Jessica Cejnar / Thursday, March 11 @ 1:19 p.m. / Local Government
As California Prepares to Close Its Juvenile Detention Centers, Del Norte and Other Rural Counties are Wondering How They ll Fill The Gap
A decision to shutter California’s juvenile incarceration facilities has the Del Norte County Probation Department trying to figure out where, and how, to house the youth that would formerly have been the state’s responsibility.
But it’s not just a Del Norte County problem and it’s not just a probation department issue, Chief Probation Officer Lonnie Reyman told the Wild Rivers Outpost on Wednesday.
“We as a community and Humboldt County as a community, Siskiyou County as a community, we’re on the hook responsible for these kids,” he said. “It’s gotta be a whole holistic countywide response rather than just, ‘Hey, probation, deal with this.’”