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In other business, a juvenile justice grant will allow Monroe County to continue offering young offenders alternatives to jail. The fifty-four thousand dollar grant comes from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative.
Deputy Chief Probation Officer Troy Hatfield says the county’s circuit court and probation department have been offering alternatives to juvenile detention since 2014.
Commissioner Peggy Githens discussed the grant with Hatfield. The funding is to be divided between coordination and programming. Hatfield says a committee to address race, equity and inclusion is being formed as a new aspect of the initiative. The move is in response to growing concern over the disparity between incarceration rates of white youth, and youth of color.
