In Re Hadley B.

Rich Pfeiffer, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for the Minor, Appellant, and Real Party in Interest, Hadley B.

Roni Keller, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant, Respondent, and Real Party in Interest Cam B.

Janette Freeman Cochran, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Los Angeles, for Defendant, Respondent, and Real Party in Interest Dung D.

ARONSON, Acting P.J.

Orange County Social Services Agency (SSA) and minor, Hadley B., appeal the juvenile court's order dismissing a dependency petition after refusing to allow an amendment to include evidence of incidents occurring outside Orange County. In a second dependency petition on behalf of the same minor, the juvenile court struck all allegations of acts outside Orange County and of those litigated in the first petition. SSA filed a petition for extraordinary relief from the rulings on the second petition. [1]

On the appeal, we find the juvenile court erred in dismissing the original dependency petition and reverse, directing the juvenile court to dismiss the second petition, accept amendments to the original petition, and conduct another jurisdictional hearing. We deny the petition for…