MORE THAN 130 LAWYERS from 10 Atlanta firms attended a training session Monday that is part of a major volunteer effort to overhaul the Georgia Juvenile Code, enacted in 1971 as O.C.G.A. �§ 15-11.
Sharon N. Hill, the executive director of Georgia Appleseed, which sponsored the training at King & Spalding, said that over the years many amendments have turned the state’s juvenile code, which addresses delinquency, deprivation and status offenses, into “a patchwork quilt that now has internal inconsistencies, is inconsistent with federal law, is silent in some areas where explicit guidance would be helpful and explicit where silence would be preferable.”
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