L.A. County to Review Five Years of Child Deaths

By Elizabeth Green

In a recent Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting, the supervisors grappled with the contentious issue of how to fund a homelessness initiative before hearing a brief presentation about the county’s child protection efforts.

After more than four hours of public comment, Los Angeles County CEO Sachi Hamai finally delivered a presentation to the board about her office’s progress on priorities established in the previous year, concluding with an outline of the last year’s activities around child protection in the county.

A primary achievement Hamai highlighted was the creation of the Office of Child Protection (OCP), headed by Judge Michael Nash, who joined Hamai in front of the board.

Other milestones included a child protection strategic plan that the county is finalizing, its work on linking county and community partners around common goals for a county-wide prevention plan and a plan to review the last five years of child death and critical incident reports within the Department of Child and Family Services.

“We’re very busy, on the initiatives that were noted by the CEO and a number of other initiatives, some of which have been generated by the Board of Supervisors,” Nash said. “I think you’re going to have plenty of opportunities in the future to hear a lot more from us.”

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