In re Ramona J. CA2/1

Filed 10/26/22 In re Ramona J. CA2/1 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

In re RAMONA J., a Person B315815 Coming Under the Juvenile (Los Angeles County Court Law. Super. Ct. No. 17CCJP01422)

LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

J.J.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from the jurisdictional and dispositional orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Daniel Zeke Zeidler, Judge. Dismissed.

Suzanne Davidson, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Dawyn R. Harrison, Acting County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel and Brian Mahler, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________

Father J.J. challenges the juvenile court’s order requiring him to submit to weekly random drug testing as part of a case plan imposed after the juvenile court assumed dependency jurisdiction over his daughter Ramona. Father argues that because he did not abuse any controlled substance, the trial court abused its discretion when it ordered him to test for controlled substances. While this appeal was pending, the juvenile court terminated its jurisdiction and rendered the appeal moot. We dismiss the appeal.

BACKGROUND Dependency proceedings commenced in July 2021 when Ramona was one month old. Mother, who is not a party to the current appeal, was born in 1994 and has three children. Mother’s children X.G. and M.G. were dependents of the juvenile court at the time the proceedings involving Ramona commenced.1