Santa Clara County wants to help homeless people on probation avoid extra jail time by bringing probation officers directly ...

Former Santa Clara Councilmember Anthony Becker has ... He has to meet with county probation officers by Sunday. "Whenever the court sentences someone you look to other cases that have been ...

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Javier Alcala sentenced Becker to two years of probation and 40 days of jail time, but allowed Becker to serve that time through a work service program. The ...

After a nearly two-year legal battle that rocked the Santa Clara community ... for the judge to follow the county probation department’s recommendation and give Becker probation.

An attorney representing former Santa Clara Vice Mayor Anthony Becker is asking a county judge to give the ex-official probation — not jail time — arguing that his conviction late last year ...

SANTA CLARA ... days in jail in addition to two years of probation, Malinsky said. Malinsky serves on the Integrity Unit for the County of Santa Clara and prosecuted the case.

Creating guidelines for probation sentences for youth is not new in California. In March of 2018, Santa Clara County Probation tested a new program called “Probation Dismissal Criteria” that ...

Santa Clara County made changes to now allow probation officers to use their own discretion in deciding whether to arrest a young person for missing a court hearing or school day or leaving a home ...

“As we’ve maintained consistently, we believe the decision on how to proceed with these cases rests with the Santa Clara County District ... followed by probation, delayed degree conferrals ...