July 24: "Los Angeles County beat expectations when it managed to move 274 youth to the newly renovated Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey on a narrow two-month schedule, but now the county has an even more momentous task before it: keeping Los Padrinos from getting shut down, too. The recent discovery of a gun on site just days after youth moved in and the poor conditions witnessed by visitors over the weekend suggest the move hasn’t resolved many of the deficiencies that forced the state to shutter Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar and Central Juvenile Hall in Lincoln Heights. The Probation Department declined to answer questions about the firearm found on Friday, July 21, or its origins, and would only provide a statement indicating that the gun was found in “an area accessible only to staff.”

https://www.ocregister.com/2023/07/24/early-troubles-plague-newly-reopened-los-padrinos-juvenile-hall/

July 28: "Over a dozen inmates may have allegedly escaped from a Los Angeles County juvenile facility, a source tells FOX 11. The Downey Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department responded to a call from the Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey late Friday night. A source told FOX 11 that a group of inmates tried to leave the juvenile facility, with some of the juveniles trying to scale the facility's walls. At least one of the inmates trying to escape was brought back to custody, the source told FOX 11."

https://www.foxla.com/news/over-a-dozen-inmates-escape-from-la-county-juvenile-facility-source-tells-fox-11