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Juvenile

Nov. 8, 2014

Keeping kids out of court, in school

What should happen to a teenage girl who keeps getting into fights at school? To a 12-year-old caught selling drugs? To a boy who has run away from home 10 times? By Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye


By Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye


What should happen to a teenage girl who keeps getting into fights at school? To a 12-year-old caught selling drugs? To a boy who has run away from home 10 times?


As California's chief justice, I know that over 50,000 times a year judges in the juvenile court system are faced with deciding how to hold children accountable when they break the law while at the same time considering the circumstances that brought them before ...

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