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A bill that would make some criminal confessions by juveniles inadmissible in court is one of three police reform bills approved by the Connecticut Senate on Thursday.
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Suffolk County Police arrested a 12-year-old boy for stabbing a fellow student at Lindenhurst Middle School.
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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has signed a law that expedites court appearances for juvenile offenders, gives Superior Court judges the option to put minors on GPS monitoring and allows law enforcement broader access to juvenile records.
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Republicans and even some Democrats, like New York City Mayor Eric Adams, have called for rollbacks to the state’s “raise the age” law that took 16- and 17-year-olds charged with non-violent crimes and charged them as youth instead of adults. Now, new research points to limited public safety benefits of these laws.
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House Speaker Matt Ritter said lawmakers tweaked the bill to take into consideration concerns about a provision that called for more GPS monitoring of juvenile offenders.
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Lamont’s bill includes a series of initiatives and investments to provide law enforcement and communities the resources to tackle juvenile crime and violence.
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Republicans are concerned about a surge of juvenile crime. But Democrats are opposed to any rollback of the law enforcement reforms that were passed in the wake of the George Floyd protests in 2020.
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Connecticut and New York receive good marks for student mental health, but could more be done?
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Connecticut Senate Republicans want to toughen laws around juvenile crime. Democrats say the plan would undo important advances in the justice…
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30% of Connecticut residents have not received the COVID-19 vaccine. Suffolk County is deciding how they’ll spend opioid settlement money, New London…