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Last weekend, from Oct. 20-22, the National Juvenile Defender Center held its 21st Annual Juvenile Defender Leadership Summit in Albuquerque, NM.
During this year’s Summit, topics included challenging the use of electronic monitoring in juvenile court, the impact of social media, acquiring discovery, unfair fines and fees imposed on youth and their families, expunction, and education advocacy. N.C. Juvenile Defender Eric Zogry also joined a panel alongside Joshua Dohan, director of the Youth Advocacy Division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Massachusetts, and Devon Lee, legal counsel for the Office of the State Public Defender in Wisconsin, to discuss the challenges and successes of juvenile defense systems in different states.
Other faculty attending the conference included Teayra Turner, project associate at the National Juvenile Defender Center, Richard Ross, a photographer, researcher and Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of California, Randee Waldman, director of the Barton Juvenile Defender Clinic at Emory University School of Law, and Justice Barbara Vigil of the New Mexico Supreme Court, among many others. Please find the full list of materials, publications, and other resources from the event here.
Useful Tidbits
The Bureau of Justice Statistics has released a new special report on “Federal Prosecution of Commercial Exploitation of Children.” This report examines cases prosecuted in the federal criminal court system between 2004 to 2013 and includes offenses related to the possession and production of child pornography and child sex trafficking.
The National Juvenile Justice Network has released a new policy platform which provides recommendations on improving relationships between law enforcement and youth of color. The recommendations in this document include ending the militarization of law enforcement, racial profiling, and policies on use of force. The full article can be found here.
Strategies for Youth (SFY) has provided two new resources in its October newsletter. The first of these resources, “The Parent Checklist“, is a tool that has been updated to address how school resource officers (SRO) are trained to handle and informed of the conditions of students with special needs and children with immigrant status. The checklist also has sections to evaluate how parents are notified of complaints against their child, how resource officers are trained, the working agreements between law enforcement and schools, and SROs’ relationships with school faculty. The second resource, “Be Her Resource“, is actually only referenced by SFY, but created by the National Black Women’s Justice Institute and the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality. “Be Her Resource” offers insights into the disproportionate contact between for girls of color and law enforcement in schools.
Last Chances and New Opps
We also want to offer one final reminder that applications for the NJDC Gault Fellowship are due on Monday, Oct. 30. Tell any recent law school graduates you know to hurry and get those references, resumes, and cover letters polished! The full details for how to apply can be found here.
NJDC has also distributed info for an opening for a full-time training chief with the Massachusetts-based Committee for Public Counsel and an opening for an assistant public defender for juvenile delinquency in the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. The deadline for applications are Nov. 6 and Nov. 13, respectively.
Those are all of the updates we have for now, but we will be providing more news and activities on next week. Have a great weekend!
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