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Committee advances juvenile monitoring and mandatory crisis-evaluation amendment after mental-health agency raises capacity concerns
Summary
An amendment to HB 6-29 would authorize GPS monitoring for certain juveniles released before hearing and require crisis evaluations for juveniles adjudicated for threatening mass violence; the committee adopted the amendment and advanced the bill, while the state mental-health agency warned mandatory evaluations could strain resources.
Representative Hardaway presented amendment code 4-485 to House Bill 6-29, which rewrites the measure to authorize juvenile courts to require GPS global-positioning monitoring for a child accused of being delinquent or unruly who is released prior to a hearing. The amendment also requires the operating entity of a GPS system to notify probation officers if a youth violates court-imposed release…
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