Through legal advocacy, publications, projects, public education and training, Juvenile Law Center works to ensure that the child welfare, juvenile justice, and other public systems provide vulnerable children with the protection and services they need to become productive adults.
JLC’s brief urges appeals panel to adjustment the status of an immigrant minor who turned himself around so that he can remain in the United States and eventually become a citizen. Continued...
JLC briefed whether using delinquency adjudications to enhance an adult criminal sentence violates U.S. Supreme Court precedent as well as California’s longstanding commitment to maintaining a separate juvenile justice system. Continued...
JLC challenged the constitutionality of a Pennsylvania law (Act 53) which allows courts to order involuntary civil commitments for minors found to be drug dependent. Continued...
Juvenile Law Center
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