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The Department of Juvenile Justice responded by producing 259 pages of reports with the youths’ names redacted, as allowed under the open records law. They covered incidents from Nov. 19, 2023 ...
In the common law legal system, an expungement or expunction proceeding, is a type of lawsuit in which an individual who has been arrested for or convicted of a crime seeks that the records of that earlier process be sealed or destroyed, making the records nonexistent or unavailable to the general public. If successful, the records are said to ...
The Department of Juvenile Justice has tried to bully the women by filing motions in state court to unseal their juvenile court records, arguing that “the general public has an interest in ...
Criminal records in the United States contain records of arrests, criminal charges and the disposition of those charges. [1] Criminal records are compiled and updated on local, state, and federal levels by government agencies, [2] most often law enforcement agencies. Their primary purpose is to present a comprehensive criminal history for a ...
A deferred adjudication, also known in some jurisdictions as an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (ACOD), probation before judgment (PBJ), or deferred entry of judgment (DEJ), is a form of plea deal available in various jurisdictions, where a defendant pleads "guilty" or "no contest" to criminal charges in exchange for meeting certain requirements laid out by the court within an ...
The report noted staffing shortages and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic — two key issues behind the problems at Kentucky's juvenile detention facilities — are a nationwide problem.
The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice (KYDJJ) is a state agency of Kentucky headquartered in unincorporated Franklin County, near Frankfort. [1] The agency operates juvenile correctional facilities. It was established after a 1996 act of the Kentucky General Assembly. [2]
The U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation into Kentucky’s juvenile justice system comes at a critical moment. The system's new commissioner has warned legislators that several new tough ...