{"id":28434,"date":"2016-12-14T15:25:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T23:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=28434"},"modified":"2016-12-14T15:25:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T23:25:56","slug":"st-louis-county-family-court-agrees-stop-racially-discrimnination-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=28434","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis County Family Court Agrees to End Racial Discrimination Practices Against Black Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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St. Louis County Family Court agreed to reform its courts to solve the department’s findings of serious and systematic violating the constitutional rights of black youth, according to federal officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Department of Justice wants to protect juveniles by making sure they get due process and equal protection under the law.<\/span><\/p>\n

To read the entire agreement click here: Department of Justice<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This is the fourth agreement the department has entered into under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to address constitutional violations within a juvenile justice system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The investigation into Family Court, opened in November 2013, was conducted by the Civil Rights Division\u2019s Special Litigation Section under provisions of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In July 2015, \"LADYJUSTICE\"the department issued a findings letter concluding that the St.\u00a0Louis County Family Court violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution by failing to ensure that juveniles facing delinquency charges receive adequate due process protections and failing to provide black youth in the juvenile justice system with equal protection under the law.<\/span><\/p>\n

The department has opened four national cases examining whether juvenile justice systems comply with children\u2019s rights since 2009:<\/span><\/p>\n