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Working Together: Building Local Monitoring Capacity for Juvenile Detention Centers

This report describes a project undertaken when the California Legislature defunded state inspections of juvenile...

Categories: Detention, Inspection / assessment material, Legal/policy issues

The “Inmate Exception” and Its Impact on Health Care Services for Children in Out-of-Home Care in California

This paper was commissioned by The California Endowment. Youth Law Center was asked to...

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Inmate Exclusion

Anthony C. v. Pima County Complaint

Anthony C. v. Pima County was filed in 1982 to challenge a number of practices...

Categories: Detention, Legal/policy issues

Aguilar v. Mitchell Complaint

Aguilar v. Mitchell was a federal court action involving conditions of confinement of children in...

Categories: Detention, Legal/policy issues

ACLU NM v. NMCYFD 2007 Complaint

Since 2002, YLC staff has worked with the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico...

Categories: Legal/policy issues, Training school

Application of Pacific Juvenile Defender Center for Leave to File Amicus Curiae Brief on Behalf of Appellant Rodrigo Cab...

This amicus curiae brief was filed on behalf of appellant Rodrigo Caballero. The issue...

Categories: Juveniles in Jails/Prisons, LWOP/extremely long sentences

Graham v. Sullivan Amicus

The Youth Law Center is one of the Amici Curiae in this brief to the...

Categories: Juveniles in Jails/Prisons, LWOP/extremely long sentences

Safford v. Redding Amicus

The Youth Law Center participated in this case as amicus curiae in a brief on...

Categories: Discipline/truancy, Juvenile justice legal issues, Law enforcement in school

Sam M. v. Carcieri Amicus

The Youth Law Center joined fourteen other children's advocacy organizations in an amicus brief filed...

Categories: Foster care

Drugs and Disparity: The Racial Impact of Illinois’ Practice of Transferring Young Drug Offenders to Adult Court

This study analyzed data from state criminal justice agencies in Illinois and national corrections databases....

Categories: Racial Justice/DMC

Rights of Children and Youth in Foster Care to Have Contact with Relatives and Friends

This three-page fact sheet explains the rights of children and youth in foster care to...

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care, Relatives/kinship care

Overpayments – YLC Fact Sheet

This fact sheet describes what overpayments are and what the rules are if the overpayments...

Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance, Foster care, Kinship/guardianship, Title IV-E funding