COURT IN ORDER IN LANCASTER; SHERIFF'S STATION CONVERTED INTO YOUTH-TRIAL SITE.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer The watch commander's office is now a public waiting room, a kitchen is a bathroom, and what once was part of a parking lot is now a courtroom. Through a $1.65 million remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure. bone remodeling effort, the former Lancaster sheriff's station and eight modular trailers provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. have been turned into a detective bureau-juvenile court complex. ``We have been able to give the taxpayers one of the greatest values for their dollars I've seen in a long, long time,'' said Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
The courthouse and sheriff's offices, at 1010 W. Ave. J, were dedicated Monday in a ceremony that included Sheriff Sherman Block, Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San , presiding Superior Court Judge Robert Parkin parkin Noun Brit a moist spicy ginger cake usually containing oatmeal [origin unknown] , presiding Juvenile Court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial Judge Michael Nash, Mayor Frank Roberts and fellow City Council members Henry Hearns and Deborah Shelton. The former sheriff's station now houses detectives from the Juvenile Investigations Bureau, Forgery/Fraud Detail, Arson/Explosives Detail, Homicide Bureau and Special Investigations Bureau. There are two juvenile courtrooms and space for the offices of the County Counsel, Probation Department, and Department of Children and Family Services. The court portion of the complex will open in September. Workers still need to install some computer lines and then it is a matter of providing a period of time to notify families that their cases will be heard in Lancaster rather than in Monterey Park, court officials said. ``This court will service this community better than it ever has,'' Nash said. The two new courtrooms will replace a dependency court that opened three years ago after a heavy lobbying campaign by community leaders. Since July 1995, that court has received no new cases because of an already heavy caseload case·load n. The number of cases handled in a given period, as by an attorney or by a clinic or social services agency. caseload Noun and because court officials consider the facility - a former jury deliberation room, 14 feet by 21 feet - inadequate. The court supervises children who were made court wards because of abuse or neglect. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (color) Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich and Sheriff Sherman Block tour a new Lancaster court complex Monday. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News |
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