Family Law

• Guardianship
  The adverse emotional impacts on the child in losing the love and guardianship of their parents to the dubious control of strangers, and the distress of their parents, are not considered.
• Child Abuse
  Accompanying that bill is Assembly Bill 665 – 2023-24. (AB665), written by a Democrat, Wendy Carrillo. It allows a single “mental health professional” to place a child as young as 12 years old in a “Residential Shelter Facility” without parental knowledge or consent. This is without any prior allegations of child abuse, incest, or any other report or evidence of maltreatment by that child’s parents. Your Assemblyman Gregg Hart, D-Santa Barbara. voted for this.

Criminal Law

• Sex Crimes
  After experiencing three years of increasing crime rates, the communities served by the Sheriff’s Office experienced a 12% decrease in overall Part 1 violent crime, which is 6% lower than the preceding 10-year average. The most significant decreases in violent crime, as compared to last year, occurred in homicide (33% decrease), rape (16% decrease) and robbery (18% decrease).
• Robbery
  Part 1 crimes are further broken down into two subcategories: violent crimes and property crimes. Part 1 violent crimes are offenses that involve force or a threat of force and include criminal homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Part 1 property crimes are theft-related offenses that do not involve threats or force against the victim, including burglary, larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft.
• Burglary
  Part 1 property crimes also decreased significantly from the previous year by 13%, which is also a 7% decrease against the 10-year average. Statistically, relevant decreases in Part 1 property crime, when compared to the previous year, were seen in burglary (23% decrease), theft (11% decrease), and motor vehicle theft (25% decrease).
• Theft
• Assault
• Homicide
• Hit and Run
  Approximately 10 minutes following the shooting, members of the California Highway Patrol and Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call of a hit-and-run traffic collision involving the same vehicle.

Property Law

• Land Use and Zoning