CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 28, 2007 | Bob Pool, Times Staff Writer
They built Los Angeles' most modern jail and then locked the place shut and threw away the key. That is the assertion of a Los Angeles County civil grand jury, which is demanding to know why a lockup in Chatsworth sits unoccupied as other county jails are releasing prisoners early because of overcrowding. "State of the art" cells engineered to accommodate 350 prisoners sit unused beneath the Chatsworth Courthouse, jurors said.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 10, 2003 | Hanah Cho, Times Staff Writer
The Los Angeles County Superior Court is considering transferring criminal cases from the Chatsworth courthouse and closing its lockup, in an effort to cope with a $57-million shortfall for this year. Closing the lockup would save about $1 million in security costs annually, court officials said last week. Also, courthouses in Monrovia and Culver City may be closed or converted into customer service centers for an additional $600,000 in savings, said L.A.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 27, 1992
Los Angeles County supervisors have approved spending $12.3 million to buy the site of the future Chatsworth courthouse, despite longstanding opposition from residents of neighborhoods nearby. The $51.5-million courthouse will primarily serve residents of the West Valley, who now must go to Van Nuys or San Fernando for court business.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 17, 1992
Los Angeles County staff has completed its environmental review of the proposed Chatsworth courthouse and has determined that all the negative impact can be mitigated. But Harry Godley, chairman of the Chatsworth Homeowners Committee, said Monday that the group will continue to battle the project. "We are terribly disappointed and we think it's wrong," Godley said. "They haven't thoroughly considered the alternate sites at all and they are in total disregard of the community and its feelings."
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 2, 1991
The excellent coverage of the "Chatsworth Courthouse: Disputed Project Proceeds" by staff writer Amy Pyle captured the true flavor of the situation. I am writing because of the quotation in that article by Los Angeles Municipal Court Presiding Judge Jon M. Mayeda, who said: "If that court had been wrong on its recommendation, then the argument against that site would be more persuasive and clear." In the first place, the court should be sensitive to the citizens' requirements without having to be told.
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August 17, 1999 | KURT STREETER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Groundbreaking for a long-awaited county courthouse in Chatsworth, scheduled to be built in the early 1990s until fiscal woes ground the project to a halt, will officially take place Thursday morning, county officials announced. The $59-million Municipal Court building will go up on a vacant 9-acre parcel of land at 9425 Penfield Ave., near the corner of Winnetka Ave. and Prairie Street. It is scheduled to open in October 2001.