How have courts treated the issue of electronic surveillance in a juvenile court case?

Defense counsel objected to the electronics search condition as "not meeting the requirements of People v. Lent [(1975) 15 Cal.3d 481, 486]." (Italics added.) The juvenile court disagreed, explaining, "It is clearly a tool to ensure that [minor] does not continue in his behavior and conduct that is considered criminal if engaged in by adults, and also to enforce the stay-away provisions of the conditions of probation."³ This appeal followed.

Minor challenges the electronics search condition as unreasonable under People v. Lent (1975) 15 Cal.3d 481, 486 (Lent) and overbroad in violation of his constitutional rights to privacy and private association. The following general principles of law are not in dispute.