DA's office loses job of representing foster youths
S.J. Nonprofit to provide lawyers in family court
Located on the San Jose Mercury News Newspaper dated February 10th, 2009.
Written by Karen de Sa.
I actually had a hard time finding an essay on San Jose that was printed so to my pleasant surprise, my roommate Kenneth Tadeo rolls in with a newspaper and I gladly share it with him with a big smile on my face. I'll happily take what I could get.
The essay explains that the District Attorney's office will have it's foster youth division replaced by a San Jose nonprofit organization. This leads the dependency court to a complete overhaul. The list of benefits includes: another courtroom will be added, a commissioner is replaced by two judges, investigators and experts involved, social workers for parents, growth in attorney salaries, more kids will be present in court.
The main problem in the essay is that district attorneys usually try to get the children away from their homes and whatever advice the courts give them. This is a problem and is remedied by completely removing district attorneys completely from the dependency court.
"Making detailed observations, especially observations that will lead you to useful questions, takes practice." The article was very well researched and observations played a very big role in the article. This helped persuade me towards the author's side and helped me realize the big idea of the whole writing.
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