New gym, auto shop and classrooms reflect incentive-based approach with youth at Orange County Juvenile Hall https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2022-12-03/new-gym-auto-shop-and-classrooms-reflect-inventive-based-approach-with-youth-at-orange-county-juvenile-hall Orange County’s ‘Young Adult Court’ celebrates its first graduate https://www.ocregister.com/2020/06/27/orange-countys-young-adult-court-celebrates-its-first-graduate/ 30 arrested in multi-agency fugitive sweep in Orange County https://abc7.com/2440897/ 30 Santa Ana fugitives arrested in ‘Operation Clean Sweep ’ https://www.ocregister.com/2017/09/21/30-santa-ana-fugitives-arrested-in-operation-clean-sweep/ Positive Outcomes...

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Note: This is a composite of the background section and original appendix from The "8% Problem": Chronic Juvenile Offender Recidivism (Kurz and Moore, 1994) which describes the research methodology used to examine juvenile offender recidivism in Orange County. Background Over the decade of the 1980s, the County of Orange became...

On January 1, 2020, California Senate Bill 978 modified Penal Code section 13650. PC 13650 now requires law enforcement agencies to post online all current standards, policies, practices, operating procedures, and education and training materials that would otherwise be available to the public if a request was made pursuant to...