New Centers Will Serve Juveniles on Probation
Hoping to curb youth crime, Ventura County will use a $2.8-million state grant to open centers in Ventura, Oxnard and Simi Valley where juveniles on probation can be more tightly supervised and receive counseling and other services.
The money also will pay for a second county prosecutor who can take parents of habitual truants to court and for additional probation officers to control gang-plagued neighborhoods in Oxnard and Santa Paula.
The grant comes from legislation passed last year that provides $121.3 million statewide for programs that focus on youths likely to commit crime.
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