Bye Bye BeccaBye Bye Becca? Juvenile Defense Training Academy Seattle University Law School. July...
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Bye Bye Becca? Juvenile Defense Training Academy Seattle University Law School July 20, 2019 George Yeannakis, Office of Public Defense
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Bye ByeBecca?
Juvenile Defense Training
AcademySeattle University
Law School
July 20, 2019
George Yeannakis, Office of Public Defense
Becca Laws• Children in Need of Services (CHINS)• At Risk Youth (ARY)• Truancy• Dependent Youth
Becca Laws• Children in Need of Services (CHINS)
Becca Laws
• Dependent Youth
• Purpose • JIM T’s TVW
testimony
Presenter
Presentation Notes
Enabling Stt RCW 101.03
• Process/ Procedure
• Bill report SB 5290
• History—has there always been Becca?
• JJDPA federal cite
BECCA: EXTENT OF USE
Grant County • Substitute for
low level criminal behavior
Clark County • No detention
Maricopa County (AZ)• Administrative
process• Fight crime not
create it
1. Cannot order schools or the department to do anything.
Powers of the Court
2. Can order a limited range of no costrestrictions on youth
Powers of the Court
3. UA’s, no contact, counseling, attendance, prohibited activities.
Powers of the Court
4. Can punish for noncompliance with a Valid Court Order by ordering detention, (community service).
Powers of the Court
5. Fine to parents.Georgia law holds parents not students responsible for absences.
Powers of the Court
• SB 5290 will phase out the use of detention.• Elimination schedule:
1. Dependent Youth2. Truants & Chins
3. ARY
What will be used in its place?• Criminal Contempt (misdemeanor or
felony?) with full panoply of rights.• New CRC’s.• Co-located with detention.
What To Do During the Phase-Out?
What To Do During the Phase-Out?1. Participate in truancy
proceedings. Enter appearances in truancy fact findings or just show up.• Pro Bono representation.• Find a reason the student
requires an attorney IDEA, GR 33, ADA filing requirements.
• Truancy WARNS, family meetings, alternatives, schedule modifications
• ARY Home study.
What To Do During the Phase-Out?
2. Hold school districts and parents to the filing requirements• Filing requirements. • Truancy WARNS, family
meetings, alternatives, school schedule modifications.
• CHINS Home study.• ARY.
What To Do During the Phase-Out?
How to hold school districts to the filing requirements: King County Case
L.W. School District v. C.L. (Dec 27, 2016) Unpublished [Brief in file]
See GR 14.1 (Citation to unpublished opinions)
What To Do During the Phase-Out?
3. Change the language to change the culture. For example:• Illegal aliens to Undocumented• Prostitutes to Commercially Sexual
Exploitation of Children (CSEC)• Truants to Absentee Students• At Risk Youth to …?• Children in Need of Services to …?• Juvenile Offenders to …?
