State officials, advocates and researchers are urging federal officials to tread carefully as they consider changes to how states demonstrate they are protecting juveniles in custody.
They say that if the rules become too strict, cash-strapped states that find themselves out of compliance could abandon the federal program designed to help juveniles entirely.
“This would inevitably lead to wider variances between and within states in terms of the efficacy, equity and efficiency of juvenile justice systems; and would ultimately lead to poorer outcomes for youth,” said the Coalition of Juvenile Justice (CJJ), a trade group that represents juvenile justice state advisory groups, in a comment letter responding to proposed changes.
CJJ’s comments are similar to scores of others submitted to the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) about a proposed rule officialsissued in August.
[For more of this story, written by Sarah Barr, go to http://jjie.org/states-advocat...-regulations/327743/]
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