Juvenile Justice

How Parents Should Respond to School Shooting Threats

How Parents Should Respond to School Shooting Threats

Most of us are no longer surprised when a mass shooting takes place at school. As a nation, we have gradually become desensitized to violence...

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Winter Haven Kid Takes Gun to Feel Cool at School

Winter Haven Kid Takes Gun to Feel Cool at School

Fewer than two months after the mass shooting that occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida, a 14-year old in Winter Haven snuck a...

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Volusia County Sheriff to Charge Parents Fines for Threats

Volusia County Sheriff to Charge Parents Fines for Threats

  Teenagers in one central Florida county have gone too far, according to a disgruntled sheriff. Sheriff Mike Chitwood of Volusia County has proposed issuing...

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Teen Auto Theft Spirals Out of Control in Pinellas County

Teen Auto Theft Spirals Out of Control in Pinellas County

Teens in Pinellas County have brought the notorious game Grand Theft Auto into the third-dimension. An epidemic of underage kids strikes every night, stealing cars...

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Central FL Police Arresting Teens Over School Threats

Central FL Police Arresting Teens Over School Threats

After a highly-publicized attack like the Parkland shooting, reports of school violence threats can surge to fifty or more per day all across the country,...

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Escambia County Leads the Nation in Charging Juveniles as Adults

Escambia County Leads the Nation in Charging Juveniles as Adults

More kids in Florida wind up in adult prisons than in any other state. That’s because in Florida, more kids are prosecuted as adults for...

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Florida’s Direct File Law Sends the Most Kids to Adult Prisons

Florida’s Direct File Law Sends the Most Kids to Adult Prisons

More kids in Florida wind up in adult prison than kids in any other state in the United States, and in the state of Florida, Orange...

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Civil Citations Keep Kids Out of Jail in Central Florida

Civil Citations Keep Kids Out of Jail in Central Florida

Orange and Osceola Counties are two regions in central Florida committed to reducing the number of juvenile arrests by issuing more civil citations. Research has shown that...

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Don’t Drink and Jog: College Student Arrested for Jogging Drunk

Don’t Drink and Jog: College Student Arrested for Jogging Drunk

According to a Lower Saucon police report James Finan a DeSales University student was arrested last Saturday morning for jogging while intoxicated. James Finan who...

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Looking to Juvenile Justice in 2014

Looking to Juvenile Justice in 2014

Blog from Attorney Anne Wedge-McMillen In this New Year time of transition and new beginnings, I have had the opportunity to review and consult with...

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How Parents Should Respond to School Shooting Threats
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