Some say task force is shutting down discussion of guidelines for cops in schools.
“We demand investment in our children, not punishment," said David Utter, ACLU's lead counsel.
"We're supposed to be using the juvenile legal system for rehabilitation and not punishment."
The tool's widely-used algorithm may discriminate against people with disabilities or other protected groups.
The number of children separated from their families due to parental substance use has more than doubled in the past two decades...
Online registration was among the expanded forms of voter access that several states implemented in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19...
Arkansas was the first state to enact such a ban on gender-confirming care, with Republican lawmakers in 2021 overriding GOP Gov. Asa...
Students can be ticketed by school resource officers or by local police departments to whom school staff members refer students viewed as...
Since 2007, 18 states have raised to 18 the age at which a person can be criminally charged as an adult, according...
Thomas Wescott, 24, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, said he has been rejected by multiple employers due to a six-year-old conviction for...
Proposed reforms to New Mexico’s juvenile sentencing rules failed to become law for a second year in a row after the bill’s...
America's elite colleges are facing growing calls to end the decades-old tradition of giving an admissions boost to the children of alumni...
Michael is one of dozens of people in New Mexico who received what juvenile justice reformists call “de-facto life sentences” — sentences...
The struggle to reunite a Congolese woman swept up in an immigration crackdown with her little girl — and to reunite countless...