CASE OF INTEREST

Date: June 1, 2004

Contact: Natalia Luna, Deputy District Attorney
Telephone: (916) 874-5038

District Attorney Jan Scully announces that $17,000 in restitution proceeds from the prosecution of People v. Bernard et al. will be presented to Youth Guidance Connection. The Youth Guidance Connection is a community based non-profit organization that provides young people and their families with positive alternatives to negative behaviors and actions. Youth Guidance Connection has formed a partnership with Saybrook Apartments, a new affordable housing project for homeless families.

Youth Guidance Connection has used the restitution money to create an on-site computer-learning center at the Saybrook Apartments. The center will provide after-school services for school aged children.

In 2004, Community Prosecutor Natalia Luna successfully prosecuted George Bernard and others for maintaining a run-down, crime-infested abandoned hotel on the very same property that is now the Saybrook Apartments. The restitution money that came out of the prosecution went right back - literally - into improving that project. Thanks to the efforts of the Community Prosecution Unit working alongside with members of our community and other County agencies we have formed a new community that will benefit everyone.

Please join District Attorney Jan Scully as she presents a $17,000 check to Youth Guidance Connection at the Grand Opening of the Saybrook Apartments:

Wednesday, June 2, 2004
10:00 am
4390 47th Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95824

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