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Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center

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Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center

The Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center (formerly known as the Criminal Courts Building) is the county criminal courthouse in the Civic Center neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is located at 210 West Temple Street, between Broadway and Spring Street occupying the

former site of the historic Red Sandstone Courthouse from 1891–1936, and prior to that, Los Angeles High School (1873–82), on the former Pound Cake Hill, now flattened. Originally known as the Criminal Courts Building, in 2002 it was renamed the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, after Clara S. Foltz, the first female lawyer on the West Coast of the United States (and also the first person to propose the creation of a public defender's office). The building houses the main offices of the Los Angeles County Public Defender.

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