Youth Law Center News

United States District Court judge Dolly Gee ordered the Department of Homeland Security and other federal defendants to comply with […]

United States District Court Judge Dolly Gee has ruled that immigrant children who are accompanied by a parent when they are […]

YLC Staff Attorney Sue Burrell was interviewed for a story appearing in the June 29, 2015  edition of THE CRIME […]

The California Court of Appeal has reversed and remanded a juvenile court disposition that ordered a youth to live with his […]

YLC staff attorney Sue Burrell’s article, “Collateral  Consequences of Juvenile Court: Boulders on the Road to Good Outcomes,” appears in […]

The Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities (CECANF), established by the Protect Our Kids Act of 2012 (H.R. 6655 [112th]), […]

On May 18, 2015, the California Supreme Court announced its decision in In re R.V., reversing a lower court decision […]

Recognizing that “Children are best raised in families, not institutions,” President Barak Obama on April 30th issued a proclamation naming […]

On April 20, 2015 YLC celebrated the end of a Santa Clara County Probation Department pilot program to allow the […]

An investigation by ProPublica has found that the California Department of Social Services fails to swiftly or conclusively investigate hundreds […]

The California Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved  SB 12 on April 14, 2015.  SB 12 is a bill to widen the […]

Youth Law Center and the Alliance for Children Rights have co-sponsored SB 12, a bill now before the California Legislature […]