Government
Dec. 24, 2010
L.A. May Air Dependency Hearings
As county officials push efforts to open the juvenile dependency court system to public scrutiny, court veterans said the main effect could be that any notions the cases are black-and-white could be obliterated.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Determining whether a child should be removed from a parent's care has long been taken under a cloak of secrecy in California. But a series of well-publicized deaths of abused children in Los Angeles County could spur the dependency system to open its doors to the public.
Last week, the county Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to lobby for legislation in Sacramento that would ...
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