Youth Justice

A Light at the End of a Long Tunnel for JJDPA Reauthorization?

You may recall that Sen. Whitehouse and Sen. Grassley introduced a bill to reauthorize the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) late in the last congressional session. But, clearly Sen. Grassley, now in the majority, is being a leading voice in promoting JJDPA reauthorization, on a strong bi-partisan basis, in the new...

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Use of Juvenile Detention Continues to Decline in 2013

WCCF has just released a Detention Data Report 2013, a summary of data from the Juvenile Secure Detention Register (JSDR) managed by the Department of Justice. All Juvenile Detention facilities are required to report admission data through the JSDR. In 2013 there were 7,695 youth admitted to the state's Juvenile Detention facilities....

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Juvenile Court Records in Wisconsin – Not as Confidential as You May Think!

A recent study, Failed Policies, Forfeited Futures: A Nationwide Scorecard on Juvenile Records, from the Juvenile Law Center ranks Wisconsin on the low end (22%) as it relates to confidentiality of juvenile records and a little above average (56% compared to the national average of 49%) in terms of the potential for a youth to have...

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Changes in Student Discipline Codes – Madison and Beyond

In a Wisconsin State Journal article on Sept. 2, the first day of school for the 2014-15 school year, a number of changes for the Madison Schools are highlighted. Notable among them is a change in the student discipline code that can hopefully keep more youth in the classroom and reduce the number of youth suspended or even expelled....

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