Supervisors reject Family Justice Center occupancy agreement after 3 recusals

Supervisors reject Family Justice Center occupancy agreement after 3 recusals

A rare procedural move at Tuesday morning’s Kern County Board of Supervisors meeting, and the unusual vote that followed it, appears to have left the county’s Family Justice Center without access to a critical service provider — and no simple…

Kern Co. rejects controversial new contract for Family Justice Center

Kern County is not moving forward with a new operator for the Family Justice Center in what turned out to be an unusual series of events at the Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday.  The board did not muster up enough votes to install Bakersfield Recovery Services as the center’s operator, leaving the future in flux.  The backstory: Earlier this year, the Kern County District Attorney’s Office moved to cut ties with the Open Door Network, whi…