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By Patricia Soung, Shimica Gaskins, and Cyn Yamashiro Soon, Governor Gavin Newsom will appoint California’s next Attorney General. We hope the Governor will select a leader with a proven track record of fighting for California youth and their families. The best person for the job is CA Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu. His formidable intellect, deep policy experience and commitment to equal justice makes him the ideal person to lead the CA Department of Justice.
After years of a punitive, tough-on-crime stance in its juvenile justice systems, Los Angeles County is poised to change its approach to youth who violate the law. Research on child development, echoed by numerous Supreme Court decisions, have reaffirmed that children are still developing and malleable, and that contact with the justice system — especially incarceration — often is ineffective or even harmful.
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