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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Creation of the Youth Justice Bureau to address youth violence
4:30:53
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DA Clark announces the creation of a Youth Justice Bureau to centralize and improve the handling of youth-related cases in the Bronx criminal justice system.
- The bureau aims to more effectively address youth violence and centralize all matters pertaining to youth justice
- It will be staffed with prosecutors and professionals trained to consider diversion programming and alternative dispositions in the court's youth part
- The bureau will address complex issues around 16 and 17-year-olds charged with violent crimes, as per the Raise the Age law
Darcel Clark
4:30:53
We are creating a youth justice bureau to move more effectively, to more effectively address youth violence and centralize all matters pertaining to youth justice.
4:31:04
The bureau will be staffed with prosecutors and other professionals specifically trained to consider whether diversion programming or alternative dispositions are appropriate in the court's youth part.
4:31:17
The youth justice bureau will address the raise the age law that spawned complex issues around 16 and 17 year olds charged with violent crimes.