Investigative reporters Garrett Therolf and Matt Hamilton will discuss their groundbreaking stories about L.A. County's child welfare system. Guests include Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Holly J. Mitchell. Once again, welfare agencies are undergoing major scrutiny and leadership changes. Therolf and Hamilton will delve into Los Angeles County's troubled system for protecting our most vulnerable children and examine what's ahead in 2022.
Therolf worked for the Los Angeles Times for a decade, focusing on stories about children and families living on the margins, and is currently a reporter at UC Berkeley's Investigative Reporting Program. He was the producer behind "The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez," a Netflix series about an 8-year-old Palmdale boy whose abuse, torture and 2013 murder at the hands of his mother and her boyfriend exposed systemic failures within the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services and other agencies.
Hamilton is a Times reporter and won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. In 2020 he and Therolf wrote a series of stories that revealed errors, misjudgments and bureaucratic conflict within the county's child welfare system, including among top supervisors, that blocked multiple opportunities to protect another four-year-old boy who died in 2019. The boy's parents are awaiting trial on charges of torture and abuse.
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