For Immediate Release
December 16, 2008

Keep your legal skills sharp in UCR Extension's 11th Annual Juvenile Law Institute

Teenage prostitution, drug courts and new legislation to be discussed at the 11th Annual Juvenile Law Institute

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Southern California law enforcement officials are concerned about a steady migratory pattern in teenage prostitution between San Diego, the Inland Empire, and Las Vegas. Girls, sometimes as young as 14, are arrested and released in the Inland Empire, then re-arrested months later for the same offense in Las Vegas or San Diego, said Rick Lal, deputy district attorney for San Bernardino County.

"We have no system to keep track of these young ladies. Because juvenile records are confidential, it's harder to track them," Lal said.

Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and law enforcement and county officials will discuss "Prostitution and Juveniles" in the Delinquency Law Program at the 11th Annual Juvenile Law Institute Dependency and Delinquency Law Update from 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 9, 2009 at UCR Extension Center, 1200 University Ave., Riverside, Ca. The one-day conference offers two tracks: dependency law and delinquency law. The dependency law track features such topics as drug courts and their effects on dependency outcomes and establishing parentage in juvenile court. The delinquency law track features the prostitution and juveniles issue as well as prosecuting serious juvenile offenders as adults.

"The Juvenile Law Institute is one of the few programs where everyone comes – judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys," Lal said. "It's a nice discourse because the information is presented from all different perspectives."

Conference participants can earn seven hours of credit for Minimum Continuing Legal Education, Board of Behavioral Sciences or Board of Registered Nursing.

The registration fee for either the Dependency Law Program or the Delinquency Law Program is $175 for attorneys and judges; $125 for social workers, law enforcement and probation officers; and $75 for students and CASAs (includes refreshments, lunch, materials and parking).

For more information, call (951) 827-5804 or e-mail justice@ucx.ucr.edu. To register for classes, visit www.extension.ucr.edu or call (951) 827-4105. To receive a free UCR Extension catalog, which includes a complete listing of all our current courses and certificate programs, call (951) 827-3806.

UCR Extension is the continuing education division of the University of California, Riverside. Extension offers more than 1,800 courses and certificate programs in a variety of academic programs, including agriculture and landscape, arts and humanities, business and management, education, teacher's credentialing, English, environmental management, geospatial analysis and technology, health services and behavioral sciences, information technology, languages, law and public policy, Native American studies, natural sciences, forensic investigations and public safety, and yoga.