Tulare County (Visalia)
When a youthful probationer recently appeared before Tulare County Superior Court Judge Hugo J. Loza, the veteran jurist realized there was a problem: The boy and his mother were homeless and living in a rural area, far from the crime diversion program to which the boy had been assigned.
Loza, currently the supervising juvenile court judge, has wide experience with the delinquency and dependency cases that crowd his docke... (continued)