SAN ANTONIO – On Monday, State District Court Judge Jefferson Moore, a member of the Bexar County Juvenile Board, toured the county’s four juvenile facilities. Since then, the agency, tasked with handling juvenile offenders’ cases, has been renamed the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, and the Texas legislature ordered that local governments make annual inspections of juvenile facilities. “All of us have an interest to make sure that everything here is done as good as possible,” Moore said. “We’re really totally separate from the juvenile system, and to put us as the oversight board for them, I think, makes a good difference,” Moore said. Moore noted that the adult criminal courts also benefit from an effectively operating juvenile justice system.

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