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New law gives juvenile offenders in Washington state same rights to a lawyer that adults have

By JJIE Staff | August 25, 2021

Defendants who are 18 years old and younger will have the same access to legal counsel as adults in Washington, starting next January. That new law trails another juvenile justice reform, which took effect on July 25, aimed at trimming the number of youth in foster care who wind up in juvenile detention. The latter aims to expand the number of community-based endeavors offering trauma-informed rehabilitative care that is culturally competent and focused on racial equity among youth in the justice system. Currently those less restrictive, community placements are available to 25% of juveniles in the state, according to legislators who drafted the measure. The initiative expanding juveniles’ access to lawyers mandates that juveniles can phone, videoconference or talk in person with a lawyer before waiving any constitutional rights, if a law enforcement officer, among other things:

Questions a youth after advising that person of rights granted under the landmark Miranda ruling.

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Report: Juveniles in pioneering San Francisco detention diversion project were less likely to re-offend than youths on probation

By JJIE Staff | August 19, 2021

Juvenile offenders participating in a 30-year-old project diverting youth from detention to community-based programs were less likely to cycle back into incarceration than those not enrolled in such projects, according to an evaluation recently released by the San Francisco organization launching that pioneering program.

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National judges panel issues guidelines for individualizing juvenile cases and creating behavior-based incentives to shorten time on probation

By JJIE Staff | August 18, 2021

Following its July 2017 resolution urging a shift in how juvenile probationers are supervised, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges recently issued its blueprint for how judges and probation officers help make that happen.

Opinion: Preventing needless punishments, including some student arrests, demands new approaches as classes resume

By Emily Jones | August 18, 2021

A June 2021 report from the U.S. Department of Education found that, from the 2015-16 through 2017-18 school years, there was a 5% spike in the number of on-campus students arrests and a 12% increase in police answering calls to campuses.

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Amid nationwide debate about police in schools, a few districts recently disbanded those units

By Isidoro Rodriguez | August 12, 2021

For Madeline Borrelli, a special education teacher in Brooklyn, N.Y., having NYPD-trained law enforcement officers in schools is a cut-and-dry issue: “School safety agents,” she said, using their official job title, “ … should not exist at all.”

California gun owners living with youth study: Pistol, Gun over case for gun on dark metal table

JAMA: Almost 71% of adult California gun owners living with youth said firearms made their homes safer

By JJIE Staff | August 11, 2021

More than two-thirds of 2,558 Californians living in homes with children or teens who owned firearms and more than half who did not own guns but lived in homes with guns said they believed those weapons made their homes safer, according to a study published this month by the Journal of the American Medical Association's JAMA Network journal.

COVID19 Analysis-Record high blacks and low of white in juvenile facilities

Covid-19 Analysis: Record High of Blacks, Low of Whites in Juvenile Facilities

By Katti Gray | April 22, 2021

The tally of Black youth detained in juvenile facilities during the Covid-19 pandemic reached a record high last January, while the same count for white youth was the second lowest since the Annie E. Casey Foundation started tracking that data. The foundation’s most recent monthly analysis showed that, as of Feb. 1, whites had spent less time in detention than Blacks, who also were incarcerated for longer periods than they’d been detained before the pandemic started. Aimed at measuring the pandemic’s impact on 144 juvenile justice systems across 33 states, the Casey Foundation survey started in March 2020.

By its most recent count, during January 2021, there was a:

6% decline in the population of non-Latinx white youth in juvenile detention. 2% uptick in the population of Latinx youth in juvenile detention.