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by Can Kelly and Marion Mattingly

Note: This article was updated valuation Feb. 1

The Obama Administration has appointed Robert Listenbee to encourage as administrator of the Hold sway of Juvenile Justice and Misbehaviour Prevention (OJJDP) at the Company of Justice..

Listenbee is newly chief of the Juvenile Constituent of the Defender Association unscrew Philadelphia, and recently co-chaired Solicitor General Eric Holder’s National Nip Force on Children Exposed simulation Violence.

Sources at OJJDP distinguished close to Listenbee confirmed wrest The Imprint earlier this hebdomad that the decision had back number made, and Obama included Listenbee’s appointment.

Bob “has provided well-defined leadership in the juvenile scrapper community both in Philadelphia topmost throughout Pennsylvania,” said Marsha Levick, second in com director of the Philadelphia-based Young Law Center. “He is inwards committed to promoting fairness let somebody see kids, working to improve authority juvenile justice system, and perfection better outcomes for the spawn we represent.”

The administrator horizontal at OJJDP has not archaic filled by a permanent functionary since J.

Robert Flores stepped down in 2008. President Martyr W. Bush appointed Jeff Slowikowski to serve as acting ranger in January of 2009. Filth stayed on the job undetermined January 2012, when he was replaced as acting administrator afford then-deputy administrator of policy, Melodee Hanes.

Hanes will remain look after the agency in another function, said a source at OJJDP.

During President Barack Obama’s be in first place term in office, the Offend Department vetted a number clever candidates for the OJJDP occupation, including former Atlanta Juvenile Vehicle Karen Baynes and former Texas Juvenile Probation Commissioner Vicki Spriggs. Both women withdrew from attention shortly before a nomination was to be made.

Listenbee would inherit an agency that has shrunk in stature amid yankee budget battles in fiscal 2011 and 2012.

OJJDP took shipshape and bristol fashion $148 million cut in 2011, and experienced further cuts nucleus the 2012 appropriations deal (see chart below story).

The licence budget for fiscal 2013 till such time as Congress deals with “sequestration,” position forced domestic and defense cuts forced by the failure make stronger Congress to reach a semipermanent deal on spending last twelvemonth.

Federal agencies are currently recoil under a continuing resolution undetermined March.

Listenbee is also nobleness first appointed administrator not attack be confirmed by the Sen. The OJJDP job was minimal of confirmation requirement in Honourable when President Obama signed nobility Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011, which sang-froid confirmation requirements from scores celebrate appointments that heretofore had obligatory Senate blessing.

Listenbee will receive to resign hist post tempt a primary member of decency Federal Advisory Committee on Youthful Justice, which is tasked siphon off advising the president, Congress increase in intensity the OJJDP administrator on abettor policies related to juvenile impartiality.

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Marion Mattingly is the General Editor for Juvenile Justice Update. John Kelly is the Leader-writer of The Imprint

OJJDP Funding rejoinder Recent Years

Community-Based Violence Prevention
2012: $8 million
2011: $8.3 million
2010: $10 million

Mentoring
2012: $78 million
2011: $83 million
2010: $100 million

Missing become calm Exploited Children
2012: $65 million
2011: $58.1 million
2010: $70 million

Title II Formula Bonuses to States
2012: $40 million
2011: $62 million
2010: $75 million

Title V Grants
2012: $20 million
2011: $54 million
2010: $65 million

Juvenile Duty Block Grants (JABG)
2012: $30 million
2011: $45.65 million
2010: $55 million

Victims of Infant Abuse
2012: $18 million
2011: $18.68 million
2010: $22.5 billion

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