发生了什么，让一名十六岁的女性在青年中心门口流血！ "We have a 16-year ...

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发生了什么，让一名十六岁的女性在青年中心门口流血！

"We have a 16-year-old female who’s bleeding in front of the youth center wearing maroon leggings and a long-sleeved shirt," was one call that came in Jan. 2 this year.
今年1月2日的一个电话是这样打来的:“我们有一个16岁的女孩，她穿着栗色的打底裤和长袖衬衫，在青年中心前流血。”


"Engine 62, Medic 62, Violent crime assault, 4000 Branch Center Road," came on Feb 4.
“Engine 62, Medic 62, Violent crime assault, 4000 Branch Center Road,”2月4日传来消息。





A building housing kids anywhere from 12-17 years old in the custody of Sacramento County's Child Protective Services.
一幢房子里住着由萨克拉门托县儿童保护服务中心监护的12到17岁的孩子。


The Warren E. Thornton Center, which the state of California calls a former detention center, was put back in use in August of 2022.   It became a new housing facility because Sacramento County was told that the office building where foster kids — kids in CPS custody, removed from their homes for a number of reasons — were sleeping and being housed.   Sacramento County had said it was supposed to be a processing center, someplace kids were not supposed to be sleeping, as they were waiting for placement in foster homes.   Instead, unable to find foster homes or suitable family placement, the county kept kids inside that office building.   As it was never designed for residence, that was a violation of the fire code.   The state of California told the county it could not continue to use that building.
Warren E. Thornton Center曾被加利福尼亚州称为拘留中心，于2022年8月重新投入使用。它成为了一个新的住房设施，因为萨克拉门托县被告知，在办公楼里，寄养儿童(由CPS监护的孩子，由于各种原因被从家里带走)正在睡觉和居住。萨克拉门托县曾表示，这应该是一个处理中心，孩子们不应该在这里睡觉，因为他们正在等待被寄养家庭安置。由于无法找到寄养家庭或合适的家庭安置，该县把孩子们留在了那栋办公楼里。但它不是为居住而设计的，这违反了消防法规。加州政府告知该县不能继续使用该建筑。


"Working with the county, we determined that ...   could be a temporary solution for up to 18 months as they worked to find a better solution for where to house these kids," said Chief Barbie Law, fire marshal for Sacramento Metropolitan Fire.
萨克拉门托大都会消防局局长芭比·劳说:“通过与政府合作，我们将达成一个长达18个月的临时解决方案，他们正在努力寻找更好的办法来安置这些孩子。”


So in August, it moved operations to the Warren E. Thornton Youth Center.
因此，在8月份，它将业务转移到了沃伦·e·桑顿青年中心。


But as early as Aug. 2, chief Law and Metro Fire inspectors began finding violations at 4000 Branch Center Road, Wing C. By that date, no permits for change in use had occurred to bring the building up to code, according to inspection reports obtained by KCRA 3 Investigates.   Failure after failure appeared in the records, some for fire doors — others for lack of records.   Others show kids daisy-chaining extension cords into the cells where they sleep because there were no power cords to charge their phones.
但根据KCRA 3 investigations获得的检查报告，早在8月2日，首席法律和地铁消防检查员就开始发现c区布兰奇中心路4000号存在违规行为。但那时，还没有批准改变用途，使该建筑符合规定。记录中出现了一次又一次的故障，一些是防火门的故障，另一些是缺乏记录的故障。还有一些照片显示，孩子们在他们睡觉的地方分布着杂乱无章的电线，因为那里没有合适长度的电源线给他们的手机充电。


By September, the fire units, a large number from station 62 off Bradshaw Road, had been responding to similar calls: fire alarms going off.   Not always due to fires, but due to cigarette and marijuana smoke so thick they set off the alarms.   Smoke from kids under the age of 18 inside the WET Center.   One call notes that empty bottles of alcohol sat on the floor.   Another call notes that kids had claimed to have snorted cocaine on-site.
到了9月，Bradshaw Road附近的62号车站的很多消防队都接到了类似的报警电话:火灾警报响起，并不是因为火灾，而是因为香烟和大麻的烟雾太浓，从而触发了警报。18岁以下儿童不得在the WET Center内吸烟。一个电话记录了地板上的空烟盒。另一个电话记录说，有孩子声称在现场吸食了可卡因。

In fact, the smoke was so thick that, according to Law, "I know that at least one of our inspectors filed an exposure report after being in the building."
事实上，烟雾太浓了，据劳说，“我知道我们至少有一名检查员在进入大楼后提交了一份暴露报告。”

Also of concern was the timeline to get the building up to code.   Metro Fire had given the county 18 months to get the permits pulled and the changes made to the WET Center so kids could live there safely.   That included having two ways in and out of so-called bedrooms — former cells.   The windows do not open and the doors, while not locked, are the only way out in a fire.   As Law described it, the building was designed to keep people in, not let people out.
另一个值得关注的问题是使建筑已达到年限。Metro Fire给了该县18个月的时间来撤销许可证，并对WET中心做出了改变，以便孩子们可以安全地生活在那里。这包括有两条进出所谓卧室的通道——以前的牢房。窗户打不开，门虽然没有锁，但在火灾中是唯一的出路，没有其他逃生出口。正如劳所描述的那样，这座建筑的设计是为了让人们呆在里面，而不是让人们出去。

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Law said they simply saw no movement to make changes at the WET Center by the county.
劳说，他们根本没有看到该县在WET中心做出任何改变。

"We're not at a year yet," Law said.   "However, we have not seen any submittal for permits to do the work."
Law说。“我们目前没有看到任何进行这项工作的许可申请。”

Along with that were the many calls, averaging a dozen per month, Law said that, even though the kids are supposed only to be in the facility for 48 hours, they saw the same kids over and over again.
与此同时，还有很多电话，平均每个月有十几个。劳说，尽管孩子们只应该在设施里待48小时，但他们一次又一次地看到同样的孩子。

"If we were to respond out into the community to a home, and saw the amount of marijuana smoke and drinking and drugs going on in a location, we would be required as mandated reporters to notify Child Protective Services," Law said.   "And so this is a different type of situation, because they're actually already in the care of Child Protective Services, essentially."
他说:“如果我们去社区的一个家庭，看到一个地方有大量的大麻吸烟、饮酒和吸毒，我们就会被要求作为被授权的记者通知儿童保护服务机构。”“所以这是一种不同的情况，因为他们实际上已经在儿童保护服务机构的照顾下了。”

For , it's a sign.
对劳来说，这是一个信号。

"It says that something's broken in our system and our safety net for taking care of our children in Sacramento County.  That's what it says to me," Law said.
“它表明我们的系统和我们在萨克拉门托县照顾孩子的安全网出现了问题。”劳说。

After all those calls for service, the county signed a contract with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office to supply 18 people to handle security at the WET Center.  While slated as a temporary facility, the Memorandum of Understanding with the sheriff runs through 2025 for more than $5.5 million.
在所有这些服务呼吁之后，该县与萨克拉门托县警长办公室签署了一份合同，提供18名人员来处理WET中心的安全问题。虽然被定为临时设施，但与警长的备忘录将持续到2025年，费用超过550万美元。

Yet just as concerning to Law was the status of the county's license to operate at the WET Center.
然而，与劳同样关心的是该县在WET中心运营的许可证状况。

"We also found out that the facility actually isn't licensed to be providing shelter care for children, which was a new piece of information that added complexity to the problem," Law said.  "Because not only are we not in the right type of building with the right type of safety features, we're not licensed to be providing the care that we're doing."
“我们还发现，该机构实际上没有获得为儿童提供庇护的许可，这是一条新的信息，使问题更加复杂，”劳说。“因为我们不仅没有在正确类型的建筑中使用正确类型的安全功能，而且我们没有获得提供我们正在做的护理的许可。”

On May 16, the California Department of Social Services told Sacramento County to cease operations at 4000 Branch Center Road.  It gave the county until June 16 to remove the children and said it was not allowed to place any more children inside.  It would face fines of $200 per day, per child, after that.
5月16日，加州社会服务部通知萨克拉门托县停止布兰奇中心路4000号的运营。它要求该县在6月16日之前将这些孩子带走，并表示不允许再将任何孩子安置在里面。在此之后，它将面临每个孩子每天200美元的罚款。

When KCRA 3 Investigates asked the county about the contract with the sheriff and whether the county would have to continue to pay through 2025 if the facility is shut down, it said it had a 30-day termination clause.  However, upon review, the termination clause in the contract requires a 12-month termination notice.  In response, the county said, "Thank you for pointing out our discrepancy," and said it is negotiating with the sheriff to move resources to other facilities.
当KCRA 3调查询问该县与警长的合同，以及如果设施关闭，该县是否需要继续支付到2025年时，该县表示有30天的终止条款。然而，经审查，合同中的终止条款要求12个月的终止通知。作为回应，该县表示，“谢谢你指出我们的差异”，并表示正在与治安官协商，将资源转移到其他设施。

Sacramento County is working to find a solution to the unlicensed WET Center.  In an email, it informed KCRA it is negotiating leases for three "welcome centers."  It also says it is "working diligently with the State and partners to meet the June 16 deadline."
萨克拉门托县正在努力寻找解决无证WET中心的办法。在一封电子邮件中，它告知KCRA，它正在就三个“欢迎中心”的租约进行谈判。它还表示，它正在“与州政府和合作伙伴努力工作，以满足6月16日的最后期限。”

As for Law, her office sent a letter mirroring what the state says — due to the fact that the WET Center was not licensed, they need to cease operation by June 16.  But she said her goal is to work with the county in order to find a safe and appropriate place to give the kids inside the WET Center a chance.
至于Law，她的办公室发了一封布告，反映了州政府的说法——由于WET中心没有获得许可，他们需要在6月16日之前停止运营。但她说，她的目标是与县政府合作，找到一个安全、合适的地方，给WET中心的孩子们一个机会。


"We just want to see the kids in a right place and have the same chance that you and I grew up with," Law said.
“我们只是想看到孩子们在正确的地方，拥有和你我一起长大的同样的机会，”劳说。