Mike Griffiths retired as the Dallas County juvenile director in 2010 after 15 years at the helm. When he took over the agency, it was in trouble. And that's where it is again.
Dallas County has brought back the man who led the Dallas County Juvenile Department for 15 years to serve as interim director.Mike Griffiths has returned to Dallas temporarily after the previous director, Darryl Beatty, was asked to resign last month by the chair of the Dallas County Juvenile Board Judge Cheryl Shannon."We need to maintain the agency and restore our credit, the confidence I had when I left in 2010," Griffiths told FOX 4.
Griffiths lives in Illinois but has come back to where his juvenile justice career started."We're going to take deliberate intentional steps to address the issues that have been highlighted," he said. "There's some things that have been noted by the Office of Inspector General and the standards and compliance division of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department. We have to address those and address those immediately.
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