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If found guilty in truancy court, parents/guardians can be charged with a simple misdemeanor. Penalties for the first offense include a fine up to $100 or facing up to 10 days in jail.
In Germany, truancy is prohibited until the age of 18, and parents can be fined up to 1,250 euros or jailed if their child misses too much school. [12] The students themselves can also be imprisoned for truancy from age 14 to 18, because the criminal responsibility age is 14 in Germany. [13]
Cheree Peoples, a Black mother in California, was charged with a criminal misdemeanor under California’s truancy law in 2013 because her 11-year-old daughter, who has sickle cell anemia, missed ...
Truancy Intervention Project, Inc. (TIP) is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization serving children ages 5 to 15 declared truant in the Atlanta City and Fulton County public school systems. Founded in 1991 TIP, previously named Kids in Need of Dreams, Inc. (KIND) , provides positive intervention services to children reported as truant .
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 ...
She told the station that those administrators — citing her son's poor attendance record — already had her arrested for truancy, and that when Wednesday's dispute erupted she was out of jail ...
During the following years, the juvenile court's sole presiding judge and local authorities colluded in the arrest and incarceration of hundreds of children, some as young as seven years old, on various misdemeanor charges, including schoolyard fights, truancy and cursing. At Judge Davenport's instruction, all arrested children were to be ...
A Nevada couple was arrested on Tuesday after authorities found their 11-year-old son with autism held in a metal cage, wearing only a diaper with feces smeared on the cage's floor.