OCEAN CITY, N.J. – One of New Jersey’s iconic beach communities says a state attorney general directive is making policing unruly teenagers more challenging.
“The Mayor’s Office and Ocean City Police Department have been working together to address issues related to large groups of young teenagers causing problems in Ocean City,” the city announced on Monday following reports of large groups of young teens on bicycles creating dangerous situations on the streets and the legendary boardwalk. “Towns throughout the state have been dealing with the same concerns.”
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“The city has also received many calls and emails related to an assault involving female juveniles on Saturday, April 17,” the local government release continues. “Many of the calls appear to stem from incomplete and inaccurate accounts of the incident shared on social media. Three suspects were immediately taken into custody, and the case is being handled to the fullest extent allowed within the
Diversion, Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Youth in the Justice System improved through Toolkit
March 15, 2021
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Six OECS Member States – Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – now have a toolkit to guide the countries’ use of diversion, rehabilitation, and reintegration.
The Toolkit, which was developed in September 2020 by the USAID/OECS Juvenile Justice Reform Project (JJRP II), puts in place a standardized approach to diversion, rehabilitation, and reintegration of youth in conflict with the law, that is in keeping with international standards. It also provides practical information to help inform the development of standard operating procedures in each Member State.
Virtual forum next week will explore youth justice reforms, recommendations for changes
Updated Feb 18, 2021;
Youth Advocate Programs (YAP), Inc., headquartered in Harrisburg, is one of the sponsors for a unique public web event next week that will highlight how a community-based, love-centered continuum of care can serve as an alternative to ineffective youth justice approaches that disproportionately harm Black and Brown youth.
The virtual forum will run from noon to 1:30 p.m. Feb. 25 and will feature leading U.S. youth justice leaders and advocates in addition to a young man who delivers transformative services that not long ago supported his community re-entry.
To create safer neighborhoods in communities beset by high levels of violence, multiple approaches are needed.
Roca, Inc, offers one such approach. Roca seeks out young people who are at risk of engaging in violent acts, engages them in meaningful relationships that build trust, offers them opportunities to learn a set of skills and competencies that might lead to behavioral change, and support them in living into their own dreams. It’s an approach that works, and
Chris Judd and
Carl Miranda will join us to explain how.
Christine (Chris) Judd is the Director of Roca Springfield and Holyoke. Since 2011, Chris has been leading Roca’s work with high-risk young men and mothers in Western Massachusetts. As the Director, Chris oversees the Roca’s High-Risk Young Men, which focuses on young people who are deeply involved in the criminal justice system and are not ready, willing, or able to participate in any other program or jobs. She led the program through major ex
Special report: Young sex abuse survivors, backed by a county attorney, say a new Utah law deprived them of justice
Serial abusers should be tried and punished in adult court, they say.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Annie, now 20, was 16-years old when a classmate in high school raped her and then told her from that moment on, You re my girlfriend, but I m not your boyfriend. From that moment on, he stalked her almost daily. San Juan County Attorney Kendall Laws said he wanted to prosecute Annie s attacker in adult court for sexual assault, but a gap in the law prevented him from doing so.