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Would juvie probation be de-prioritized if merged with TYC?

While I remain agnostic about its core suggestion of merging the Texas Youth Commission and the Juvenile Probation Commission, the Sunset Advisory Commission staff report (pdf) provides a unique overview of the juvenile justice system across agencies and jurisdictions and supplies what will inevitably be the framework for debate over what happens at the Lege next spring.Counties provide the backbone of the juvenile justice system, even if most of the debate publicly always seems to surround TYC (and now TJPC). Here's an excellent summation from the Sunset report of the system's broad outlines:Texas counties supervise by far the most youth and outspend state and federal governments in Texas? state-local juvenile justice system. Although driven largely by county initiatives, the State plays two key roles in the overall system...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).