CBS News Bay Area: YWFC Oakland

San Francisco’s elected officials voted overwhelmingly four years ago to shutter the county’s expensive jail-like juvenile hall, basking in the national accolades that came with their pledge to stop locking young people in cells by the end of 2021. 

A leading racial and social justice grantmaking foundation organization in the Bay Area and nationally Tuesday has named a youth justice strategist as its senior program officer.

The federal government told the San Francisco Board of Supervisors last month it’s deferring to the judgment of the California Attorney General’s office regarding an inquiry into San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’ decision not to prosecute the killer of Banko Brown.