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In Kentucky, Juvenile Offenders’ Names Could be Shared After Adjudication
On Monday, members of the Kentucky House passed a bill that would allow victims in juvenile court trials to discuss a case once a verdict is rendered, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. House Bill...
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Bill Sealing Washington State Juvenile Records Moves Closer to Law
The Washington state House of Representatives unanimously passed a proposal Wednesday that would effectively seal most juvenile records from public view. House Bill 1651 reverses an almost...
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Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Juvenile Code Rewrite
Proposals for a juvenile code re-write were approved Wednesday by Georgia’s state Senate Judiciary Committee, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Last month, the state House passed House Bill 242...
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Georgia’s Juvenile Code Rewrite Passes Senate
Thursday afternoon, House Bill 242 — Georgia’s sweeping juvenile justice reform bill that would also re-write the state’s juvenile code — passed the state Senate vote with unanimous approval. Last...
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Youth PROMISE Act Reintroduced in Washington
Photo courtesy of Congressman Bobby Scott On Thursday, Congressman Robert Scott (D-Va.) and Congressman Walter Jones (R-N.C.) reintroduced the Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring,...
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Overhaul of Nebraska Juvenile Justice System Takes First Step Forward
Photo courtesy of Nebraska State Government Last week, The Lincoln Journal Star reported that state senators in Nebraska gave unanimous approval to Legislative Bill 464 (LB 464), with the proposed...
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HB 242 Clears Final Hurdle, Awaits Signing from Governor
Photo by Benjamin Miller On Monday, House Bill 242– Georgia’s comprehensive juvenile reform and statute rewrite legislation — was approved by the state’s General Assembly. Last week, HB 242 passed a...
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NRA Task Force Wants to Arm School Staff
Former Rep. Asa Hutchinson. Photo by Kaukab Jhumra Smith WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Rifle Association’s task force for improving school safety released a 225-page report Tuesday with a list of...
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Juvenile Justice and Youth Advocates See Impacts from Sequester, Brace for More
Ryan Schill / JJIE In the lead-up to federal budget sequestration, advocates warned of dire consequences for juvenile justice and services to children and youth. Now, with sequestration in effect for...
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Kansas Sheriff Orders Closing of Juvenile Detention Center
Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski. Photo courtesy of Sheriff's office. Inmates at the Saline County Juvenile Detention Center in Salina, Kan. are being transferred to a state-run facility this...
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Massachusetts High Court Upholds Restriction on Gun Permits
SalFalko / Flikr and MCT Direct On Tuesday, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts shot down a petitioner’s claim that a state law — forbidding the issuance of firearm carry permits to individuals...
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Massachusetts Judges to Get Long-Awaited Pay Increase
Fcb981 / Wikimedia Commons Juvenile court judges and their clerks in Massachusetts will see more money in their paychecks in 2014 thanks to a provision in the recently passed $34 billion budget. The...
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The Chicago Bureau Takes a Look at Prospects for a ‘Promising’ Bill for Youth
Steve Liss First introduced to Congress in 2007, the Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education – or PROMISE – Act was reintroduced in March by U.S....
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Indiana High Court Increases Difficulty of Placing Minors on Sex Offender...
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Miller v. Alabama: One Year Later
One summer night in 2003, 14-year-old Evan Miller and one of his friends discovered Cole Cannon, Miller’s neighbor, apparently passed out in his trailer. As Miller pulled $300 out of his neighbor’s...
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Head of Florida DJJ Meets with Protesters Demanding ‘Trayvon Martin Civil...
Dream Defenders / via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DreamDefenders)The Dream Defenders occupy the capitol building in Tallahassee, Fla. On Monday, Florida’s Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ)...
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OP-ED: Troubled Young People Deserve Compassion, Not Punishment
SAN FRANCISCO — At the turn of the 20th Century, Lucy Flower, my grandmother’s great grandmother, established the world’s first juvenile court inside the Cook County courthouse in central Chicago....
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A Decade After Being Passed, States Finally Set to Be Held Accountable for...
Infographic courtesy Campaign for Youth Justice Ten years have passed since the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), a federal law seeking to prevent and better respond to sexual abuse incidents in the...
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Nevada High Court Upholds Law Requiring Registration for Juvenile Sex Offenders
J. Stephen Conn / Flickr (license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en)Nevada Supreme Court, Carson City, Nev. In a narrow 4-3 decision, the Nevada Supreme Court upheld a state law...
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OP-ED: House and Senate Committees Gut Funding to Reduce Racial and Ethnic...
This past week, the House and Senate Appropriators approved substantial reductions in juvenile justice funding, including critical funding to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile...
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