HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1978.05.04 - 128518449 Miscellaneous Resolution May 4, 1978
BY: HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE - John H. Peterson, Chairperson
IN RE: LEGISLATION REVISION MICHIGAN'S JUVENILE CODE
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, House Bill 6184 contains legislation which redefines status
offense, establishes runaway counseling and shelter facilities and provides
new procedures for bringing juveniles to trial as adults and committee hearings
are being held in various locations to receive input from concerned groups
and governmental agencies; and
WHEREAS, the Health and Human Resources Committee has reviewed testimony
from interested parties including State Representative Mark Clodfelter,
Probate Judge Eugene Arthur Moore, and Sandra L. McKay, Manager of the
Reimbursement Division; and
WHEREAS, your Committee believes the amendments proposed below will be
beneficial to and strengthen the Juvenile Code.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
recommend to the State Legislators that House Bill 6184 be amended in the
following manner:
1. Include authority of the local Board of Commissioners to establish
and operate juvenile facilities (without the amendment there would be
no statutory authority for the continuation and operation of Children's
Village).
2. Authority for operation of local deliquency prevention programs
(without this statutory authority there would be a question of
continued operation of Youth Assistance).
3. Strengthen language in the neglect portion of the Bill that would
give the court power to intervene and protect children from abuse
and neglect.
4. Require the State of Michigan to establish regional detention facilities
within the next three years so that at the end of three years, when
Judges from counties without detention facilities can no longer place
juveniles in jails, there will be in operation regional detention
facilities for these children in lieu of jails.
5. Raise juvenile court jurisdiction over runaways from sixteen, as proposed
in the Bill, to seventeen.
6. Include juvenile court jurisdiction over home incorrigibles (the
jurisdiction is not included in the proposed Bill).
7. Allow removal from home of school truancy cases in exceptional
circumstances (but still not allow secure detention of school
truants).
8. Remove the phrase "upon good cause" from Section 17, Page 11,
Line 3 in the new code or revise this section to contain language
similar to the present code.
9. Continue the provision for wage assignment as in the present code
in lieu of the garnishment provision proposed by the new code.
The Health and Human Resources Committee by John H. Peterson, Chairperson,
moves the adoption of the foregoing resolut1M
AN4IDAI&M RESpORCES COMMITTEE
eterson, Chairperson
#8449 May 4, 1978
Moved by Peterson supported by Daly the Report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Peterson supported by Daly the resolution be adopted.
Discussion followed.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF M_TCHTGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and
having a seal, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution #8449 adopted by the Oakland County Board of
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with the original record thereof now remaining in my
office, and that it is a true and correct transcript
therefrom, and of the whole thereof,,
In Testimony Whereof, i have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of saidCounty at Pontiac, Michigan
this th day
Lynn D, Allen Clerk
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