California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Jose S. (In re Jose S.), 12 Cal.App.5th 1107, 219 Cal.Rptr.3d 801 (Cal. App. 2017):
devoting fewer resources of the juvenile court to violent offenders and more to those offenders who can be rehabilitated, the desirability of eliminating confidentiality in some juvenile proceedings in order to hold juvenile offenders more accountable for their actions, and the need to increase penalties for gang-related felonies." (Manduley v. Superior Court (2002) 27 Cal.4th 537, 574, 117 Cal.Rptr.2d 168, 41 P.3d 3.) The proposition's amendments to section 781 were a minor part of the overall initiative, the primary purpose of which was "to address
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