The deputy director overseeing Dallas County’s juvenile detention center resigned Friday, marking the second leadership departure amid allegations of poor...
An exterior view of the Dallas County Juvenile Department inside the Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center Dallas, April 18, 2023.The deputy director overseeing Dallas County’s juvenile detention center resigned Friday, marking the second leadership departure amid allegations of poor conditions and pending state investigations.
Griffiths told the board that he named a replacement for Jones to serve in an interim capacity: Barbara Roberts, who served as a deputy director over institutions for the department from 2007 to 2010.Roberts served under Griffiths in his final few years as juvenile department director. Griffiths has overseen juvenile services in counties across Texas and at the state level since 1983, the longest stint being from 1995 to 2010 as Dallas County’s director over the juvenile department.
Sommerman and Lewis Jenkins said they support a “top-to-bottom” review of the system by a third party. The duo contend such a review should be broad and all-encompassing, ensuring, they told The News, that issues with the department do not resurface in later years. Griffiths said he would draft a “scope of work” — a draft proposal of what a third-party agency would evaluate — for such a review. He plans to present that draft during the board’s next regular meeting in October.A handful of people spoke during the meeting’s public comment period, including Rev. Michael W. Waters. Three days before the July 3 news conference hosted by Beatty and Jones, Waters called on the county to address issues in the detention center.
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