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The director of Clark County Juvenile Justice Services has been placed on leave. County officials confirmed with Channel 13 that John Munoz was placed on administrative leave as of July 9 due to an ongoing investigation into the department.

Nearly 100 people are alleging in a federal lawsuit that they were physically or sexually assaulted while in juvenile detention and correctional facilities operated in Nevada over the last quarter century.

A North Carolina jury convicted a man for carjacking a truck from a McDonald’s parking lot by holding something “cold and hard” on the driver’s neck. A federal appeals court overturned the conviction in 2016, citing insufficient evidence.

Tonight, voters approved a ballot measure that adds the City of Philadelphia Office of the Youth Ombudsperson to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter, making it a permanent City agency. Young people in youth prisons, foster group homes, and behavioral health placements now have a permanent advocate they can reach out to report abuse or mistreatment without fear of retaliation.

Gov. Josh Shapiro recently stated that his office supports codifying a statewide Office of the Child Advocate (OCA) and, importantly, wants the office to have “teeth.” This comes in the wake of yet another tragic death of a child in the system. One thing is clear — Pennsylvania’s children cannot afford to wait for this office to be reinstated with authority.

A measure on Tuesday’s ballot could make permanent a small Philadelphia program that monitors quality of life for youth in foster homes, behavioral health treatment, and correctional facilities.

Hawaiʻi is poised to become one of the first states in the nation to require a judge to consider a child’s exposure to trauma before charging the youth as an adult. Senate Bill 2108, which would also bar minor victims of trafficking or sexual assault from being charged as adults for going after their abuser, is the state’s latest juvenile justice reform.

On Friday night, May 8, a massive group of teens descended on Tampa’s Curtis Hixon Park for what’s referred to as a “teen takeover,” a

Lawmakers are renewing a push to end the practice of Pennsylvania counties diverting Social Security benefits owed to children in foster care into their own