juvenile justice system

Dallas County's Juvenile Department director said staffing changes have lowered violence among juveniles and staff by 90 percent.

A Dallas County juvenile detention center supervision officer continues Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and post-surgery care after a 15-year-old allegedly hit him last April, shattering bones around and below his eye.

The contracts with Collin County to house juveniles are intended to address detention center overcrowding, a move officials call temporary.

Audio recording equipment is intended to hold accountable Dallas County's juvenile board, which oversees detention services and rehabilitation programs.

A Texas Senate bill under consideration would lower the current age from 16 for juveniles already in the system and commit a second felony.

A Dallas County Juvenile Department officer has been at Parkland Hospital since an April 7 incident involving a detainee.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled that because of flawed legal reasoning from lower courts, a juvenile judge must reconsider whether a Houston man will be tried as an adult for a capital murder allegedly committed when he was a teen.

The Texas Supreme Court will decide whether a capital murder case involving a then-16-year-old who was charged when he was 18 should go to adult criminal court or be dismissed entirely.

Dallas County juvenile Board members plan to begin finalist interviews for a new juvenile department director before Thanksgiving.

Joshua Keith Beasley Jr. was taken into custody when he was 11 years old. Five years later, he died by suicide in 2023 in an adult prison in Brazoria County.

The decision against renewing the three contracts came after juvenile board members raised concerns about language on the programs' website.

Three programs aimed at rehabilitating troubled youth will lose funding before the Tarrant County Juvenile Board's next meeting Sept. 18 — without community feedback.