In Re Reginald C.

Following a determination that he had carried a concealed dagger upon his person, Reginald C. appeals from an order that declared him a ward of the court, but allowed him to remain at home with his parents. (See Pen. Code, § 12020, subd. (a).) He contends:

The determinative facts were undisputed. On May 28, 1984, Jill Bogan, a security agent at Nordstrom’s department store located in the Glendale Galleria, had conducted a surveillance of appellant and another minor after she had been informed by sales personnel that the two youths had been in the store the previous day looking at expensive merchandise but refusing assistance. She observed appellant, apparently acting as a lookout, “watching the salespeople and customers in the area” after his companion, Jimmy L., “had selected several pairs of expensive tennis wear and had gone into the fitting room.” After L. had exited he hung up certain of the pieces he had removed from the rack but when Bogan checked the fitting room he had used, she discovered “several empty hangers,” suggesting that other items had been stolen.

Bogan followed the two youths from Nordstrom’s to the Broadway store, also located in the Galleria.…