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Delegate Griffith outlines three school-safety bills on juvenile registry and reportable offenses
Summary
Delegate Griffith described three bills to give school systems limited access to juvenile‑offender information, to add certain convictions (including production/distribution of child sexual material and credible threats) to reportable offenses, and to permit limited notification when a juvenile is a suspect in a violent felony, with guardrails to limit stigma.
At the Harford County Delegation meeting, Delegate Griffith outlined a package of bills aimed at giving school administrators more information to protect students while limiting stigma and preserving due process.
Griffith said the first proposal would give school systems access to the juvenile offender registry so schools would not unknowingly place a victim and an offender in the same classroom. He described the current situation as…
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