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Sunset's Plan to Abolish TYC

I probably won't have a chance to fully read their report until the weekend, but the papers this morning are full of news that Texas' Sunset Advisory Commission proposed merging the Texas Youth Commission and the Juvenile Probation Commission into a single juvenile justice agency.See initial MSM coverage from the Austin Statesman, the Dallas News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and AP. Both juvenile probation chief Vicki Spriggs and new TYC executive commissioner Cherie Townsend opposed the idea, but Sen. Whitmire dismissed the plan's critics, saying, "Anyone who wants to protect the status quo is going to have a very difficult time justifying their position now."To be fair, I'm not sure there IS a status quo at TYC right now. The place has been in constant flux, yanked first this way then that, for a year and a half with no end in sight...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).