SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento County officials have for six months housed foster children in cells in a former juvenile detention facility, in violation of state law.
A state agency in February sent the county a letter, obtained by The Sacramento Bee, requiring them to remove the children from the Rosemont “jail-like” unlicensed facility.
County officials still have not done so. Instead they’re asking the state for a license to keep housing children in the facility while they await placement, despite receiving a letter six months ago from a state official strongly advising against it.
