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Sacramento County (/ ˌ s æ k r ə ˈ m ɛ n t oʊ / ⓘ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,585,055. [6] Its county seat is Sacramento, [7] which has been the state capital of California since 1854. Sacramento County is the central county of the Greater Sacramento metropolitan area.
Dorothea Helen Puente ( née Gray; January 9, 1929 – March 27, 2011) was an American convicted serial killer. In the 1980s, she ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and murdered various elderly and mentally disabled boarders before cashing their Social Security checks. [ 1] Puente's total count reached nine murders; she was ...
The California Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), previously known as the California Youth Authority (CYA), was a division of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that provided education, training, and treatment services for California 's most serious youth offenders, until its closure in 2023.
The Continuum of Care Reform, a California law passed in 2015, phased out most group homes in favor of family placements as the best way to keep more kids in school and out of jail.
Police say they have located an at-risk south Sacramento teen who went missing Saturday. The 14-year-old was considered at risk due to his age, police said in a news release about 7 p.m.; by 1 a.m ...
Murdered two teenagers eating cheeseburgers in a supermarket parking lot; executed in 1992, first person executed in California since 1967 [15] [16] 10: Moscone–Milk assassinations: San Francisco: 1978-11-27: 2: San Francisco Supervisor Dan White shot Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk [17] 11: Keddie murders: Keddie: 1981-04-11: 4
A trio of teenagers including a 13-year-old Sacramento boy were arrested by authorities in Solano County after police said they carjacked a woman in Sacramento and robbed a Walgreens.
Sacramento County Sheriff's Explorers. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office Explorer Program is for teenagers and young adults, 14–20 years of age. The program is a well rounded P.O.S.T. approved curriculum that prepares the Explorers for a future in law enforcement and other community service-based careers.