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Wards from the sex offender treatment program exercise at the O.H. Close Youth Correctional Facility in Stockton on March 15, 2007. A controversial new law that takes effect next year will dismantle the state’s current juvenile justice system and transfer responsibility for convicted youth back to counties. Photo by Steve Yeater, AP Photo

Juvenile justice overhaul: How the governor’s plan shifts care of serious offenders to counties

by Elizabeth Aguilera October 22, 2020October 30, 2020

The state’s Division of Juvenile Justice will no longer accept newly convicted young people after July 2021 in a shutdown quickly signed off on by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

For some California teens, school closures led to work in the fields

by Elizabeth Aguilera June 22, 2020October 21, 2020