In re N.M. CA1/4

I.

INTRODUCTION

By a petition for extraordinary writ, R.M. (Father) challenges an order made after an 18-month permanency review hearing terminating family reunification services and setting a permanency plan hearing under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.261 for his six-year-old daughter N.M. (the minor). The hearing is set for January 26, 2015. Father contends: (1) the Alameda County Social Services Agency (the Agency) failed to make reasonable efforts to provide him family reunifications services during his

1 All statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

1 incarceration; and (2) the court erred in failing to extend reunification services. We deny Father’s petition.

II.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The parties have set out the details of the these proceedings at considerable length. We recite the facts and procedural history in abbreviated form, leaving out all nonessential facts with respect to the minor’s mother, who is not a party to this writ petition. The then-three-year-old minor was made a dependent of the juvenile court after her parents tried to flee on foot from a stolen vehicle following a police pursuit that ended in a collision.…