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Davenport controlled the county's juvenile justice procedures. [1] [6] In 2003, Judge Davenport issued a memo which was interpreted to order that, after a summons is issued, law enforcement officers must always physically arrest the child, and take them to the county's detention center—despite Tennessee state law which requires that, for many ...
The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA) is a Uniform Act drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 1997. [1] The UCCJEA has since been adopted by 49 U.S. States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Upon graduating from law school, Mizelle served as a law clerk to Judge James S. Moody Jr. of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida from 2012 to 2013 and to Judge William H. Pryor Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from 2013 to 2014.
A federal judge on Friday approved the Biden administration’s request to partially end a nearly three-decade-old agreement to provide court oversight of how the government cares for migrant ...
Ex-Judge Michael Conahan, the jurist at the center of the so-called “Kids-for-Cash” scandal, was among 1,499 commutations Biden granted in the largest presidential act of clemency on a single day.
Migrant children who wait in makeshift camps along the U.S.-Mexico border for the Border Patrol to process them are in the agency's custody and are subject to a long-standing court-supervised ...
Childs was born in 1966 in Detroit, Michigan. [1] [2] Her parents divorced when she was young.Her father, Ralph "Pete" Childs, was a champion table tennis player who won the U.S. Junior Championship in 1964 at age 16; he joined the Detroit Police Department as an officer in 1970. [3]
They are appointed by a judge, and their role is to gather information and make recommendations in the best interest of the child, keeping the child's personal wishes in mind. [ 2 ] According to the National CASA Association, there are more than 93,000 volunteers nationwide, serving in 49 states and the District of Columbia.