Term ‘At-Risk Youth’ Replaced With ‘At-Promise Youth’ In California Penal Codes

California politicians reinvent the dictionary again

California is at it again, editing language to alter reality.

First San Francisco changed “felon” to “justice involved person.”

Now California will refer to “at risk youth” instead as, “at promise youth.”

Legislation went into effect at the beginning of this year which changed the state’s legal term for children at risk of entering the criminal justice system.

The point is to change the negative connotation of the phrase “at risk”.

Uplifting, right? But these people always fail to understand that changing words doesn’t change reality.

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