California lawmakers have tried to limit the length of time children spend on probation, passing legislation in 2022 to create a presumption that minors cannot serve terms longer than six months. Courts would still have been able to extend probation conditions an additional six months, though this would take a hearing process and a judge finding it in the child’s best interest, with no limit to the number of times that probation could be extended.
That measure, however, was vetoed by Governor Gavin Newsom. …
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This year, Assemblymember Mia Bonta refiled the 2021 measure to limit probation terms on minors, with Assembly Bill 1376.
Bonta, who says current probation conditions are often overbearing or unreasonable, explained that the legislation also aims to make officials impose conditions that are individually tailored and developmentally appropriate.
“We’re dealing with youth where there should be some recognition of what’s developmentally appropriate, what they can access in terms of being able to actually fulfill and we should make it personalized towards what their particular experiences, as opposed to a long laundry list of things that may or may not be within their ability to actually achieve,” Bonta said.
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Gozani said juvenile probation affects a young person’s whole family. Gozani, who used to represent children on probation as a staff attorney with Bay Area Legal Aid’s Youth Justice Team, says she’s met parents who lost jobs trying to keep up with all the meetings and appointments they had to make sure their kids met.
I absolutely believe this. It’s similar to the idea that being poor costs more money than being rich. I remember when I ran out of plates and was living on the edge of covering rent. I couldn’t save enough for dishware because I kept having to buy disposable plates. My brother once described being unable to pay an overdue electric bill because he kept having to buy candles for light. Desperate situations keep people desperate.
Fortunately, neither of us is in such a bad place anymore, fwiw.
So what did she do o get that probation sentence? That matters
This attitude is why Americans are getting exiled to El Salvador.
No, it doesn’t matter. Everyone gets treated the same under the law.
