Juvenile Justice

San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan and Assemblymember Dr. Darshana Patel marked the signing this week, framing it as a fix for a...

A bill that revises California's juvenile resentencing process, in light of a 50-years-to-life prison sentence that was recently wiped out for the 2001 Santana High School shooter, has been signed into law.

The LA County Probation Department prohibits hugs by those in custody to anyone who visits. A bill by Assemblymember Isaac Bryan passed and signed by...

Assembly Bill 1646, known as the Hug Act, was authored by Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, D-Los Angeles. The legislation gives youth in juvenile...

In 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 823, which closed the... The Chief Probation Officers of California are ready to work with the next...

In 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 823, which closed the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), and shifted California's highest-risk,...

Zimmer explains SB 1391, enacted by the California legislature... She said Gabriel Prieto, a juvenile with an extensive record, went on a...

Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta immediately launched a legal... Assembly convenes, to push for changes to California's juvenile justice system.