{"id":224224,"date":"2016-03-30T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=224224"},"modified":"2016-03-30T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T20:00:04","slug":"leepan-wants-combine-juvenile-probation-adult-probation-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/leepan-wants-combine-juvenile-probation-adult-probation-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Leepan wants to combine juvenile probation with adult probation services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Joseph Leepan Guerrero (R-Saipan) has authored a bill to transfer the juvenile probation unit under the CNMI Division of Youth Services to the local courts.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 19-145 finds that the Office of Adult Probation Supervision, under the Commonwealth Superior Court, \u201cserves the same purpose and performs the same functions\u201d as the DYS\u2019 juvenile probation unit.<\/p>\n<p>The bill states that the \u201cconsolidation\u201d of the two separate services will provide an opportunity for partnership, sharing of resources in management, training, administrative support, and grant functions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllowing for juvenile delinquents to be properly supervised by the Commonwealth Superior Court will allow for these troubled youth to become active and productive members of society for a better and brighter future,\u201d the bill states.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also states that transferring these functions from DYS will allow the Department of Community of Cultural Affairs, which DYS is under, to focus on other divisions and program. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Joseph Leepan Guerrero (R-Saipan) has authored a bill to transfer the juvenile probation unit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6019,221,194,2036],"class_list":["post-224224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-commonwealth-superior-court","tag-dys","tag-house-bill","tag-youth-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}