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    Recent OPD YOUTH ADVOCACY DOCUMENTS

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    Materials submitted to the Juvenile Justice Reform Council:

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    • Raise the Minimum Age

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    • Probation Reform

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    • Close Youth Prisons

    • Detention and Youth Jails

    • Youth Charged as Adults

    • Diversion

    • Raise the Age

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    Comments to the Prince George's County Board of Education

    in Support of the Resolution to Remove School Resource Officers

    from the Prince George's County Public Schools

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    COVID Litigation Filings

    Comments to the Baltimore Police Department

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    Maryland youth rising

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    Link to our Youth Organizing project

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    OTHER YOUTH RESOURCES

     

    Juvenile Justice Reform Council

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    Department of Juvenile Services

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    Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

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    National Juvenile Defender Center

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    The Anne E. Casey Foundation

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    Juvenile Law Center

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    Campaign for Youth Justice

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    The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth

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    Youth Advocate Programs, Inc.

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    National Conference of State Legislators (Juvenile Justice)

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    Advocates for Children and Youth

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    Community Law In Action (CLIA)

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    Office of the Public Defender           6 St. Paul Street, Suite 1400, Baltimore, MD 21202           1.877.430.5187              jaime.miller@maryland.gov