Los Angeles County has partially reopened Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar and moved 39 youths from the troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall to the facility without permission from the state regulatory board that closed Nidorf in 2023.

Nidorf has not passed a new inspection from the Board of State and Community Corrections since its shuttering and, under state law, is prohibited from being used to house the type of detainees that Los Angeles County has now moved in.

“The BSCC did not approve the move,” said Jana Sanford-Miller, the spokesperson for the BSCC. “The Board has not changed its determination that the juvenile hall is unsuitable for the housing of predisposition youth.”

All 39 youths moved to Nidorf qualify as predisposition, meaning they are accused of crimes but have n

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