According to Amador County Chief Probation Officer Mark Giannini, after the Chief Probation Officers in the Sacramento Region, including Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, San Joaquin, El Dorado, Yolo, Sutter, Lake counties heard about the Governor’s plan in which the Division of Juvenile Justice (formerly the CYA) would be cutting their population in half from around 2800 to 1400 a count was taken to see how many kids each County would be getting back.  Of the Chiefs at the meeting, it was a total of about only 50 juvenile offenders for all of the counties that would be returned from the state agency. None of those offenders are from Amador County states Giannini. He adds that Amador County itself has not committed a child to the DJJ in at least 5 years. Currently, Amador County contracts with El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, and Yolo Counties for bed space on a space available basis in the case there is a juvenile detention.

As part of the County Probation Department’s 2007-08 budget, the Department is contracting with El Dorado for 2 guaranteed beds. This means the beds are available to Amador County whether or not the county uses the available beds. Also of note states Giannini- is that this budget goal was achieved without any cuts in other areas. Giannini explains that in the first year of the Governor’s proposed "program", even though Amador County doesn't have any kids in the Division of Juvenile Justice, the county will receive $58,500 (half the $117,000 promised by the Governor for each juvenile returned to local control).  Then in the following years of the program the County would receive $117,000 regardless of any detentions.  Giannini states “We've done a lot with juvenile grant money we've received in the past.  We expect to do good things with this money and do what we can to maintain our streak of no DJJ commitments here in the county”. In conclusion states Giannini, “Juvenile hall bed space shouldn't be an issue for Amador County”