Opinion No. (1998)

DANIEL E. LUNGREN Attorney General CLAYTON P. ROCHE Deputy Attorney General THE HONORABLE SUSAN MINASIAN, COUNTY COUNSEL, BUTTE COUNTY, has requested an opinion on the following question: Is a ward of the juvenile court (Welf. Inst. Code, § 602 ) who is ordered to serve time in the county jail upon reaching the age of 18 as part of the court's dispositional order entitled to work and good behavior extra time credits (Pen. Code, § 4019 )? CONCLUSION A ward of the juvenile court (Welf. Inst. Code, § 602 ) who is ordered to serve time in the county jail upon reaching the age of 18 as part of the court's dispositional order is not entitled to work or good behavior extra time credits (Pen. Code, § 4019 ). ANALYSIS Under the Juvenile Court Law (Welf. Inst. Code, §§ 200 - 987 ), 1 a person under the age of 18 who violates a state or local ordinance may be adjudged to be a ward of the juvenile court (§ 602 ). In its dispositional order, the court may place the ward in a variety of settings geared toward rehabilitation of the juvenile (§§ 727 - 735 ), but not in an adult facility such as a county jail (In re Kirk G. (1977) 67 Cal.App.3d 538 ,…