Jovanie St vil, a 2023 state Department of Juvenile Justice Youth Ambassador, on May 16, 2023, gives advice to youth who ...

Florida has the lowest state worker-to-resident ratio in the country, according to the former Department of Management ...

Statistics show key state agencies have been operating with one in four jobs unfilled, as workers lament constant turnover.

Escambia County has some of the highest arrest rates of children in Florida, but they still get a chance to go to school in ...

More than 140 programs, including YMCA of South Florida, were selected during a competitive ... as well as young adults involved in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems and/or living with ...

Gainesville officials discuss gun bill passed in the Florida Legislature that allows people to carry concealed weapons ...

Florida’s image as a safe sun and theme park destination may be threatened by recent political divisions and gun crime.

In 1994, when Florida legislators made an exception to the privacy of juvenile records if the minor was accused of committing ...

A student has been arrested for making a bomb threat at a high school Thursday morning, deputies said. According to a ...

When a visitor arrived at one nursing home, a child housed there appeared to try to escape. “He made a run for it,” the witness testified. “He hopped out of that bed and was really jetting for the ...

Deputies said the sexual misconduct reportedly happened in a cell at the Kissimmee Youth Academy, a juvenile detention facility part of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. The 17-year ...