News Release

For Immediate Release:
September 28, 2007

Contact: Megan Taylor
(916) 319-2028

Assembly Member Caballero Holds Meeting of Assembly Select Committee on Youth Violence Prevention
State "Anti-Gang Czar", Other State Officials, to Describe
State Youth Violence Prevention work

Who:

Assembly Member Anna Caballero, Chair of the Assembly Select Committee on Youth Violence Prevention Select Committee, and committee members Solorio and DeSaulnier

Paul Seave, Director, Office of Gang & Youth Violence Policy

Nancy Matson, Attorney General’s Crime & Violence Prevention Center

Gina Harrington, Branch Chief, Drug & Counter Drug Branch, Office of Emergency Services

Dennis Petrie, Deputy Director, Workforce Services Branch, Employment Development Department

Tony Monreal, Deputy State Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction, Department of Education

Representative from Department of Public Health

What:

Assembly Member Anna Caballero, Chair of the Assembly Select Committee on Youth Violence Prevention Select Committee will conduct a committee hearing to gather information from state agencies and departments that oversee education, health, social services and public safety, about their efforts to help local communities prevent youth violence: 

  • What do they do?
  • How do they coordinate with other state efforts?
  • What do they spend?

When:

Monday, October 1, 2007
10 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Note:  The hearing will be televised.

Where

Room 126, State Capitol

 

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