In re Josiah J. CA1/3

BACKGROUND

In July 2016, the juvenile court sustained jurisdictional allegations as to Josiah under section 300, subdivision (b) as follows: that Mother maintained a loaded firearm in the residence where it was accessible to her children; that she was involved in an altercation with law enforcement in front of the children, and while using a firearm in an unsafe manner; that Mother was suffering from depression and alcohol abuse; and that Father had committed domestic violence. Josiah and two older siblings were placed with relatives for a period of years, but in January 2021 he returned to Mother’s home. By September 2021 the court convened a family maintenance review hearing under section 364. In the reporting period leading up to this hearing, Father had had hour-long visits supervised by the Solano County Health & Social Services Department (Department). At the hearing, the recommendation of the Department was that Father’s visits remain supervised. Father contested this aspect of the recommendation, so the matter was continued to October 4, 2021. The juvenile court heard testimony at the October 4 hearing that Father previously had a criminal case involving Mother, in which…