Published by Nonprofit Quarterly
“With a 10–1 vote, San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday passed legislation to shutter The City’s Juvenile Justice Center by the end of 2021,” writes Laura Waxman in the San Francisco Examiner. “The proposal approved,” she adds, “includes amendments adding protections for the facility’s staff, who will be required to transition into other jobs, and requires the Board to approve a final closure plan for the facility as well as a separate resolution by June 1, 2021.”
This past March, NPQ covered a San Francisco Chronicle exposé that detailed the dramatic decline in youth crime both statewide and especially in San Francisco itself. In the mid-1990s, felony juvenile arrest rates in San Francisco exceeded 160 per 10,000 youth. Today, that rate is closer to 10 per 10,000 youth.