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Group Wants Governor to Sign Juvenile Justice Bills
The Juvenile Justice Initiative is happy with its accomplishments during the spring legislative session, and hopes the governor will sign a group of measures that it supports.

The group's policy advocate, Mary Reynolds, says one measure will let an existing group -- the Juvenile Justice Coalition -- rather than a new task force study whether 17-year olds who are charged with felonies can be tried as juveniles in Illinois. A change last year put 17-year olds back in the juvenile court system if they are charged with misdemeanors.

Another bill would allow counseling or community service or both in sexting cases. Reynold says many of the kids charged with this new crime are 12 or 13 years old, and says they don't understand the impact of passing nude photos along to others. This measure would not affect the person who took the photos and first distributed them without permission. A third bill would protect the information obtained during mental health screening services. Reynolds says it's critical that these kids are fully open in that part of the process, without the fear of incriminating themselves.

(Illinois Radio Network)
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