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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 12, 2022

An oversight board tasked with reforming Rutherford County’s Juvenile Detention Center met for the first time this week, Nashville Public Radio reports. The five-member board includes Rutherford County Mayor Joe Carr, retired judge Steve Daniel, longtime juvenile court prosecutor Leslie Collum, pastor and attorney Michael McDonald, and school board member Claire Maxwell. The board was created to bring greater accountability to the county’s long-troubled juvenile justice system. It also has hiring and firing power over the detention center director. One of the board’s first tasks will be to review the center’s operating procedures.