In re F.A. CA4/3

INTRODUCTION

F.A. was declared a ward of the juvenile court, subject to the conditions of probation following a stint in juvenile hall. On appeal, F.A. challenges two of the probation conditions on the ground they are constitutionally overbroad. We reject F.A.’s arguments, and therefore affirm the juvenile court’s dispositional order. First, the probation condition that a minor not associate with anyone he or she knows his or her probation officer disapproves of has been determined to be constitutionally valid by the California Supreme Court. Second, the probation condition that a minor obey all orders of his or her probation officer is not constitutionally overbroad.

STATEMENT OF FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY1

On September 4, 2014, then 16-year-old F.A. was riding a bicycle on Highland Avenue (which is in an area claimed by the Fullerton Tokers Town criminal street gang) with another minor, M.D. Fullerton Police Officer Alan Valdisern was on patrol, in uniform and in a marked police car, driving on Highland Avenue, when he observed F.A. and M.D. Valdisern recognized F.A. from contacts he had had with him at F.A.’s high school. Valdisern noticed neither F.A. nor M.D. was wearing…