The Courier-Journal Releases A Special Report on Status Offenders in Kentucky

Over the past few years, the Children's Law Center has been working with stakeholders across Kentucky on the issue of status offenders. This week, the Courier-Journal released a special report on status offenders, which includes a series of stories, interviews, and videos of individuals and stakeholders involved in the issues. Watch one of the videos below and read the full report.

CLC Executive Director Points Out Flaws In Ohio's Serious Youth Offender Law

Kim Brooks Tandy, CLC's executive director, recently wrote a guest post for the blog "Legally Speaking Ohio," which is moderated by University of Cincinnati law school professor Marianna Brown Bettman. In it she discusses the flaws in Ohio's Serious Youth Offender law, which allows a judge to impose a blended sentence on youthful offenders, which results in those youth serving part of their sentence in a juvenile detention facility and part in an adult prison. Tandy writes that law is not truly acheiving what it is meant to acheive, namely giving Ohio youth who commit serious crimes one last chance for rehabilitation.

Click here to read her guest post.