Government,
Criminal
Jan. 29, 2018
LA public defenders need a qualified leader
Clara Shortridge Foltz must be spinning in her grave realizing that the Board of Supervisors in 1913 was far more enlightened than the current cast of characters in 2018.
It is astonishing and confounding that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has failed miserably to identify a fully qualified experienced manager and leader in the field of defense of children and adults who are accused in criminal cases to be the public defender of Los Angeles County.
The history leading to the establishment of the office should be instructive. In the early 1900s, Clara Shortridge Foltz was a woman raising f...
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