Juvenile offenders.

Existing law prohibits a person who has been or is adjudged a ward of the juvenile court on the ground that he or she has violated a law or ordinance defining a crime, other than a curfew based solely on age, from being committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities if that person's most recent offense is not a specified serious or violent offense, or a specified sex offense. This bill would expand the class of persons who may be committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities to include a person described above if he or she was previously the subject of a petition in which it was alleged and was subsequently admitted or found to be true by the court that the ward committed a specified serious or violent offense, or a specified sex offense.