Dallas County officials are sharing the blame for a juvenile justice system which a recent report says has led to more children locked up for longer periods...
“I can say, and I will say, people have their own agenda, and I’m trying to go through this and figure out what everybody’s agenda is,” Shannon said at the board’s regularly scheduled meeting on Monday.while national court associations recommend that 75% of children in detention centers have their case resolved within 30 days, only 1% of Dallas cases are resolved that quickly.
“I’m so sick of our process,” he said. “This report is very clear about having a failure to communicate collaboratively in the best interest of our children, our young people.” Dallas convicts more children of crimes, sending more to the state’s youth prisons than other counties. The state aggregate number of committed children is 2.1%, Dallas’ rate is 3.2%.
She said the report compared counties with different processes and different court operations. Some courts, Shannon said, handle just juvenile cases while others also look at child welfare cases. While Dallas County could do “something different” on how many children are sent to detention centers, Shannon said the report did not look at impacts on other counties where more children received probation instead of being sent to detention centers. She questioned if there were community safety issues in other counties.that the report focused on process rather than outcomes. The focus of the report on the judicial process found his own office partially culpable.
Creuzot said in an interview that the report enlightened staff to alternatives to sending a child through a formalized court process, known in the juvenile system as a petition.
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