The following reports provide a statistical picture of the work
of the Court during calendar year 2011:
DELINQUENT FILINGS: Those
charges that relate to law violations regardless of the age of the
person committing the act such as aggravated assault, burglary, or
theft.
UNRULY FILINGS: Those
charges that are law violation solely because of the child's age.
Often referred to as "status offenses," these include truancy,
runaway, and curfew violations among others.
DEPRIVED FILINGS: Those
charges that relate to the abuse, neglect, mistreatment, or
abandonment of a child.
TRAFFIC FILINGS : Those
charges relating to violations of the traffic codes.
SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS:
Those charges which fall outside of the above categories including
termination of parental rights, extension or modification of
custody, the sealing of records, waiver of parental notification of
abortion, release from custody, Superior Court investigations,
etc.
Table 1 shows an overall 45 percent decrease in filings for
2011, over 2007. It is apparent that the School Referral Reduction
Program, a collaborative effort involving Clayton County Public
Schools, the Clayton County Sheriff's Office, the Clayton County
Police Department, and other municipal law enforcement agencies, is
having the intended impact as there has been a steady decline in
the number of delinquency cases filed from school settings over the
past five years. While the number of complaints filed has
decreased, our workload has shifted to providing more effective and
closer supervision to high-risk offenders in the community. This
increased level of supervision would not have been possible without
the School Referral Reduction Program and similar reform efforts
and shifts in Juvenile Court policy.
Deprived, unruly, traffic and special proceedings have remained
more or less steady over the last several years. Traffic cases are
the least labor intensive charges that come before the Juvenile
Court while filings on delinquency and deprivation require the
largest investments of staff time and resources.
2011 Statistical Reports Tables
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Table One - Total Count
Filings (2007-2011) bar chart
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Table Two - Total Count
Filings by Type (2007-2011) line chart
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Table Three - Breakdown of
Filings by Race and Sex (2011)
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Table Four - Delinquent
Filings by Race and Sex (2011)
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Table Five - Unruly Filings
by Race and Sex (2011)
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Table Six - Deprived Filings by
Race and Sex (2011)
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Table Seven - Traffic
Filings by Race and Sex (2011)
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Table Eight - Special
Proceedings Filings by Race and Sex (2011)
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Table Nine - Complaint
Filings by Age Groups (2011)
- Table Ten - Monies Collected and Distributed by Judicial
Action (2011)