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Authorizing a local superintendent or the superintendent's designee to access the registry of juvenile sex offenders; and adding certain offenses to the list of offenses for which a person adjudicated delinquent is required to be included in the registry of juvenile sex offenders.

Altering and establishing certain provisions relating to the detention, confinement, and transportation of children arrested, convicted, or awaiting trial on certain charges.

Altering and establishing certain provisions relating to the detention, confinement, and transportation of children arrested, convicted, or awaiting trial for certain offenses.

Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court by repealing provisions specifying that the juvenile court does not have jurisdiction over a child alleged to have committed any crime punishable by life imprisonment.

Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court by repealing provisions specifying that the juvenile court does not have jurisdiction over a child alleged to have committed any crime punishable by life imprisonment.

Altering a certain provision of law authorizing a law enforcement officer to conduct an otherwise lawful custodial interrogation of a child if the child's parent, guardian, or custodian consents to the custodial interrogation of the child without the child's consultation with an attorney.

Prohibiting the Department of Juvenile Services from hiring or retaining an individual convicted of certain crimes.

Establishing the Independent Investigation of the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children; establishing the process for appointing the Principal Independent Investigator and the Deputy Independent Investigators; requiring the Independent Investigation to undertake certain tasks related to the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children and the deaths that occurred there; providing that the Independent Investigation will be funded according to the State budget; etc.

Establishing a certain rebuttable presumption that a statement made by a minor during a custodial interrogation is involuntary and is inadmissible in a juvenile or criminal proceeding against the minor if the law enforcement officer intentionally used information known by the officer to be false in order to elicit the statement.

Establishing a presumption that the sentencing of a minor convicted as an adult should be transferred to the juvenile court, under certain circumstances, and authorizing the court to do so; and requiring the juvenile court to make a juvenile determination under certain circumstances.

Requiring an intake officer to file a petition alleging that a child under the age of 13 years is a child in need of supervision if the child is alleged to have committed an act that results in the death of a victim; and requiring a law enforcement officer to forward a complaint alleging that a child under the age of 13 years committed an act that resulted in the death of a victim to the Department of Juvenile Services for appropriate action.

Establishing that certain provisions of law relating to the confidentiality of juvenile police records and court records do not prohibit access to and confidential use of certain records by the Baltimore City Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, the Baltimore City Mayor's Office of Children and Family Success, and the Baltimore City Mayor's Office of African American Male Engagement under specified circumstances; etc.

Establishing the Youth Delinquency Prevention Fund.

Limiting the circumstances under which an incarcerated minor may be involuntarily placed in restrictive housing; establishing that a minor may not be placed in restrictive housing solely for the purposes of discipline, punishment, administrative convenience, retaliation, or staff shortages; authorizing the Department of Juvenile Services to place a minor in restrictive housing at the minor's request; and specifying certain protocols for minors placed in restrictive housing.

Authorizing the Circuit Administrative Judge of the Fourth Circuit to establish a Truancy Reduction Pilot Program in the juvenile court in Washington County.

Establishing the Youth Delinquency Prevention Fund to provide grants to community-based programs that provide services for youth suicide prevention, drug and alcohol use prevention, and youth development, and to ameliorate conditions that contribute to delinquency, youth suicide, substance use disorder, and family disruption; and requiring the Office to submit a certain report to certain committees of the General Assembly by December 1, 2027, and each year thereafter.

Requiring the juvenile court to order certain probation for a child found to have committed certain delinquent acts more than once or adjudicated to be a child in need of supervision more than once because of habitual truancy; requiring probation of a child adjudged delinquent for certain acts or a child in need of supervision to include the adoption of a treatment service plan and providing the child and the child's family with certain services; etc.

Establishing the Commission on the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children to research the history, operations, and resident deaths at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children and provide a complete and public accounting of the children who died and were buried on the grounds; and requiring the Commission to submit a final report to the Governor and General Assembly by December 31, 2029.

Establishing that certain provisions of law relating to the confidentiality of juvenile police records and court records do not prohibit access to and confidential use of certain records by the Baltimore City Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, the Baltimore City Mayor's Office of Children and Family Success, and the Baltimore City Mayor's Office of African American Male Engagement under certain circumstances; etc.

Authorizing the Circuit Administrative Judge of the Fourth Circuit to establish a Truancy Reduction Pilot Program in the juvenile court in Washington County.