Youth Law Center News

YLC Attorney Sue Burrell was interviewed for a Sacramento Valley Mirror series exposed alleged sexual misconduct by Tehama County Juvenile […]

YLC staff Sue Burrell, Corene Kendrick and Deborah Escobedo will be heading to Indianapolis, Indiana to present an all-day workshop […]

The Youth Law Center joined with over 35 national child welfare and mental organizations to thank Senator Debbie Stabenow for […]

The Youth Law Center, along with other legal advocates, have filed a lawsuit challenging California Medi-Cal policies that deny necessary […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, September 4, 2009 Contact: Peter Simonson, ACLU of NM Executive Director (505) 266-5915 x1002 ALBUQUERQUE— In […]

By Michael Rothfeld  |  Los Angeles Times  — Reporting from Sacramento – The state is closing California’s largest youth prison as the population […]

By Alice Bussiere, Jennifer Pokempner, Jennifer Rodriguez  | YLC staff attorneys Jennifer Rodriguez and Alice Bussiere co-authored an article with Juvenile […]

The Youth Law Center joined fourteen other children’s advocacy organizations in an amicus brief filed with the First Circuit Court […]

YLC Staff Attorney Corene Kendrick is working with Madelyn Freundlich, Senior Child Welfare Consultant at Excal Consulting Partners, and the […]

Damon King, our Skadden Fellow, will begin work here on September 14th.  His project is to enforce the rights of […]

The Youth Law Center is happy to announce that Nicole M. Lewis has just joined our board.  Ms. Lewis is […]

The California Supreme Court ruled on July 2, 2009, that juvenile felony adjudications count as “strikes” under California’s Three Strikes […]