DOCUMENT RESUME ED 103 736 CG 009 603 TITLE Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and Runaway Youth; Hearings on H. R. 6265 and H, R. 9298 Before the Subcommittee on Equal Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-Third Congress, Second Session. INSTITUTION Congress of the U.S., Washington, D.C. House Committee on Education and Labor. PUB DATE 74 NOTE 545p. EDRS PRICE MF-$ 0.92 HC-$27.29 PLUS POSTAGE DESCRIPTORS Counseling; Court Litigation; Crime; *Delinquency Prevention; *Federal Legislation; *Government Publications; *Rehabilitation Programs; *Youth Problems ABSTRACT The discussions center on two bills before Congress which would:(1) provide a comprehensive coordinated approach to the problems of juvenile delinquency;(2) strengthen interstate reporting and interstate services for parents of runawaychildren;(3) conduct research on the size of the runaway youth population; and (4) establish, maintain, and operate temporary housing and counseling services for transient youth. The six days of hearings recorded in this report took place in Los Angeles, California and Washington, D.C. (Author/PC) N-JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY coPREVENTION AND RUNAWAY YOUTH HEARINGS BEFOltli THI1 SUBCOMMITTEE ON EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES OF TI1P, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H.R. 6265 and H.R. 9298 BILLS TO PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE. COORDINATED AP- PROACH TO THE PROBLEMS OF WVEN ILE DELINQUENCY AND TO STRENGTHEN* INTERSTATE REPORTING AND IN- TERSTATE SERVICES FOR PARENTS OF RUNAWAY CHILDREN; TO CONDUCT RESEARCH ON THE SIZE 01? THE RUNAWAY YOUTH POPULATION; FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, MAINTE- NANCE, AND OPERATION 01? TEMPORARY HOUSING AND COUNSELING SERVICES FOR TRANSIENT YOUTH, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES HEARINGS HELD IN LOS ANGELES, CALIF., MARCH 201 WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 24; MAY 1,2,8, AND 21, 1074 Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Lahcr CARL 11 PEIMINS, ChairMatt U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION IS WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION THIS DDCUMEN, HAS BEENREPRO DUCE() EXACTLY AS RECEIVEDPROM THE PERSON OR OROANItATION AtINO ORIGIN ITPOINTSOF viEW OPiNIONS U.S. GOVRIINMENT PRINTING OPPIC STATED DO NOTNECESSARILORYRE PRE SENT FFICIAL 06-821 NATIONALINStituTt OP WASHINGTON t1974 EDUCAOTIONPOSITIONon POLICY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR CARL D. PERKINS, Kentucky, Chairman FRANK THOMPSON, JR., New Jersey ALBERT H. QUIE, Minnesota JOHN H. DENT, Pennsylvania JOHN M. ASHBROOK, Ohio DOMINICK V. DANIELS, New Jersey ALPHONZO BELL, California. JOHN BRADEMAS, Indiana JOHN N. ERLENBORN, Illinois JAMES G. O'HARA, Michigan JOHN DELLENBACK, Oregon AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS, California MARVIN L. ESCH, Michigan WILLIAM D. FORD, Michigan EDWIN D. ESHLEMAN, Pennsylvania PATSY T. MINK, Hawaii WILLIAM A. STEIGER, Wisconsin LLOYD MEEDS, Washington EARL F. LANDOREBE, Indiana PHILIP BURTON, California ORVAL HANSEN, Idaho JOSEPH M. GAYDOS, Pennsylvania EDWIN B. FORSYTHE, New Jersey WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY, Missouri JACK F. KEMP, New York SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, Nrw York PETER A. PEYSER, New York MARIO BIAGGI, New York DAVID TOWELL, Nevada ELLA T. GRASSO, Connecticut RONALD A. SARASIN, Connecticut ROMANO L. MAZZOLI, Kentucky ROBERT J. HUBER, Michigan HERMAN BADILLO, New York In) ANDREWS, North Carolina WILLIAM LEHMAN, Florida MIME BENITEZ, Puerto Rico SUROoMMITTEE ON EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS, California, Chairman SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, New York WILLIAM A, STEIGER, Wisconsin PATSY T. MINK, Hawaii ALPHONZO BELL, California WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY, Missouri EDWIN D, ESHLEMAN, Pennsylvania JAIME BENITEZ, Puerto Rico CONTENTS Hearings held in PAP Los Angeles, Calif., March29, 1974 Washington, D.C.: 1 April 24, 1974 May 1, 1974 153 May 2, 1974 225 May 8, 1974 259 May 21, 1974 329 Text of hills; 455 H.R. 6265 H.R. 9298 3 Statement of 1 Aragon, Manuel, deputymayor of the City of Los Angeles, Calif.; companied by William Elkins, executive ac- Los Angeles, Calif assistant to the Mayor of Bayh, Hon. Birch, A United States Senator from 15 the State of Indiana.. 155 Bricker, William, executive director, Boys'Clubs of Anierioa 248 Busch Joseph, District Attorney, Countyof Los Angeles;accom- panied by Earl Osadchey, head deputyDistrict Attorney, Juvenile Division 84 Daly, Captain Francis J. commanding officer,Youth Aid Division, City of New York; et al 291 David, Ray Ben, executivedirector, Focus Runaway House, Las Vegas, Nev., accompanied by Steve Nicholas,associate director, Focus Runaway House 261 Davis, Ed, chief, Los AngelesPolice Department, Los Angeles, Calif 21 De John, Sam, teacher, San FernandoHigh School 51 Delgado, Bertha, parent, Huntington ParkHigh School 53 Durant, Mike, Los Angeles County youthprograms 71 Edelman, Edmund, city councilman, FifthDistrict, Angeles City of Los 126 Etheridge, Samuel, director, TeacherRights, National Education Association, Washington, D.0 519 Evans, Roy, executive director, BridgeBtu*, Inc., Los Angeles; accompanied by Ed Thompson, Los AngelesCounty Probation Department 109 Flanigan, Gerda, formerly executivedirectorofLookingGlass Runaway House, Chicago, Ill., and BruceC. MeQuaker, asso- ciate executive director, Travelers Aid Societyof Chicago 290 Gold, Martin, program director, InstituteforSocialResearch, University of Michigan; accompanied byDavid Reimer, Institute for Social Research 281 Hall, Leon, director, School DesegregationProject, Southern Regional Council, Atlanta, Ca 468 Harris, Iliawath, 1\I.D., director, Central CityCommunity Mental Health Facility; accompanied,y Roy T. Dawson, director, Com- munity Services, Central City Community MentalHealth Facility; Prank T. Price, Ph. D. Behavior Research andDevelopment Cen- ter, U.C.L.A.; Olivia Mitchell, district attorney's. youthadvisory board; and Rory Kaufman,campus advisory, Urban Affairs, Los Angeles City Schools, advisor, S.S.S 58 Harrison, Acquanetta, student body president,Locke High School. 54 (tit) IV Statement of=Continued Page Holmes, Peter, director, Office for Civil Rights, Departmentof Health, Education, and Welfare_ 474 Horn, Fred, Central City Community Mental Health; accompanied by Oliver Crawford, Anti-Self-Destruction; LorenzoTrice, Anti- Self-Destruction 135 Johnston, Dr. William J., superintendent, Los Angeles UnifiedSchool District; accompanied by Richard W. Green, chief security agent, Los Angeles Unified School District 39 Jones, Diana, staff member, NAACP Legal Defense Fund andRobert F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow, Chapel Hill, N.0 516 Kirkpatrick, Kenneth E., chief probation officer, Los AngelesCounty, Probation Department; accompanied by Robert Totschek,research consultant 98 Kurisaki, Lyle, coordinator, Prison Preventors; accompanied by Dan Jirninez, cosponsor; Prison Preventors 127 Mizell, NI. Hayes. director, South Carolina CommunityRelations Program of the American Friends Service Committee, and member, Columbia, S.C. School Board 511 Morales, Fernando, deputy director, Human Relations Department, City of Los Angeles 75 Pepper, Hon. Claude D., a Representative in Congress from theState, of Florida 337 Plumley, H. Ladd, vice chairman of National Affairs,National Council on Crime and Delinquency, Washington, D.C. , accom- panied by Anne Parker and Justis Fryman ofthe National Council on Crime and Delinquency 449 Rawlins, William, former teacher, Pasteur JuniorHigh School 52 Silcott, T. George, executive director, The WiltwyckSchool for Boys, Yorktown Heights, N.Y 231 Thomas, Hon. Stanley B. Jr., Assistant Secretary forHuman Develop- ment, Department of Health, Education,and Welfare; accompanied by Mrs. Joan Hutchison Miller; JamesA. Hart, Commissioner, Office of Youth Development; and RobertFoster, Chief, Youth Service Systems Division 164 Thompson, Sidney, principal, Crenshaw HighSchool .53 Wertz, Richard .,chairman, National Conference of StateCriminal Justice Planning Administratorsand executive director, Governor's Commission on Law Enforcement andAdministration of Justice, State of Maryland: and C. L.Townsend,Jr.,or Lee M. Thomas, legislation committee chairman,National'Conference of State Criminal Justice Planning Administrators,and executive director, Office of Criminal Justice Programs,State of South Carolina 438 Law Enforcement Assistance Work, Charles R., Deputy Administrator, 355 Administration Zamorski, Lucien, assistant professor,Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., representing the National Associationof Social Workers_ 191 Prepared statements , letters, supplementalmaterial, etc.: anuel, deputy mayor, city of LosAngeles, prepared Aragon, Hon.M 14 statement of Advocates for Youth, San I3acigalupi, Tadini, Jr., president, Social 216 Francisco,Calif', letter to Chairman Hawkins,dated May 9 1974 Dayh, Hon. Birch, a United States Senatorfrom the State of Indiana, prepared statement of 155 Bricker,William, Interagency Collaboration onJuvenile Justice, statement on behalf of 239 Briscoe, Hon. Dolph, Governor,State of Texas, testimony . 326 Bush, Dr. James A. assistant professor,Department of Psychiatry, Charles It. DrewPostgraduate Medical School statement of. 143 Daly, Captain Francis J.,commanding officer Youth AidDivision, Police Department, New York City,prepared statement of 291 David, Raymond ben, executivedirector, Focus Runaway House, Las Vegas, Nev.: Letter to Chairman Hawkins, datedMay 9, 1974 322 Statement of 261 V Prepared statements, etc.Continued Pap Dawson, Roy r., director, Community Services, Central City Com- munity Mental Health Facility, Los AngelesCalif., letter from, dated April 4, 1974, enclosing