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News Briefs for February 2003

Justice Prepares Focus on Child Prostitutes The U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is poised to launch a push...

News Briefs for December 2002 – January 2003

Pedestrian Death Decline May Hide Unhealthy News While the number of child pedestrians killed in auto accidents has been cut in half...

Surprise: Whites Lead Rise In Child Poverty

Children under 18 continue to have a higher poverty rate than older people, but the number of poor youth is not growing...

No More Tax Breaks For Nonprofits

Nonprofits looking for a new home may want to avoid Fairfax County, Va., unless they are prepared to pay property taxes.The county...

Juvenile Justice Chief Dismissed Over Sex Charge

A 35-year veteran of child welfare and juvenile justice, and Kentucky’s first commissioner of its Department of Juvenile Justice, was fired a...

News Briefs for November 2002

Should Convicted Kids Go to Class? Two Philadelphia high school students are suing the school district over a state law that prohibits...

More Black Men In Jail or College?

Are black men more likely to go to prison than college? A new report from a Washington think tank says yes, but...

Bush Chips Away At Youth Health Insurance, GAO Says

Congress should stop the Bush administration from letting states use funds from a children’s health program to insure needy adults, says a...

Death Penalty Foes See Hope at Supreme Court

Juvenile death penalty opponents are heartened by recent signals that several U.S. Supreme Court justices are ready to rethink the executions. Justices...

News Briefs for October 2002

Checking Up on Child Workers: The new head of Florida’s Department of Children and Families, Jerry Regier, said the beleaguered agency will...

Fraud Gets Firm Banned from Anti-Drug Ads

The future of the nation’s youth anti-drug media campaign – its effectiveness already under scrutiny – grew a shade dimmer when the...

Regier Called to Rescue Child Protection in Fla.

Jerry Regier, former head of the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and a leader in government programs to...

Boot Camp Victims Get Their Booty

Maryland’s experiment with juvenile boot camps ended in failure in 1999, but it took a perfunctory vote by the state’s Board of...

Ban Youth From Dangerous Jobs, Report Urges

Youth should be banned from working in poultry plants, construction, trash collection and commercial fishing because the jobs are too dangerous, says...

News Briefs for September 2002

No Faith-Based Sex Ed: The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ordered the state to stop using federal funds...

News Briefs for July-August 2002

DARE Slashed in Hometown: The Los Angeles Police Commission has threatened to cut DARE, the substance abuse program that was founded in...

Violence Spurs Gun Crackdown – In Europe

After a 19-year-old German shot and killed 16 people at his former school in April, European governments are moving to restrict the...

AmeriCorps, VISTA Changes Include Boost for Workers

AmeriCorps volunteers would get more money for education and some VISTA volunteers could work at other jobs under a bill making its...

Lawmakers, Agency Staff Blasted for Losing Foster Child

Incompetence, indifference and dereliction of duty led to the disappearance of little Rilya Wilson from her Miami home, a Florida investigative committee...

Congress Moves on Charity, Gears for Welfare Debate

The Senate Finance Committee last month approved a scaled-down version of legislation to provide incentives to increase charitable giving. The measure includes...