In re Jacquelyn B. CA5

Filed 8/21/15 In re Jacquelyn B. CA5

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

In re JACQUELYN B. et al., Persons Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law.

TUOLUMNE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF F070568 SOCIAL SERVICES, (Super. Ct. Nos. JV7295, JV7296, Plaintiff and Appellant, JV7297)

v. OPINION R.T. et al.,

Defendants and Respondents.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Tuolumne County. Donald Segerstrom, Judge. Sarah Carrillo, County Counsel, and Christopher Schmidt, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Appellant. Neale B. Gold, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Respondent R.T. Jacob I. Olson, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Respondent C.T. No appearance for Defendant and Respondent Robert B.

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The Tuolumne County Department of Social Services (the department) appeals from orders of the juvenile court, entered at the 18-month review hearing in October 2014, extending, for six months, reunification services for R.T. (mother) and C.T. (father), the parents of three dependent children, Jacquelyn B. (born Sept. 2001), Shyanne T. (born Dec. 2006), and Shaun T. (born Aug. 2010).1 The department contends the juvenile court erred in finding the parents qualified for the benefit of additional reunification services under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.22, subdivision (b).2 We shall dismiss the appeal as moot. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND In March 2013, the children were placed in protective custody due to the parents’ methamphetamine use and related incarcerations. Mother was arrested on drug-related charges on March 18, and father was arrested for a probation violation on March 20, after he tested positive for methamphetamine. At the time of father’s arrest, he and the children lived in a motel room with a pit bull, the room was a mess, and at least the two younger children were filthy. The juvenile court subsequently detained the children and exercised its dependency jurisdiction over them. At the dispositional hearing in May 2013, the juvenile court removed the children from parental custody and ordered the parents to comply with a dependency drug court family reunification case plan. Mother was jailed until late July 2013. She later spent four months in residential drug treatment but did not complete the program. However, after she was released, mother tested clean and participated in other services included in her drug dependency court reunification services plan and her other conditions of probation.