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Metropolitan News-Enterprise
Monday, May 16, 2016
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Espinoza to Leave Court for Mental Health Post
By a MetNews Staff Writer
—AP PETER ESPINOZA Superior Court Judge |
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza will be leaving the court to become director of the Los Angeles County Office of Diversion and Reentry, a county spokesperson confirmed Friday.
The spokesperson said Dr. Mitchell Katz, head of the county’s Department of Health Services, had chosen Espinoza, 63, as the first permanent head of the agency, which was created last year and has been jointly overseen by DHS and District Attorney’s Office officials.
The agency, which is to be funded at the rate of $10 million annually, was created pursuant to a motion by Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas and Sheila Kuehl, who credited a report by District Attorney Jackie Lacey that addressed the challenges of releasing mentally ill low-level offenders f