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Chapter Twenty (Rules 2001 to 2011): the juvenile court presiding judge (Rule 2001); detention facilities, transportation of minors and information at delivery (Rules 2002 to 2004); Probation Department release and detention decisions (Rule 2005); filing juvenile petitions and intercounty transfers (Rule 2007); probation and social services reports (Rule 2008); court-appointed counsel in dependency cases under CRC 5.660 (Rule 2009); Court-Appointed Special Advocates, their reports filed two court days before a hearing (Rule 2010); and pretrial conferences and discovery (Rule 2011).
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Chapter Twenty: Juvenile Cases (Rule 2000 Repealed effective 07-01-09; adopted 07-01-98; previously amended 01-01-99) 2001 JUVENILE COURT PRESIDING JUDGE The juvenile court presiding judge shall establish policies and procedures relating to all juvenile court actions consistent with California statutes, the CRC and these local rules. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted 07-01-98, previously amended effective 01-01-99) 2002 DETENTION FACILITIES (a) [W&I Code Sec. 300 and 601 Minors] Minors taken into temporary custody as persons described by Welfare & Institutions (W&I) Code sections 300 or 601 shall be delivered to and detained at Santa Barbara County Department of Social Services shelter care homes for W&I Code section 300 cases and to a Santa Barbara County Probation Department designated non-secure detention facility for W&I Code section 601 cases, respectively. (b) [W&I Code Sec. 602 Minors] Minors taken into temporary custody as persons described by the provisions of W&I Code section 602 shall be delivered to and initially detained at the Santa Barbara Juvenile Hall facilities located in the appropriate North County or South County region consistent with rule 201. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted effective 07-01-98) 2003 TRANSPORTATION OF MINORS Minors taken into temporary custody shall be transported by the law enforcement agency which has taken the minor into custody; provided, however, that in an emergency or if a probation officer or a child protective services caseworker has volunteered to accept responsibility for transportation of the minor, the law enforcement agency shall be relieved of the transportation responsibility. The law enforcement agency shall be responsible to provide information sufficient to complete the Juvenile Admission Record prescribed in rule 2004. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted effective 07-01-98) 2004 INFORMATION PROVIDED AT TIME OF DELIVERY When a minor described by W&I Code section 602 is delivered to any designated detention facility, a Santa Barbara County Probation Department Juvenile Admission Record form shall either accompany the minor or be completed at the time custody is transferred. The information to complete the form shall be provided by a law enforcement officer having knowledge of the facts subjecting the minor to Juvenile Court jurisdiction, the facts of the apprehension and temporary custody of the minor, and, if continued detention is recommended by the law enforcement agency, the basis of such recommendation. The form shall be left with the Juvenile Hall receiving officer or the operator of either the shelter care home or non-secure facility. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted effective 07-01-98) 2005 PROBATION DEPARTMENT DETENTION / RELEASE DECISIONS The Probation Department shall assign personnel on duty 24 hours a day, seven (7) days a week who are authorized to make the following release or detention decisions consistent with the criteria specified by W&I Code section 628. (a) designate placement of minors alleged to be subject to W&I Code section 601 jurisdiction minors at a non-secure detention facility in response to inquiries by law enforcement agencies; (b) release minors taken into temporary custody to a parent, guardian or responsible relative. (c) arrange placement in a non-secure facility for minors alleged to be subject to W&I Code section 602 jurisdiction who do not require 24-hour secure detention but are described in W&I Code section 628. (d) release to a parent, guardian or responsible adult on “home supervision “or electronic monitoring under terms and conditions agreed to in writing by the minors those who are alleged to be subject to W&I Code section 602 jurisdiction, who do not require 24-hour secure detention and who are not described in W&I Code section 628; and, (e) detain in a secure facility those minors alleged to be subject to W&I section 602 jurisdiction who are described in W&I Code section 628. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted 07-01-98) 2006 RESERVED 2007 FILING JUVENILE PETITIONS (a) [Filing Locations] All Juvenile petitions and intercounty transfers shall be filed with the Clerk at the appropriate North County and South County region juvenile court facilities. (b) [Occurrence Jurisdiction] Petitions for both Santa Barbara County resident minors and for minors whose legal residence is outside the county shall be filed in the appropriate North County and South County region office of the Clerk where the circumstances alleged in the petition occurred. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted effective 07-01-98; amended effective 01-01-03) 2008 PROBATION & SOCIAL SERVICES REPORTS Social study reports, whether prepared by the Probation Department or the Social Services Department, shall be made available to the Juvenile Court, and all parties or counsel within a reasonable time prior to the date scheduled by the court for hearings. The reports shall be filed in the same manner as juvenile petitions. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted effective 07-01-98) 2009 COURT-APPOINTED COUNSEL IN DEPENDENCY CASES In all juvenile court proceedings filed pursuant to W&I Code section 300 the appointment and substitution or relief of counsel for the parties shall be governed by CRC 5.660 and by these local rules. (a) Competency of Appointed Counsel 1. Attorneys appointed to represent parties in dependency cases are required to meet the standards of training and competency prescribed in CRC 5.660. The juvenile court judicial officers may require proof that counsel have successfully completed the continuing education and training required by Rule 5.660. 2. Counsel failing to complete required continuing education, or otherwise demonstrating a lack of such professional skill, learning, and ability as is required to fulfill competently the responsibilities of appointed counsel for parties in dependency cases, will be prohibited by the court from further appointment, until these requirements are met. 3. These standards do not apply to privately retained counsel. 4. The assignment to appear in a dependency case on behalf of a party represented by a public office, including the Attorney General, District Attorney, Public Defender and County Counsel, constitutes an implied certification to the court that in the opinion of the head of the agency, the assigned deputy possesses the skill, learning, experience, and training required by these rules and appropriate to the representation undertaken. No other or further certification is required in the absence of particular evidence of a lack of qualifications required by Rule 5.660. (b) Review and Resolution of Complaints by Parties Complaints by parties concerning the adequacy of representation by appointed counsel shall be referred to the court when informal discussion between counsel and the client does not resolve the complaint to the client’s satisfaction. All appointed counsel have the duty to bring unresolved complaints regarding representation to the attention of the judicial officer to whom a case is assigned. Counsel have the duty to tell parties dissatisfied with their representation of their right to bring the matter to the attention of the court. When necessary to protect the privacy of the complaining party or the confidentiality of information protected by the attorney-client privilege, the court will examine the complaint of the party in camera, by procedures analogous to a hearing in criminal cases pursuant to People v. Marsden (1970) 2 Cal.3d 118. (c) Procedures to Inform Court of Interests of Dependent Child All counsel have a continuing duty to advise the court of any information bearing upon the best interests of a minor subject to dependency proceedings that is not privileged under applicable law. However, counsel have no duty under this rule to disclose information adverse to the interest of counsel’s client, where such disclosure would violate a privilege or the Rules of Professional Conduct. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted effective 07-01-99) 2010 COURT-APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) (a) [Adoption and Oversight of CASA Program] The court designates CASA of Santa Barbara to recruit, screen, select, train, supervise , and support lay volunteers for appointment by the court to help define the best interests of the child in juvenile court dependency and wardship proceedings. CASA of Santa Barbara shall comply with CRC 5.655. (b) [CASA Reports; Distribution] Court-appointed CASA volunteers shall submit a written court report for all hearings, for filing with the court no later than two court days prior to a hearing. Copies shall be served on attorneys for the parties and the child welfare case worker or probation officer, as appropriate. No copies of CASA reports will be distributed to foster parents, group homes, or any other parties or organizations not specifically provided herein except as may be required by California statutes, the CRC, these local rules or upon order of a Judge of the Juvenile Court. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted effective 07-01-03) 2011 SETTLEMENTS, DISCOVERY & OTHER PROCEDURES (a) Settlement Conference The court will set a pretrial (readiness and settlement) conference for every contested action. Cases will not ordinarily be scheduled for a contested hearing until all parties who have appeared in the action have been served with the report and recommendation of the petitioner. (b) Discovery 1. All discovery materials should be exchanged between the parties and served upon all other parties who have appeared in the action no later than the pretrial conference. 2. When a witness with relevant evidence is discovered after the pretrial conference, the party who seeks to present the testimony shall serve all parties who have appeared in the action with appropriate discovery information on the next court day. (Adopted 07-01-09; formerly subsection (a) of rule 2009, adopted effective 07-01-98)
Chapter Twenty: Juvenile Cases (Rule 2000 Repealed effective 07-01-09; adopted 07-01-98; previously amended 01-01-99) 2001 JUVENILE COURT PRESIDING JUDGE The juvenile court presiding judge shall establish policies and procedures relating to all juvenile court actions consistent with California statutes, the CRC and these local rules. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted 07-01-98, previously amended effectiv
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-07 (California T4 Santa Barbara build 2026-10-07) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-santa-barbara/pages/forms-filing__local-rules.html (the court's Local Rules page, “Current Local Rules / Effective January 1, 2025”, as fetched 2026-10-07; 894893 bytes, sha256 1059f4db3448c727e841119aa4222d3065d08c4da61c2ab925230763ca01031a) with html-compose.py (the Orange composer) over the page's content sections, after build/ol_markers.py wrote into each ordered-list item the label the browser draws (the page sets the rules' subdivisions as HTML ordered lists, whose labels are not in its text: 327 labels - 192 decimal, 80 lower-alpha, 31 lower-roman and 24 upper-alpha - the counts the browser computed on the live page); the page's opening lines (its heading, effective date, note and links) and its closing Appendices list belong to no chapter; the rule body cut at the chapter headings. Proofs: the composer's (the multiset of non-space characters equals the sections' text less chrome), the labels are the only characters added, the labels match the browser's counts, and the cut reassembles the rule body. The page's “PDF version” link serves a book marked effective January 1, 2027 that carries rules still proposed for comment; it is held with its receipt and a review task, and the page is the source. Review note: Rule 2007 has juvenile petitions and intercounty transfers filed at the North County or South County juvenile facility where the circumstances occurred; Order No. 2025-01 (January 9, 2025; carded) has all juvenile matters filed and heard at the Santa Maria juvenile justice facility unless otherwise ordered (a review task).
Division XI: information forms for data processing (Rule 11.2); required action - action taken on all calendared cases and a future date always set (Rule 11.19); and pro tem judges - an attorney named as a plaintiff in a civil or small claims case may not sit as a judge pro-tem during the case or within six months following its resolution, nor one named as a defendant in two or more such cases (Rule 11.22). Rules 11.1, 11.3 to 11.5, 11.7 to 11.18, 11.20 and 11.21 are repealed, and Rule 11.6 (voluntary arbitration; see Local Rule 10.2) was repealed and renumbered.
Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.