Juvenile Justice Committee

Chair: Anne Lee

The mission of the Juvenile Justice Committee is to work with justice partners to focus attention, inquiry, and action on addressing bias and undoing institutional racism in the juvenile justice system and juvenile courts that allow for disparities for youth of color to persist.

Goals of the JJ Committee include developing recommendations and action steps to:

• Expand the ways that youth can be diverted away from juvenile justice involvement.
• Review the types and utilization of detention alternatives in Washington and leverage and increase their use beyond those achieved through the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI).
• Shift the paradigm of juvenile justice from corrections/"rehabilitate" to one that is trauma informed, restorative, and positively transformative.
• Reduce lifelong impacts of juvenile justice involvement, like debt, juvenile records, registration and other stigma.
• Develop race equity impact tools and statements for proposed rules, guidelines, laws, and policies.