Youth Law Center News

Lawsuit Filed to Protect Programs for Homeless, Neglected, Migrant, English Learners and Other “At Risk” Students Concerned parents and community […]

 In December 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued rules that would have restricted Medicaid funding for […]

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Peter Busch ruled on June 4th that California state foster care officials must comply with […]

Corene Kendrick will be on “Beyond the Headlines” at 10:00 a.m. this Sunday, May 10th, on ABC Channel 7 to […]

Through their Future Leaders Institute, Gateway Charter High School Students, lead by Maricarmen Hernandez, are hosting a fundraiser to support […]

Staff Attorney Corene Kendrick was part of a team of juvenile justice experts organized by the National Juvenile Defender Center […]

Closure of Youth Jails Proposed in Cash-Strapped Sacramento County By Andy Furillo  |  Sacramento Bee  — Sacramento County probation officials have proposed shutting […]

Additional child welfare bills that the Youth Law Center is supporting are AB 154 that will inform adoptive parents about the availability […]

YLC is co-sponsoring AB 12, which will extend foster care benefits to youth after the age of 18 and allow […]

YLC is supporting AB 938, which provides for early identification and notification of relatives of children who have removed from […]

We have signed on to an amicus brief in a strip search case, Safford v. Redding, that is going before the Supreme […]

By Karen de Sa  |  Mercury News  — One of the youngest children ever to be locked up in Santa Clara County spent […]