing ARC & API RISE
Better outcomes for juveniles means education instead of prison, better health care for all juveniles, equal school system, improve foster care homes, after school programs, gang prevention programs.
-Name and District: Unlisted
Juveniles need more opportunities to succeed. There is always a funding component added to the conversation, however if there were more programs offered for music, sports, therapy, college guidance, there would be less juvenile delinquency. I also firmly believe that parents should have access to more classes and childcare options. Take it back to a village framework.
-Name: Community Coalition, District: Unlisted
-Open community conversation/communication
To me it means that their opinions should be taken into consideration.
-Name: Unlisted, from (All of Us or None), District: Unlisted
Effective Diversion program for youth.
Name: Chris White, District: Unlisted
Better outcomes for Juveniles means providing them with the services they need to become productive citizens in the community and outside the communities.
Name: Jacob Jackson (Youth Justice Coalition), District: Unlisted
Better, education, provide money to resources like youth center for youth after school. Being able to help with jobs and to get more counseling.
Name: Unlisted, District: Unlisted
More education opportunities and mentorship. More recreation centers in the area. More counseling centers available. Drug and alcohol treatment centers.
-Name: Mandy Maldonado (Youth Justice Coalition), District: Unlisted
Better outcomes for juveniles should focus on school and to do more mindful activities to help them grow and learn from the past mistakes. They should be viewed as equal as their higher ups. Everyone deserves the best and having more positive opportunities for themselves, family, community and friends. It’s only bettering the world. If juveniles have someone to lean on, like a counselor or therapy for a better mindset.
-Name: Da’Ron George, District: Unlisted
Better outcomes for young people are the youth getting more help such as tutoring, a therapist to talk to and other services will help them very much.
-Zahria T. (YJC) District: Unlisted
Making juveniles feel comfortable even though they know the situation that they are in isn’t all that pleasant. Probationers need to hold themselves accountable.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 43rd
-Improve access to job training, entrepreneurial classes
-provide for a system that helps create meaningful options that are better earning.
-Pathways for success
-Careers – trades
-Name: Emily Blake (Smart Justice Manager, LA Chamber Community Coalition Member), District: South LA
Create systemic practices that put youth on pathways for higher education and career development.
Q4: What do better outcomes for adults mean to you?
Think: Work opportunities, training, education/advanced education, etc…
-Name: Unlisted (District 1)
Reentry services. Employment focus, adult education, technical training. Child care and parenting services or classes. Substance abuse treatment.
-Name: Unlisted (District 1)
Addressing lived experiences, efforts to reverse or take steps towards reforming how adults are treated. Opportunities for growth and development.
-Name: Unlisted (District 2)
Youth are able to read and are mentored or tutored to be able to keep up with school. Youth have access to mental, medical and wellness services. Youth and adults have access to non-profit organizations to connect before they are released.
-Mark Ridley Thomas (District 2)
Establish partnerships with the public system wide coordination to support youth/adults that is effective in preventing them. Effective communication and accessibility to family members.
-Berklee Donavan (District 2)
EVIDENCE –BASED PRACTICES!
Example: cognitive behavioral therapy, life skills classes, Anger Management
-Educational Support
-Job Training
-Individual Therapy
-Family Reunification
-Mentorship Programs
-Substance abuse treatment
-Trauma informed care
*Less focus on incarceration and more on rehabilitative programming.
-Prevention efforts within communities and schools.
-Restorative Justice practices.
SIGNIFICANT DRECREASE IN RECIDIVISM RATE!
-Name: Lupita (Youth 4 Justice), District: 2
Adults come out from lockup without driver’s license. Come out with jobs for firefighters or will have trade school in the county.
-Coach Ron (District 4)
Mentorship, JMHSA, Job Training. DARE/Just Say No. Programs in schools.
-Selena Lopez: (District 4)
More diversion programs. More mental care. Resources for when you are about to get out.
-Darlene Hunt (Coco & NCNW) District: Unlisted
Implementing adult reform.
-Name: Unlisted, (District 4)
Better outcomes for adults means they need therapy for mental health issues and not be changed for all this which only makes the cycle repeat. Cut people off of the treadmill. Real services, real care, trained staff, oversight, listen to abuse and don’t be oblivious to the lives of those in the system.
-Billy Houth (District 27th) representing ARC & API RISE
Keep DLR away from reentering programs, programs for employment, medical programs, improve mental health, career training opportunities, programs for higher education. Oversee probation and parole to make sure we have fair treatment.
-Name and District: Unlisted
Adults need community. If there were more educational opportunities, childcare and financial planning.
-Name: Unlisted, from (All of Us or None), District: Unlisted
Effective Diversion program for youth.
Name: Chris White, District: Unlisted
Better outcomes for adults is to provide them with services that allow them to receive restorative services.
Name: Jacob Jackson (Youth Justice Coalition), District: Unlisted
Be able to purchase a spot with support, and track schools in jails, juvenile halls and camps. Another outcome is to be able to go to places that aren’t permitted for adults.
Name: Unlisted, District: Unlisted
More transitional programs, more mentorship.
-Name: Mandy Maldonado (Youth Justice Coalition), District: Unlisted
Bettering outcomes for adults can be different in every case. Each person should be analyzed differently in situations of laws. My father is doing more than 15 years in prison and is almost out. Someone is this position will not come out to a real world normally. Their mentality is still trapped mixed with physically doing what you want and is possible.
-Name: Kim McGill Youth Justice Coalition, District: 2
Free public transportation, ID’s, birth certificates, Social Security cards, path to citizenship and access to resources. Jobs, treatment, housing, mental health on demand. No fees, no fine, no bail dramatically reduce jail y expanding, improving and speeding up pre-trial release and with that we could stop the jail law. . No jail in Mira Loma, use COH instead for smaller facility.
-Name: Da’Ron George, District: Unlisted
Better outcomes for adults are resources that help them with getting a job so that they could better their circumstance. Because jobs don’t like to hire people with felonies.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
Outcomes should include:
-creating employment opportunities, readiness
-reunifying families
-Educational Outcomes (Literacy, GED, etc…)
-Holistic approach to include substance abuse, mental health, housing, cognitive behavior intervention, get people thinking differently.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
When they get out of jail, have the evaluated to go into the armed services to see if they can join the army.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
Better outcomes for Adults means that adults are worth something and will do a job better to move up.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
That they have done something for themselves by making a better life for themselves.
-Phal Suk, District: 2 (phal.suk@youth4justice.rog)
-Self-help programs, transformative justice programs
-Higher education programming inside lockups
-Assistance with expungements
-Assistance with reentry supports through community partnerships without law enforcement.
-Career readiness and job placement with living maps.
-Familial contact maintenance during incarceration.
-Zahria T. (YJC) District: Unlisted
Holding each other accountable. Everyone is human and make everyone feel comfortable. Allow someone to explain themselves instead of judging them for what they have done. Look at the reason why they did it and understand why.
-Name: Ms. Webb (Coco), District: 2
Job training for better jobs, more education so that they don’t feel less than group meetings, help them work on their feelings, medical services for them, Dental work, because we don’t know how long they have been gone.
-Name: Unlisted, District: Council District 8, Super District 2
Inclusion in terms of being able to impact by contributing to community health.
Q5: What does the Probation Oversight Commission need to monitor the Probation Department?
-Vermuta Johnson Thomas (District 2)
A department that is efficient and accessible to probationers and family.
-Mark Ridley Thomas (District 2)
They need to be inclusive of community. The Probation Dept needs outsiders to be involved to oversee them and not the police policing the police.
-Coach Ron (District 4)
That people with live experience should be a part of the review process. Monitor the Probation Department.
-Berklee Donavan (District 2)
POC must monitor service implementation by probation officers. Must have community members on every level. Expect transparency about specific issues regarding treatment, budget and program implementation.
-Darlene Hunt (Coco & NCNW) District: Unlisted
Access to complete files to conduct work. Must have resources.
-Olivia (District 2)
Lived experience, Diversity. Community oriented and to look at why adults and kids go to probation.
-Billy Houth (District 27th) representing ARC & API RISE
POC needs to hire or employ non-governmental or non-enforcement personnel. Seek out non-law enforcement. Community has to have a say in every level.
-Name & District: Unlisted
Funding!!! Tracking and logs. Expense reports. Input on expenses from community.
-Name: Unlisted (District 1)
A seat for a community member or stakeholder moving away from engagement and towards shared power by replacing community members or measurable outcomes and consequences if they are not met.
-Name: Unlisted (District 1)
POC needs to monitor Probation – mezzo level staff. A community engaged manner of reporting back on outcomes and progress. Implementing a system of oversight that is structured with accountable and transparent elements, realistic goals, ability to assign and request that probation staff aren’t stagnant but held accountable and deliver on tasks and prospects. Tracking $$!
-Selena Lopez: (District 4)
Community orgs. Being watch dog for these meetings.
-Name and District: Unlisted
Subpoena power. There needs to be a clear definition of ethical practices and consequences for unethical behavior.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 1
The power to hold public hearings and subpoena documents and testimony from this department and make recommendations about policy practice and budget changes and ensure transparency and accountability (Including by exercising independent investigatory power). These should meet and exceed the powers specified in WIC-0-229-230.
-Name: Unlisted, (District 4)
The Probation Oversight Commission needs the time to make just and thoughtful decisions. The Oversight needs to continue with members of the commission having people from the community and people formerly on probation on the commission. They need to have the authority to remove ineffective unqualified Probation Department officers. Make sure Probation Department has people who know something.
-Name: Dominique Davis (All Of Us Or None), District: Unlisted
-Community organizers from impacted community as watchdogs in their community.
-Allowing people who are impacted by the system to serving on the POC.
-People who live in the county in which they are commissioning.
-Actual probation officers on the POC.
-Name: Unlisted, from (All Of Us Or None), District: Unlisted
The types of training and actions taken by the Probation Department relating to the implementation or enforcement of current and advised policies.
Name: Chris White, District: Unlisted
Investigative body that requires full disclosure with input from community based organizations.
Name: Jacob Jackson (Youth Justice Coalition), District: Unlisted
They should monitor how they treat the youth. They should also watch the hiring process.
Name: Unlisted, District: 2
Legal authority to inspection, fines and punishment.
-Name: Mandy Maldonado (Youth Justice Coalition), District: Unlisted
Each person and case is two completely different concepts. They need to monitor each case and person with love and care. No entitlement or discouragement. Focus more to community, work and school.
-Name: Nestor Valle, District: Unlisted
To create a position to address these concerns with probation department. How the advice given from POC will or will not be implemented. Perhaps creating a specific timeframe in which to answer these issues.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 1
Real Power. Adequate resources. Live data and quality research. Probation transparency. The ability to develop creative solutions when there is probation.
-Name: Da’Ron George, District: Unlisted
I think the commission should send the Probation officers into re-training class to see how to better handle the youth.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
-Oversight should be fair, equitable, diverse, commission should self-regulate.
-POC needs to have a key understanding of the functions within the department and have power to go into the department without an agenda. Goal is to create positive change and should strive to be a partner of the Probation Department.
-Needs to be a diverse group of people – educational, people from the system, law enforcement and others.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
They need to monitor recorded meetings and changes made within the probation department.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
They need to get a team of three people to come in and monitor once a month. They should have an outline of what they have come to inspect at the Probation Department and the Probation office. They need to tell them about the services that they offer their clients. Give them mental health services and housing.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
Oversight Commission needs to take time to examine what’s going on and create a plan that will work to monitor probation acts. Set a plan a make sure that it is followed. Take authority over the data. Insist that offices follow their plan. Plan their work and then work their plan. Check on Probation to see if they are following all of the rules. You must change what you are doing to another plan.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
Oversight Commission needs to be aware of what’s going on in and out of the community and the people that are supposed to monitor the outcomes of every situation that comes up in the community. The department should be careful in evaluating how to handle problems that the people are concerned about.
-Phal Suk, District: 2 (phal.suk@youth4justice.rog)
-Expenditures, spending
-Hiring, processes and denials of employment
-Staff and complaints against them.
-Facilities through unannounced visits
-Clearance denials for volunteers.
-Zahria T. (YJC) District: Unlisted
The Probation Department may need community monitoring and systemic reform.
-Name: Ms. Webb (Coco), District: 2
More classes in regards to what kinds of changes they would like to see put into place, stop overloading them with so many cases, and if needed hire more people.
-Name: Unlisted, District: Council District 8, Super District 2
The POC shall provide best supervision and rehab services designed to enhance the probationers’ potential to contribute positive efforts towards creating and sustaining healthy communities.
-Name: Unlisted, District: Unlisted
Tools (Cameras, technology) and resources (money). Authority to include access to information and data, monitor spending, access to records, subpoena power, ability to talk and communicate with other departments.
-Name: Emily Blake (Smart Justice Manager, LA Chamber Community Coalition Member), District: South LA
Ensure more spending and funds go toward what we want in our communities – investing in youth and adults returning home.
Q6: What must change?
Think: Training, resource needs, outcomes, family voice and choice in service delivery, etc…
-Vermuta Johnson Thomas (District 2)
Partner with local nonprofits to house youth without removing them from the community.
-Mark Ridley Thomas (District 2)
They need to come to the people community to have a voice in what is said or done to make the system run smoother. Work better and help the majority.
-Coach Ron (District 4)
Deal with people as human beings not based on color. Support network within communities. Recruit different standards, community organist, the people that hired.
-Berklee Donavan (District 2)
-Trauma informed probation officers
-Evidence-based practices used by probation when interacting with clients
-Family and probation voice heard
-Darlene Hunt (Coco & NCNW) District: Unlisted
The abuse to the people in the probation system.
-Olivia (District 2)
No more compensation and incentive. Educating the community.
-Billy Houth (District 27th) representing ARC & API RISE
Allow public to have a say in the appointment of probation officers. Allow public to have access to probation personnel‘s history of employment.
-Name & District: Unlisted
Programs implied rather than incarceration. Providing a forum from community resident.
-Name: Unlisted (District 1)
Funding in schools!!!!!!! Especially schools that have a high percentage of students falling into probation. Ending high suspension and expulsion rates and the school to prison pipeline is abolished and being on probation stops being the norm in underfunded, low-resourced communities and schools. Ending recidivism on probation.
-Name: Unlisted (District 1)
Training, lens, mindset, focused on futures. Youth and family voice in rebuilding process.
-Selena Lopez: (District 4)
Everything. Transparency. Resources that are in place but that aren’t working.
-Name and District: Unlisted
There must be an understanding of social histories of offenders. There also needs to be an integration of evidence-based probationary practices. This includes, but is not limited to necessary use of force, trauma informed interactions, verbal de-escalation.
-Name: Community Coalition, District: Unlisted
The whole system needs to change their negative views of criminals. If you steel a basic necessity then resources should be given. “If you shape the future they should be able to make and be included in decisions”.
-Name: Unlisted, District: Unlisted
Everyone should get a second chance depending on the crime you commit. Stealing food, clothes or water should not be decided by giving jail time or putting it on your permanent record. At the end of the day it was done for a reason and you can never tell what the person is going through. Everyone should have the same change.
-Name: Dominique Davis (All Of Us Or None), District: Unlisted
Mission Statement of POC ideas:
-Advise the Board of Probation in ways to best serve the community in producing reformed citizens who are an asset to not only their community but to the world.
-Name: Unlisted, from (All of Us or None), District: Unlisted
Mission: To foster greater local community self-advocacy and determination through specific oversight of Probation Operational Policy. Secure identifiable reforms from local community and advocate reforms that affect their immediate communities and impact the broader communities including those within county and state justice facilities under the Department’s supervision. Improve transparency and public accountability of the department.
Name: Chris White, District: Unlisted
Mission Statement: We the Oversight Committee are committed to serving our Juvenile and Adult community by providing proper oversight and responsibility to our clients and our community.
No more of same old, same old. Must have community involvement. Be committed to community involvement.
Name: Jacob Jackson (Youth Justice Coalition), District: Unlisted
The way that the officers are trained to handle the youth. They need to change their interaction with the youth. Being able to listen to the youth and family stories or how they are affected.
Name: Unlisted, District: 6
Recruitment. Training at all levels on services available and train community agencies.
-Name: Mandy Maldonado (Youth Justice Coalition), District: Unlisted
Change should take place with laws first. Better mindset, we are all one. Protect and serve with more love and care. Training.
-Name: Nestor Valle, District: Unlisted
More of an attempt to engage families of probationers. As the old saying goes “It takes a village”. Again make available programs to foster success. Specifically more education. Perhaps for adults making attending a trade tech or community college course a requirement.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 1
The will to make the changes, not just the mechanisms. The probation department needs to actually be held accountable by this body. There needs to be measurable markers and consequences if they are not met like any functioning business.
-Name: Unlisted, District: 2
The people have a voice and should be heard. Listen and communicate with people so they can come together. Mission Statement: Finalize a timeline at least within 90 days with an answer.
-Phal Suk, District: 2 (phal.suk@youth4justice.rog)
-How probation staff is trained.
-They should not act as law enforcement
-The department needs to be downsized.
-The department’s mission should return to the historical inception of supports, not suppression.
-The department should not collaborate with other LEAs, including ICE.
-Name and District: Unlisted
Probation officers must be educated to cultural differences so judges won’t get reports that stereotype juveniles and adults who are going before court are falsely portrayed which destroys lives.
-Zahria T. (YJC) District: Unlisted
Everything! How people are being treated and how the police department responds to the meeting or treats the community after a tragic incident.
-Name: Unlisted, District: Council District 8, Super District 2
The relationship between the public and the probation department.
-Name: Unlisted, District: Unlisted
Mission Statement List:
-Needs to include the voices of people who have been impacted.
-Minimizing systems contacting, making Diversion and treatment central.
-Strive to achieve accessibilities
-Board will remain accountable and responsive to the communities
-Investigative power/subpoena power.
The Mission of the POC is ________
Its responsibility is to ____________
Because in order to ______________
We commit to __________________
In order to _____________________
-Name: Emily Blake (Smart Justice Manager, LA Area Chamber & Member of Community Coalition), District: South LA
Create cross sector collaborative of stakeholders with collective responsibility for justice outcomes. End system of fear, oppression harming communities and establish system of love, support, connection to community results/population level change. Leverage collective impact framework for sustainable systemic change.
-Name:K Alicie (Community Coalition), District: Unlisted
People with high self-esteem that know how to work with kids to make sure they don’t go back to the system which is bad for the community.