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Federal Funding Hinders Juvenile Justice Reform
The federal government expects the states to do more to prevent delinquency but is offering up less money to help with the problem. That’s a formula for tension, which became apparent this week as a...
View ArticleJudge Steve Teske: The Road to Jericho
I met him after only a few weeks on the bench. His name was Johnny and he was thirteen. He had been detained for disorderly conduct and disruption of school charges. He mouthed off at a teacher using...
View ArticleHiding in Plain Sight: First Time Survey of Georgia’s Homeless Young People
If you were expecting Dickens, forget it. Homeless kids in Georgia do not have a special look. They’re hiding right in front of you. That’s the first thing we learned from Mary, who looks like any...
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Family Feud Part 2
The Georgia House of Representatives has nixed the absorption of the Family Connection Partnership and its funding into the Governor’s Office of Children and Families (GOCF), an agency created in 2008...
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Georgia Governor’s Office of Children and Families Executive Director to Resign
Bennecke The Juvenile Justice Information Exchange has obtained an email that says the Georgia Governor’s Office for Children and Families (GOCF) Executive Director Jennifer Bennecke will resign August...
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