U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) listens to Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during the second day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee to become Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, on Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
Two Georgia juvenile court judges on Monday told U.S. Sen Jon Ossoff that the head of the state’s child welfare agency asked judges to violate state law by keeping some children inappropriately locked in juvenile detention centers.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Photo: flickr/Wikimedia Commons
The judges said during a hearing in Atlanta that Human Services Commissioner Candice Broce asked judges to order children with mental and behavioral problems detained by the Department of Juvenile Justice while the state’s Division of Family and Children Services looked for a place to house them.
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