Judges and Judiciary,
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Jan. 21, 2022
Head of new juvenile offenders agency aims to keep them close to home
“It’s getting kids closer to home rather than sending them far away to have rehabilitative intervention,” said Katherine Lucero, who retired from the Santa Clara County Superior Court to take the job.




Katherine L. Lucero has retired from the Santa Clara County Superior Court to be the first director of the new Office of Youth and Community Restoration, which oversees juvenile lawbreakers who previously were under the supervision of the prisons department.
Lucero started her new job on Tuesday.
The agency, created last year by the passage of SB ...
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