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Juvenile probation departments may lose federal funds for administrative costs

By Gritsforbreakfast

I'd mentioned last week that the Texas juvenile probation system received a boost of $57.9 million in its state budget for this biennium, and legislators were surprised their caseload hadn't risen as anticipated.I wanted to follow up on that, because it severely misstated matters to imply juvie probation budgets went up by that amount. The were supposed to, but that's not what's actually happening on the ground.At a Senate Finance Committee hearing April 22, Texas Juvenile Probation Commission director Vicki Spriggs told the committee about a likely revenue shortfall facing county juvenile justice systems because of a proposed rule reinterpretation that could reduce their federal "Title 4E" funding by $54 million this biennium. News of this federal decision, she said, came after the end of the 80th legislative session...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 28, 2008 (boomark / email).