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1 week ago |
wesh.com | Michelle Imperato
Every Tuesday night, a courtroom in Seminole County fills with teens participating in Teen Court, a diversion program designed to give young offenders a second chance and keep them out of the traditional juvenile justice system. The teens act as bailiffs, defendants, jurors, and attorneys, such as Lake Mary High School senior Mercedes Patrick, who has been volunteering since her freshman year. "I began as a volunteer on the jury, learning about cases and hearing them.
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1 week ago |
wesh.com | Michelle Imperato
The numbers don't lie. More and more kids are having run-ins with law enforcement and ending up in the juvenile justice system. Juvenile arrests in Florida have surged by 17% annually since the pandemic, and the state is facing challenges in providing adequate facilities for these young offenders, according to retired Judge Ken Lester, who served 24 years in Seminole County, including six years as head of the juvenile division.
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1 month ago |
wesh.com | Michelle Imperato
A newly released photo taken inside Pulse nightclub by authorities after the 2016 massacre is being seen for the first time by survivors and victims' family members, nine years after the tragic event. Zachary Blair, a survivor's advocate with Victim's First, gave WESH 2 the picture after obtaining it from the city of Orlando through a public records request.
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2 months ago |
wesh.com | Michelle Imperato
Florida's top lawmakers are pushing a new bill to move NASA headquarters to Brevard County.Ashley Moody and Rick Scott have introduced the Cape Canaveral Act.
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2 months ago |
wesh.com | Michelle Imperato
Form 2 Fashion, an educational program founded by Jaison Radcliff and Andrew Browne, provides fashion design education to children in Central Florida. "Let's take all the things that we've learned in fashion design, in life and turn it into something incredible that's going to impact generations to come. And that's really what Form 2 Fashion is," Radcliff said. Radcliff and Browne, after decades in the fashion industry, started the program in 2018 to give kids what they never had growing up.
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