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Fight Crime: Invest in Kids California, is a statewide, bipartisan,
nonprofit, anti-crime organization. The organization has a membership of more than 350 police
chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, other law enforcement leaders and violence survivors.
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Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus, a member of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids California, is
interviewed following the release of an FCIK report showing that investing more federal
dollars in voluntary home visiting programs for at-risk families would prevent child abuse
and neglect and cut crime. View Release
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Jennifer Ortega, State Communications Director
510-836-2050, x305, cell 916-837-3904, jortega@calfightcrime.org
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Oakland Tribune
Poll links latchkey teens to criminal behavior
Jill Tucker
OAKLAND, CA, June 21, 2006- By their own admission, California's latchkey teens
are more likely to engage in criminal activity than their supervised peers, according to a
statewide poll released today.
An estimated 1 million kids in California ranging from 12 to 17 have no supervision after
school three or more days a week ...
Adult supervision, specially in the form of quality after-school programs, can reduce those
rates, said the poll's sponsor, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids ...
Poll results in hand, Fight Crime officials called on legislators to pass a bill that would
make it easier to distribute and spend the Proposition 49 funds ...
"These reforms are necessary because serious financial and administrative barriers currently
keep many kids from participating in great after-school programs," said state Sen. Tom
Torlakson, D-Antioch ...
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