Dallas County Juvenile Department broke state laws in how long children were isolated after misbehaving.
At the meeting, Dallas County Commissioner Andrew Sommerman, who also sits on the juvenile board, began to ask questions about the isolation children faced at the center, but Serrano and Beatty said he’d have to wait for the results of a larger investigation the state is conducting before he could get answers.“This one’s a bit more broad than what they usually have done, because they’re looking at more general abuse/neglect concerns rather than just one in particular,” Beatty said..
State inspectors asked for a small, random batch of cases to review. Due to poor documentation, inspectors said they had to rely on staff and childrens’ interviews about the “disciplinary seclusion.” In July, state investigators also found that five children told inspectors that they were not given an opportunity to shower daily, as code requires. Beatty told board members that there is now a rotating schedule to ensure all children get a shower once a day.
He told the board that staff members have put a plan in place to “beef up” how these cases are documented and where documents are stored.Inspectors also found that children were not given 10 hours of “structured and unstructured activities” throughout the day as state standards require.
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