Friday, October 23 – Summit 2015
OPENING SESSION
INTRODUCTION
Bridgett Ortega | President, National Juvenile Defender Center Board of Directors
WELCOME
Kim Dvorchak | Executive Director, National Juvenile Defender Center
SPECIAL GUESTS
Pamela Vickrey | Executive Director, Utah Juvenile Defender Attorneys
The Honorable Aaron Osmond | Utah State Senate
KEYNOTE
Patrick McCarthy | President & CEO, Annie E. Casey Foundation
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Litigating Probable Cause in Delinquency Court
Randy Hertz
Defending the iGeneration: Social Media Investigations
Angela Chang, Kasie Lee
Litigating Taped Juvenile Confessions: Lawyering with a Scalpel
Ann Roan
Strategic Leadership: Building the Next Generation of Juvenile Defense Leaders
Kim Dvorchak, Jody Owens, Liane Rozzell
Making the Most of Data that Already Exists
Melissa Sickmund, Andrew Wachter
Electronic GPS Monitoring & House Arrest: The Hidden Costs of “Alternatives to Detention”
Ji Seon Song, Kate Weisburd
Respecting and Supporting Transgender Youth
Christina Gilbert, Shannan Wilber
Lay Advocates and Defense Mentors: Expanding the Defense Team for a Creative Approach to Holistic Representation
Penelope Spain, Ariel Test
Competence Remediation Working Group
Tim Curry, Antoinette Kavanaugh
Coordinating a State and National Juvenile Court Appellate Strategy
Charlyn Bohland, Richard Braucher, Steven Drizin
MORNING GENERAL SESSION
SPECIAL GUEST
Vanita Gupta | Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice
PLENARY
Beyond the Front Lines: Litigating Systemic Injustices in Juvenile Court
Kim Tandy, Moderator | Executive Director, Children’s Law Center, Inc., KY
Sheila Bedi | Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern School of Law
Atteyah Hollie | Staff Attorney, Southern Center for Human Rights
Jody Owens | Managing Attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center – Mississippi
Randee Waldman | Director, Barton Juvenile Defender Clinic, Emory University School of Law
- Summary of the DOJ Statement of Interest in S.R. and L.G. v. Kenton County, et al.
- Summary of the DOJ Investigation of St. Louis County Family Court, Missouri
- Summary of the DOJ Agreement to Reform the Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee
- Summary of the DOJ Statement of Interest in N.P. v. The State of Georgia, et al.
- Summary of the DOJ Agreement to Address Unconstitutional Youth Arrest and Probation Practices in Meridian, Mississippi
AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS
A Working Group on Litigation Strategies for Juvenile Reform
Sheila Bedi, Kim Tandy
Nickeled and Dimed: Why Defenders Should Be Concerned About Juvenile Court Fees
Stephanie Campos-Bui, Kate Weisburd
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Juvenile Court Costs in Alameda County, CA: Information for Families & Caregivers
Decriminalizing Sexual Encounters Between Consenting Minors
Whitney Untiedt, Randee Waldman
Update on Identification Suppression Law
Randy Hertz
Special Litigation and Appellate Strategies for Youth in Adult Court
Richard Braucher, Marsha Levick
Incorporating Developmental Research into Client Advocacy
Antoinette Kavanaugh, Mary Ann Scali
Defenders as Civil Rights Attorneys: Engaging Communities Organizing for Police Reform
Tshaka Barrows, Ji Seon Song, Jim St. Germain
Not So Fast: Aggressively Challenging Transfer
Gar Blume, Elise Logemann
Ethical Dilemmas in Juvenile Defense
Laura Cohen, Kris Henning, Ellen Marrus
Say What? Communication Strategies for Juvenile Defense Reform
Elizabeth McCabe Deal, Kim Dvorchak, Josh Perry, Colleen Shaddox
AFTERNOON GENERAL SESSION
PLENARY
Turn Up The Volume: The Collective Fight for Police Accountability
Tshaka Barrows, Moderator | Deputy Director, W. Haywood Burns Institute
Andrea Ritchie | Senior Policy Counsel, Streetwise & Safe
Ji Seon Song | Deputy Public Defender, Contra Costa County, CA
Jim St. Germain | Co-Founder, Preparing Leaders of Tomorrow, Inc.