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NEW ORLEANS - Jefferson Parish and the Department of Juvenile Services have been brought to New Orleans federal court for alleged civil rights violations.
According to a lawsuit filed on March 31, plaintiff Brishawna Silby worked as a juvenile home detention supervisor for the defendant at the Rivarde center from May 2019 until she was demoted in February 2020.
Silby says she was blamed for several incidents at the facility, many of which happened when she was not even present.
She also accuses the defendants of treating her differently because she is an African American female, saying that she was disciplined harshly for trivial events while Caucasian and male employees were lightly reprimanded or not disciplined at all for more serious issues.
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Many Juvenile Jails Are Now Almost Entirely Filled with Young People of Color
Eli Hager, Marshall Project, March 8, 2021
White youths were being released from juvenile detention centers at a far higher rate than their Black peers during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, and young people of color have since been detained for longer than they were before the crisis, according to data gathered by a leading children’s philanthropy.
So many kids were freed from jail last year that by late summer, fewer children were incarcerated than at any point since at least the 1980s. But many youth facilities are increasingly holding almost entirely Black and Latino teens, according to interviews with more than a dozen juvenile justice officials and attorneys in seven states.
Community Members Debate Police Removal From Schools
The Montgomery County Board of Education (BOE) held a public hearing Tuesday in which community members shared pre-recorded statements debating the continued presence of police in schools, otherwise known as the School Resource Officer (SRO) program.
The vast majority of speakers, 24 out of 31, emphatically called for the district to terminate the SRO program citing its inefficacy and harmfulness. They requested that the Board instead direct resources to mental health services and school support staff.
”We need to stop trying to make police something that they’re not,” said Lauren Payne of Richmond High School and president of Young People for Progress. “They’re not there to be mentors. They’re not there to help students. They’re there to police students, and that’s not what students across this county need.”
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