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According to the new report, problems at Texas juvenile facilities have persisted for years, leading the state to place the Texas Juvenile Justice Department under conservatorship in 2007.
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 ...
Youth lockups in Texas remain beset by sexual abuse, excessive use of pepper spray and other mistreatment including the prolonged isolation of children in their cells, the Justice Department said ...
The U.S. Justice Department says that Texas juvenile detention centers have violated children's Eighth and 14th Amendment rights, as well as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and ...
TCA 40-32-101(a)(5) All public records concerning an order of protection [ex-parte, exparte] authorized by title 36, chapter 3, part 6, which was successfully defended and denied by the court following a hearing conducted pursuant to § 36-3-605, shall, upon petition by that person to the court denying the order, be removed and destroyed ...
Most juvenile records are sealed as this will allow the youth to gain a second opportunity, but there are exceptions to sealing records as those individuals that commit serious crimes may be required to complete their sentence in an adult system, therefore unable to get their records sealed. [5] [6] Texas Juvenile Justice Department operates ...
According to a Texas Tribune article published in July of that year, Carter penned a letter to state juvenile probation leaders noting the five locations were halting youth intakes due to staffing ...
Texas expungement law [1] allows expungement (referred to as "expunction" Texas statutes) of criminal records which did not lead to a finding of guilt, certain class C misdemeanors when the defendant successfully completed deferred adjudication, successful completion of deferred prosecution agreements. [1]