A recent statehouse hearing has brought attention to Maryland's policy of not monitoring phone calls at youth detention facilities, a practice ...

The Department of Juvenile Services is supportive of the proposed reforms, and its legislative director testified in support of Smith’s bill, arguing that their agency already serves the substantial ...

Discussions around legislation to stop automatically charging minors as adults for certain crimes morphed into a debate over ...

The Maryland Supreme Court on Monday upheld the 2023 Child Victims Act, which ended the statute of limitations for victims of ...

Now that the Child Victims Act has been upheld, lawyers say they will be filing status reports and motions to lift the stays ...

Sen. William C. Smith Jr. sponsors proposal would raise the age at which a juvenile would be tried as an adult from 14 to 16.

A recent hearing from the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee reignited a long-standing debate among state politicians: whether the state’s practice of automatically filtering teenage ...

Maryland education leaders have taken action to make public schools safer by mandating school systems share information about ...