The court system submitted a bill to the Legislature yesterday that would transfer from the executive branch to the judiciary the regulation of probation services in family courts throughout the state.
Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman discussed the proposal at a meeting of the nonpartisan Citizens Crime Commission during which he suggested that the court system’s success in developing drug courts and other alternatives to incarceration for adult offenders could be applied to what he called “a pressing need for reform in New York’s juvenile justice system.”
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