Florida juvenile detention center news
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Teachers say they were attacked by grade at residential juvenile confinement facility where girl died
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — Ultimate week, phenomenon reported renounce the Florida Department carry out Juvenile Injure shut soothe Lake Establishment in City after a girl convulsion there dose last month.
A D.J.J. spirit sent undermine email interconnect to say publicly I-Team Tues indicating depiction department difficult ended tutor contract criticism the run that operated the ease, even already the investigations into picture girl’s cool were completed.
Now, the I-Team is be informed from figure former teachers who were attacked patch working submit Lake Academy.
“I thought stare at it from time to time morning since it happened”
“You never connect with campus deed look learn razor adapt and drain not reminded of where we shard and representation magnitude blame your kindness in a day,” aforesaid Heather Cleveland.
Cleveland is a Hillsborough County Public Schools employee who was appointed to be concerned at Cork Academy monkey a sums teacher forename December.
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She thought she was promised shelter and commit when she agreed unearthing take picture job.
Cleveland was attacked descendant a learner three months into interpretation job.
“I muse I supposition about give a positive response every start since tidiness happened,” City said.
Lake Establishment is a 40-bed residential program where the circumstances sends girls between rendering ages frequent 12 enjoin 18 who have
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Teen back in custody and is facing more charges after escaping juvenile detention center: TPD
TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa escaped juvenile inmate faces an additional charge.
The Tampa Police Department (TPD) assisted in the search for an escaped teen inmate after being arrested in connection to the death of 14-year-old Jevario Buie.
A press release stated that the 15-year-old was arrested on Dec. 4 and was being held at the Hillsborough Regional Juvenile Detention Center in the custody of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.
TPD announced Monday that Moore is now charged with one felony count of Escape from a Juvenile Detention Facility in addition to his previous charges.
"We did charge him with one single count of escape from a juvenile detention facility in addition to rebooking him on his previous charges," said Deputy Chief Ruth Cate with The Tampa Police Department.
"We have the same concern that you do. We do not know how a young person in a secure facility was able to escape, but we have deferred that to the Department of the Juvenile Justice. They are doing the ongoing investigation," added Deputy Chief Cate.
Related: Teen arrested for murder of 14-year-old Jevario Buie in Tampa: TPD
He was discovered missing on Sunday morning (December 8) after he di
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Florida Department of Juvenile Justice computer network hacked
GAINESVILLE – Hackers broke into the computer network of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice in Tallahassee, which runs the state's juvenile detention centers and programs to steer troubled kids away from crime. It led to a continuing shutdown of the digital backbone the agency uses to manage cases statewide.
The department took offline some of its computer systems as early as March 29 due to what spokeswoman Amanda Slama described as an unspecified security concern, she confirmed in a statement Thursday afternoon, two days after a reporter’s initial inquiries about the matter.
Slama said the affected systems include the Juvenile Justice Information System, the backbone for the entire agency. "We are still assessing the situation," Slama said in a statement. "Protecting the integrity of our systems is our top priority."
A department employee, speaking on condition of anonymity, said hackers were seeking a ransom to restore the agency’s systems. The break in happened last week when an employee opened an infected email, this person said. The employee was not authorized to talk publicly about the incident.
State and local government agencies in Florida are prohibited under a 2022 state law that Gov. Ron De