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State plans DJJ revamp

DJJ Secretary Wansley Walters
DJJ Secretary Wansley Walters

By Sascha Cordner

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Tallahassee, FL – On Tuesday, Florida lawmakers got a sneak peak of a massive effort to reform the state's juvenile justice system. As Sascha Cordner reports, the state's Department of Juvenile Justice Secretary has plans to revamp the state's youth corrections system into the most successful in the nation.

The department's Secretary Wansley Walters says the reform campaign involves the Governor's office, the courts system, and child advocate groups. She says they're all joining forces to form four workgroups to create juvenile justice reform that works:

"There will be an oversight group and then the three sub-groups will be working specifically on the language, hearing input, taking input, and then those will involve prevention and diversion, which is really the front end of our system, courts and process, and then lastly, re-entry and aftercare."

With the help of the Governor's office, Walters says all the people should be selected for their respective workgroups by this coming June.