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DA’s office loses jobs of representing foster youths.

This article was from the San Jose Mercury News newspaper. I chose this article because it was the only one in the newspaper that was about San Jose. This article is about local courts not providing lawyers to children in the Juvenile Dependency Court. A nonprofit organization from San Jose will continue to provide the children prosecutors. Santa Clara and Fresno are the only ones in California who are practicing this. Continuing to give the children prosecutors is a great thing. The only problem is that the prosecutors often sought permanent removal of the children when they are trying to reunite them with their parents. Also, the prosecutors often failed to have their client to be present at the hearing. Leslie Hermiv, a woman from the Children’s Law Center of Los Angeles, said that it is a “positive move forward” for the county. We need to have lawyers for children because they also have rights in the country. Listening to the children is as much importance as listening to someone else at a court.

As I read in chapter 14, I listed the choices that the author put. I noticed that he chose to put quotes from other people to support his article. Quoting people will usually give big points to your article.