Placer County Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Commission

10/19/2017

Tomorrow, October 19, the Placer County Juvenile Justice Commission is having a meeting at 6:00 in Room 111, 5701 Lonetree Blvd. The public is welcome to attend!

12/16/2014

This federal legislation, if passed, would prevent youth from being incarcerated for non-criminal acts (i.e. skipping school, incorrigibility, running away). There's an abundance of evidence that locking kids up only makes them worse, and increases that chances that they will drop out of school. Would you be willing to providing written support to your Federal Senators?

http://jjie.org/why-the-juvenile-justice-and-delinquency-prevention-reauthorization-act-matters-to-cities/

Last week, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, introduced the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2014. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) provides state and local government agencies with federal standards and s…

06/14/2014

Come check in with commissioners at Johnson Springview Park. There is free food, music, prizes, and bounce houses at the UNITE Family & Community Festival.

05/23/2014

10/29/2013

Concerned about at-risk kids in Placer County? Take a little time out of your day to see how you can make positive changes (lunch provided)
https://ambassadorsofcompasionopenevent.eventbrite.com/

The Ambassadors of Compassion Journey is a 14 week interactive course experience developed for youth 14 years of age and older designed to teach students critical life principles that every person should know and incorporate into their life in order to reach their full potential. TRAIN The journey s...

10/18/2013

What does this mean for Placer youth?

California Gov. Jerry Brown has upset school discipline reform advocates by vetoing a bill that would have made it tougher to transfer students to alternative “community” schools. Brown said he was deferring to “the skill and good faith” of local educators. Reform advocates, including some prominent...

09/10/2013

Something to watch. This impacts minors entering the juvenile justice system

A bill to restrict how students are disciplined under the broadly used grounds called "willful defiance" is being shelved for this legislative session.

08/23/2013

Interesting Article

Real change takes more than just ideas, it requires sustained and supported implementation of those ideas, and a willingness to make course corrections based on new data. It also requires that the ideas dreamed up by policy wonks get translated into useful action on the ground. Too often there is a…

08/06/2013

Very interesting

Isolating inmates inflicts permanent mental harm. The practice must be curbed