Public Safety

Probation Officer is ‘Like a Mom Away From Home’

| 10:15 AM

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Supervising Probation Officer Mindy McCartney is part law enforcement officer, part social worker, part teacher/tutor and part counselor in her job. She supervises the County’s only all-female Youthful Offender Unit at Kearny Mesa juvenile hall, the “end of the line” of sorts for young women in the juvenile justice system.