A lawsuit by the former Los Angeles County Probation Department chief alleging he was terminated for coming forward about staffing shortages should be dismissed because the problems he was hired to fix instead “persisted and metastasized,” county attorneys argue in court papers filed Monday.

Adolfo Gonzales was fired in March 2023. In his Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit brought 11 months later, Gonzales contends he “candidly reported to … (Board of State and Community Corrections) inspectors” that there were staffing shortages in the Probation Department that violated state regulations and mandates.

Thereafter, the BSCC issued an audit report critical of juvenile halls based, in part, on the disclosures Gonzales made to the BSCC, which demanded corrective action to be taken to address

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