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Jones-Mason v. Anderson Stipulated Modification

Jones-Mason v. Anderson was filed in December 1996 against the State Department of Social Services...

Categories: Standards/enforcement

Difficult to Place: Summary of Findings

This is a shorter version of the original report that presents the findings of Youth...

Categories: Disposition/placement, Placement delay

AB 2496

The Youth Law Center helped draft this legislation and sponsored it. It was passed...

Categories: Placement delay

Flores v. Reno Stipulation Extending Settlement Agreement and for Other Purposes; and Order Thereon

Filed in March 1988, this action presented a class-wide challenge to (a) the Immigration and...

Categories: Legal Rights/Placement

Flores v. Meese Stipulated Settlement Agreement

Filed in March 1988, this action presented a class-wide challenge to (a) the Immigration and...

Categories: Legal Rights/Placement

Flores v. Meese Second Amended Complaint

Filed in March 1988, this action presented a class-wide challenge to (a) the Immigration and...

Categories: Legal Rights/Placement

The Development of Adoption Law

This article will provide a short history of the law of adoption and a brief...

Categories: Adoption

Shifting Values in Juvenile Justice – Daily Journal (December 21, 2010)

This is an op ed piece summing up juvenile justice reform in the first part...

Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Legal/policy analyses, Realignment of resources

Juvenile Defense Attorneys Speak Out – Daily Journal (January 15, 2010)

This is the second part of a two part piece on training and resource needs...

Categories: Legal/policy analyses, Right to Counsel

Juvenile Delinquency: The Case for Specialty Training – Daily Journal (January 14, 2010)

This is part one of a two part piece published in the Daily Journal. ...

Categories: Legal/policy analyses, Right to Counsel

JJDP Powerpoint Presentation

The Juvenile Justice Data Project was started in October 2004 and ended in 2007, as...

Categories: Data

Juvenile Justice Data Project Phase I Summary Report

The Juvenile Justice Data Project (JJDP) released the results of the first ever statewide survey...

Categories: Data