December 10, 2010
Huber introduces bill to save Preston facility
A capacity crowd filled the Amador County Board of Supervisors chambers Wednesday night as Assemblywoman Alyson Huber unveiled a new assembly bill and convened the third in a series of public hearings in her attempt to save the Preston Youth Correctional Facility from imminent closure.
Huber's newest legislative effort seeks to stop the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from closing any juvenile facility in the state for the next six months.
"Here's the point with Assembly Bill 8," Huber said, "As a state, we should not be making decisions that ... rush to judgment, that are too quick, that we haven't looked at the data, that we haven't thought about the long-term implications of those decisions. And, after meeting with CDCR and looking at the documents that they claim justified the decision to close Preston, I'm still not convinced," she said...
LINK - Ledger-Dispatch.com
