House Committee Discussing OJJDP Grants Today

The House Committee on Oversight and Government reform is holding its hearing today, just over a week delayed, to discuss grantmaking procedures at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. For background on this critical hearing, check previous Juvienation coverage here, here and here, and be sure to visit the Youth Today website here. Speaking of which, Youth Today editor Patrick Boyle, who broke the scandal months ago, is live-blogging the hearing here. Also, the committee has made streaming video of the hearing available here. Relevant documents, including committee chair Henry Waxman’s opening statement and OJJDP head J. Robert Flores’s testimony, are available in PDF format here.

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