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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Sep. 11, 2007

State's Youth System In Desperate Need of a Fair, Uniform Approach to Justice

Forum Column - By Daniel Macallair and Christina Stahlkopf - After years of pronounced failure, new legislation that devolves authority over juvenile justice issues to California counties could finally restore sanity to a broken system.

FORUM COLUMN

By Daniel Macallair and Christina Stahlkopf

      With the August 2007 signing of Senate Bill 81, Gov. Schwarzenegger ushered in the most sweeping juvenile justice reform legislation since the establishment of California's juvenile court in 1903. The historic legislation is a complete restructuring of the existing system, which had previously limited county commitments to the state's Division of Juvenile Justice to yout...

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