Juvenile Code Reform Legislation (HB 879) Becomes Effective December 1, 2015

Published for NC Criminal Law on July 20, 2015.

In a prior post, I wrote about SB 331, which proposed several changes to the delinquency subchapter of the Juvenile Code. That bill didn’t make it. Instead, it became HB 879 (enacted as S.L. 2015-58), which includes several new laws intended to either increase due process protections for juveniles, reduce further entry of juveniles in ... Read more

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