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The new truancy law was signed in May and went into effect in July. ... Penalties for the first offense include a fine up to $100 or facing up to 10 days in jail. ... and for a third offense they ...
Parents of homeschooled children or pupils enrolled in private schools were required to report the location of their children's schooling to a truancy officer. Failure to comply with the school attendance law could result in proceedings in youth courts and the levying of a $1,000 fine or a year's incarceration for parents of truant children.
Truancy is any intentional, unjustified, unauthorized, or illegal absence from compulsory education. It is a deliberate absence by a student's own free will and usually does not refer to legitimate excused absences, such as ones related to medical conditions.
The measure required that money saved as a result of the measure, would be spent on "school truancy and dropout prevention, victim services, mental health, and drug abuse treatment, and other programs designed to keep offenders out of prison and jail." [5]
"This trend of a sudden spike in year 2020 of violent criminal offenses by juveniles in Louisiana directly mirrors a 2020 spike in truancy cases throughout our state."
In the wake of Jennifer and James Crumbley’s sentencing to at least 10 years in prison after their teenage son killed four high school students, many are left wondering if parents should be held ...
Deinstitutionalization: Youths charged with "status" offenses that would not be crimes if committed by adults, such as truancy, running away and being caught with alcohol or tobacco, must be "deinstitutionalized", which in this case really means that, with certain exceptions (e.g., minor in possession of a handgun), status offenders may not be ...
The truancy diversion program, she said, is the first contact with the system for many youth. She worked with with the state and other counties, and increased funding to $795,000 in her second year.