Report Finds Families Locked in Debt by California's Juvenile Justice Fees

A report released Monday by UC Berkeley’s Policy Advocacy Clinic finds that administrative fees charged to families with youth enmeshed in California’s juvenile justice system are costly, harmful and unlawful. What’s more, the report concludes, these fees undermine the juvenile system’s rehabilitation efforts. We’ll hear about the three-year investigation and the counties that have already stopped charging fees because of it.

Read the Report:

Making Families Pay: The Harmful, Unlawful, and Costly Practice of Charging Juvenile Administrative Fees in California