What's on our radar this week
Every Wednesday, Juvenile Law Center gathers the latest studies, reports, and headlines from around the country. Here's what we've been reading:
- Apparently, you have to spend $80 million ono including youth in sex offender registration and notification laws before you can reap $1 million in benefits.
- A new ground-breaking report on girls in the juvenile justice system underscores deeply rooted, systemic gender injustice.
- Youth Justice Awareness Month (#YJAM) starts October 1.
- American Academy of Pediatrics released a new policy statement recommending more frequent medical evaluations of youth in foster care.
- Stickup Kid, a documentary on what happens when a youth is sent to an adult prison, won an Online Journalism Award.
- Ohio state legislature is considering a bill to extend foster care to age 21.
- Foster care by the numers: HHS reports the number of children in foster care increased by over 14,000. As the number of youth in foster care increases, the number of kids being adopted from foster care is decreasing, at it's lowest point in a decade.
- Arkansas county court is trying to figure out how to handle the backlog of juvenile records that should have been destroyed according to state law.
- Almost half of Arizona's counties have implemented detention alternatives as part of the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI), and the Chronical of Social Change re-caps the JDAI Inter-site Conference in Phoenix where the release of a new guide on LGBTQ youth in the juvenile justice system is anticipated.
- Unchain Louisiana is determined to end automatic shackling of youth in courts. To date, 21 states have banned the practice.
- California passes a law limiting strip searches of youth in custody.
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