In re J.F.

J.F., a youth appellant, appeals from an Order of Commitment entered by the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, Mineral County. We reverse and remand for a determination of a lesser re*435strictive alternative for disposition of the youth consistent with this Opinion.

This Court summarizes the issues on appeal as being whether the District Court erred in rejecting the dispositional recommendation of the Youth Placement Committee by placing the youth in a secure facility when lesser restrictive measures were available.

J.F.’s first brush with the law occurred on March 11, 1987, when J.F.…