Committee codifies youth‑diversion working group, endorses probation‑transformation effort
Lawmakers voted to convert LD 740 into a statutory working group to continue the probation‑transformation and youth community‑supervision initiative. The voluntary Annie E. Casey/NEKC cohort work and pilot sites informed the amendment; the committee approved the change as "ought to pass as amended."
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Representative Grayson Luckner asked the committee to turn LD 740 into a statutory working group to continue Maine’s probation‑transformation work and codify the Youth Community Supervision initiative. The amendment formalizes an ongoing voluntary effort (a cohort with the Annie E. Casey/NEKC Probation Transformation Initiative) to develop pilot diversion sites, improve family‑engaged case planning, and reevaluate juvenile community corrections officers’ duties to support diversion.
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