A Los Angeles County probation officer has been placed on administrative leave pending an internal affairs investigation for carrying and using pepper spray during a fight involving 14 girls at a ...

Several students were medically treated on Wednesday after pepper spray was accidentally released at a Panorama school.

“These are chemical weapons that are harmful to the human body and harmful to particularly vulnerable folks, like children,” says Asha Hassan, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in ...

Pepper spray usage and violence skyrocketed at Los Angeles County’s second largest juvenile facility last year after dozens ...