Resolution Passed in Support of Youth Courts

In October of 2001, the Board of Directors of the Constitutional Rights Foundation (CRF) and the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago (CRFC) passed the following resolution in support of youth courts:  

RESOLVED, That the Constitutional Rights Foundation and the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago encourage schools, youth programs, attorneys, judges, and police departments to work together to form and expand diversionary programs, known as youth courts, where juveniles, under the supervision of representatives from the education and legal communities, determine sentencing for first time juvenile offenders who are charged with misdemeanors or minor infractions of school rules and consent to participate in the program, recognizing that an important sentencing option - community service - serves both the offender and the community.