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Legal and social experts push for family counseling over incarceration for juveniles
August 19, 2010
Carroll County Times-Georgian
Carroll County child advocates recently told a Georgia Senate subcommittee that when dealing with juvenile crimes known as “status offenses,” counseling for the entire family of the youth should be an alternative to locking the child up with more serious delinquents. Read the Full Article...
Maintaining School Safety & Opportunity
August 19, 2010
Appleseed
Ensuring educational opportunity for all students requires public schools to accomplish two goals at once: maintaining a safe learning environment while providing effective discipline for those children whose non-violent problem behaviors can be remedied at school. Read the Full Article...
Getting Smarter
August 14, 2010
Savannah Morning News
Georgia's juvenile law code should be overhauled to give state judges more options that get at the heart of bad behavior. Child advocates in Georgia are asking a valid question: Would an "unruly child"--found to have skipped school or imbibed alcohol or run away from home--be better helped by jail time or by services? Read the Full Article...
Children in Need of Services
August 10, 2010
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
Anyone passing by room 450 at Georgia’s capitol on Monday probably thought lawmakers were talking about facial parts. The Senate Judiciary Committee was actually discussing CHINS—the acronym for Children in Need of Services—an important concept in the rewrite of the state’s juvenile code. Read the Full Article...
Guest Column - Juvenile Code Re-Write:It's About Time
June 2009
Voices for Georgia's Children
Just prior to adjournment of the Georgia General Assembly's 2009 session, I introduced SB 292 - the Child Protection and Public Safety Act - a bill intended to help the state revise its Juvenile Code. This is an important piece of legislation designed to improve the manner in which our courts interact with children. Read the Full Article...
Senator Hamrick to introduce Child Protection & Public Safety Act
April 2, 2009
JUSTGeorgia
State Senator Bill Hamrick (R-Carrollton) today initiated a sweeping revision of the state's Juvenile Code by introducing a 228-page bill designed to modernize and streamline the 38-year-old crazy quilt of laws that govern the way the state dals with children who are pulled into the state's civil and criminal justice system. Read the Full Article...
Juvenile code revision proposed; some hope for legislative revision this session
January 18, 2009
John Bailey - Rome News-Tribune
Almost everyone agrees that Georgia’s juvenile justice system needs to be revamped, but there appears to be some disagreement about how it should be done. "Common Wisdom: Making the Case for a New Georgia Juvenile Code" was released in December by the Georgia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice and Just Georgia, a nonprofit legal advocacy group for children. Read the Full Article...
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BC classes to focus on legal issues
August 28, 2009
Marcia McRae
Bainbridge College students will have the opportunity during fall semester to learn from two women attorneys who work with the Georgia Appleseed project, an organization that annually recognizes distinguished pro bono leadership that exemplifies the organization’s values and goals for its mission. Read the Full Article...
Georgia Appleseed's Heir Property Project
May 2009
Crystal Chastain Baker, Georgia Appleseed - Georgia State Bar Real Property Law Section Newsletter
Heir property is a relatively unknown term in the Georgia legal community. When "heir property" is mentioned, people usually look up to the sky, wondering perhaps why a strong public-interest law center and notable campaigner for social justice like Georgia Appleseed is concerned with 'Air Property.' Well, the precise reason is because an entire group of Georgians who are disadvantaged and marginalized face the threat of great social and economic losses due partly to a lack of knowledge about the issue of Heir Property. Read the Full Article...
Heir Property Project
Summer 2009
Crystal Chastain Baker, Georgia Appleseed - Georgia State Bar Real Property Law Section Newsletter
All real estate attorneys have seen those properties- the ones with titles that seem impossible to clear, with dozens of unknowns and generations of families spread throughout the country. As practitioners, most of us call our title insurance companies with bated breath hoping for answers other than the ones we suspect are inevitable in these situations. Read the Full Article...
GUEST COLUMN: Time to tell truth about schools
May 25, 2009
Cathy Henson - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Richard Anderson, the chief executive of Delta Air Lines, recently was quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution explaining why many of the Northwest Airlines employees relocating to Georgia from Minnesota will look for private schools for their children. Read the Full Article...
Georgia Appleseed Tackles Heir Property
May 14, 2009 - National Appleseed
As part of its ongoing Heir Property Project, Georgia Appleseed recently hosted a daylong workshop in Liberty Country, GA, a rural county along the coast, to educate landowners on how to secure - and protect - clear title to inherited property. Read the Full Article...
Georgia Appleseed Announces Good Apple Award Honorees
March 2009 - Georgia Appleseed
Georgia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice proudly announces its inaugural Good Apple Award recipients are Teri P. McClure, UPS Senior Vice President and General Counsel, and Frank S. Alexander, Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. The Awards will be presented at a dinner on Thursday, April 16, 2009 at the Park Tavern Garden Tent at Piedmont Park beginning at 6:30 P.M.. Read the Full Article...
Georgia Appleseed encourages dialogue on immigration reform
January 2009 - La Voz
Because they are designed to reflect goals and aspirations, mission statements have a tendency to sound idealistic, even overblown. But when you listen to Executive Director Sharon Hill, you realize that Georgia Appleseed is one social justice agency that has devised a concrete strategy to make those goals a reality. Read the Full Article...
