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Advocates focus on foster needs
Juvenile justice reform could affect area agencies
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Juvenile stakeholders discussed better meeting the needs of Hall County’s foster children in a meeting held Friday at the CASA Little House on Washington Street in Gainesville. Judge Cliff Jolliff, who serves on the Juvenile Court of the Northeastern Judicial Circuit covering Hall and Dawson counties, noted that looming over stakeholders’ heads is a juvenile justice reform bill in the state House of Representatives that addresses every aspect of the juvenile code. “Each of these departments represented here would be affected,” he said.
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Gainesville’s Ukrainian refugees fearful of future under Trump administration
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Ukrainian war refugees gather at Open Heaven Church Wednesday, March 13, 2025, to discuss their current plight in the U.S. and the possibility of their Temporary Protected Status being removed. - photo by Scott Rogers
When Yehor Kuznietsov speaks about the war, he stares pensively into the distance as if recounting a terrible dream.
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