Stephanie O'Neill

A newly formed Facebook group is now pairing owners of recreational vehicles with frontline health care workers who are caring for COVID-19 patients and need temporary housing away from their families.

"I really wanted to do something," says Debra Elliott, "so as I was searching around internet and Facebook opportunities to help contribute to the cause, I came across RVs4MDs."

The judge said the juvenile advocacy organizations did not prove that the county has failed to protect the youth or that they are being held in conditions that could subject them to COVID-19.

In his order issued late Tuesday afternoon, Judge Brett Bianco said the advocacy organizations did not provide evidence that the county has failed to protect the youth, or that they are being held in conditions that could subject them to contracting COVID-19.

California law gives the state’s probation officers and sheriffs greater authority during emergencies to release or move to a safer place of confinement any juvenile detainee or adult inmates without the need for a court order.

Two advocacy groups are asking the court to order the immediate release of some low-risk youth detainees and those with medical conditions.

Two juvenile law advocacy organizations filed a petition with the California Supreme Court Tuesday afternoon to protect detained L.A. County youth from COVID-19.

After the pandemic shut down his wine bar, Nigel Chisholm of Ojai wanted to do something to help those most at risk of contracting COVID-19.

'They're eating communally, they're showering communally,' one attorney told us. 'There's no consistent access to soap and water or hand sanitizer.'

One attorney told us: 'We are getting repeated, consistent reports of youth who are held in custody, not having any guidance or guidelines on social distancing.'