USSC Review 4 Juvenile Lifers
Finally, our nation’s large population of under age juveniles (now grown men and most well into middle age) who were once sentenced to life in prison – some younger than 13 years old –...
Category: Juvenile Law
Kids Suffer Too! Washington: Update/Reauthorize JJDPA, Please!
The shameful legislative ice age we are all living in affects children and teens as much as — or, perhaps, even more so than — adults. Since 1974, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention...
Read the HooverLaw Summer 2013 newsletter!
Fresh off the press, HooverLaw’s Summer Newsletter is now available. Learn about Zero Tolerance Policies from one of Maryland’s leading Education and Juvenile Law Attorneys, Mr. Patrick Hoover, Esq. Featuring articles: “Turning our Schools...
Maryland passes new cyberbullying law!
Last week, Maryland’s legislature passed a bill prohibiting cyberbullying against minors. Known as “Grace’s Law,” in memory of the 15-year-old victim of cyberbullying who committed suicide in Maryland last year after repeated cyberbullying attacks,...
'Reasonable School Discipline Act' introduced in Maryland
This month, 7-year-old Josh Welch, a second-grader at Park Elementary School in Baltimore was suspended from school for two days after biting his Pop-Tart pastry into the shape of a gun. This event is only...
Juvenile judge: Non-dangerous kids arrested because they 'make adults mad'
The school-to-jail pipeline for kids is real and this article is yet further proof of that fact. While security is paramount in all schools especially those in grades K-12, regularly stacking our schools with police officers and security guards is not always the best idea. In fact, it’s often a bad idea.
Big Brother is watching: How tech turns public school students into prison inmates
A growing number of school districts have begun to incorporate the same kind of high-tech radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems used successfully by prison administrations to better control and manage state and federal prison populations.
It only takes a second
Prom season is over. Many of our high school seniors are away with good friends enjoying beach week. This is the perfect time to remember “it only takes a second.”
MD Board of Education: “Context matters” in decisions to suspend, arrest
The Maryland Board of Education sent public schools throughout the state a very important message, when it issued an opinion reversing Talbot County Public Schools’ suspension of two high school lacrosse players — context matters.
Flash mobs: First dancing, now crime
HooverLaw’s Bryan Utter writes about the recent trend of flash mob crime.