Teen Court

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the WA and M Studio on the campus of
Florida A and M University.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
This is Mary Forum Radio, a weekly conversation on the
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Speaker 3 (00:13):
I'm Heidi Otway, your host for this conversations on Cannabis
virtual form, brought to you by the Medical Marijuana Education
and Research Initiative at Florida and M University. In this conversation,
we're talking about juvenile drug courts in Florida and how
they're helping teens caught with marijuana get a second chance.

(00:33):
So let's talk and learn about this subject with our guests.
Stephen Willis serves as a Juvenile Delinquency Court manager for
Polk County. He works in the Teen Court Diversion Program,
which is designed to help youth offenders stay out of
the criminal justice system. Steven, Welcome to the forum. Tell
us more about yourself.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
Hi, Good morning, Heidi. Thank you so much for inviting
me to this discussion panel today. As mentioned, I am
with Polk County Court administration in the tenth Circuit. I've
been with the courts for twenty eight years, so almost
as old as I am.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
I've been in the court system.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
One thing that I really do enjoy is has been
my tenure with the Polk County Teen Court Diversion Program.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I've been with our.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Team Court program for approximately seventeen years. In the last
five years, I've served as the manager for that. I
also serve on the Florida Association of Teen Court's board,
and the last two years I've served as the president
for that board. So, as you said, it's kind of
one of those self fulfilling jobs that being able to

(01:40):
take a young youthful offender out of their mistake and
help put them back on the right path. You know,
that's always a good feeling. So thank you having here.

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Mary's partners. Now, let's start this conversation on cannabis. So, Stephen,
you kind of gave us an overview in your introduction

(02:24):
about the teen court system, but can you really dig
in and tell us what is the teen court and
what is its purpose and how does it work?

Speaker 4 (02:32):
In Florida, teen court is what I would call one
of Florida's best kept secrets, and it's actually statewide. Teen
court is, as I said earlier, as a diversion program
where juvenile youthful offenders they have an opportunity to resolve
their case non judicially, and is I call it a
win win because not only is the youthful offender given

(02:56):
the opportunity to have that case resolve so that it
doesn't have that permanent record in Polk County, we're also
have an additional caveat bonus that if the child resolves
their case in teen court, it's not even fobbed with
the State Attorney's office nor with the Clerk of Court,
so it's not on their database either. The flip side

(03:19):
of that is we use high school volunteers. High school
students who volunteer ninth through twelfth grade is our limit
that doesn't have any negative background checks. You know, so
they pass the background check. They're also in good standings
with their school. We don't require honorall students, but we

(03:39):
want them to be at least passing, so that way
they're we're not interfering.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
With their studies.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
So high school students volunteer, and they're the attorneys, they're
the bailiffs, they're the jurors in the courtroom. They actually
fulfill every role in that courtroom except for the judge.
We require someone with the law degree to preside over
the cases. So many times our judges do volunteer. It

(04:06):
could be one of the private attorneys, the defense attorneys,
or it could be a public defender sometimes volunteers. And
then that student body that are the jurors are the
ones who actually sendence and sanction the youthful offender's case.
And as long as the youthful offender successfully completes all

(04:26):
of that, then, like I said earlier, their record is
never filed or their chargers are never filed with the
court system. And so we offer volunteer hours for the volunteer,
community service hours for the volunteers, and once the youthful
offender is sanctioned, one of the requirements we have is

(04:48):
that they come back and serve as a juror. So
now that youthful offender has the opportunity to have a
positive impact into the life of someone else. And a
lot of times that just the enough of the care
it dangled in front of them that they want to
come back and be a part of our team court program.
And so we call it the restorative justice component built

(05:10):
into the program and a lot of and so then
they are able to earn those volunteer community service hours
in which they can use for the Florida Vocational Gold Seal,
the Bright Future Scholarships, or any other scholarships that they
apply for. We have such a great pool of volunteers
that a lot of times some of the other agencies

(05:32):
within the courthouse, they'll reach out to us to see
if we have any students who are looking for a
student position or a part time summer position and reach
out to us first and use our students for those.
So we've been able to help several students with that.
Also with college entrances. We write recommendation letters and so

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we have a great success and turn around with that.
I do like to point out that we have what
I would can said one of the best success rights.
We have a ninety nine percent success right recidivism. We
tracked that youthful offender for two years and after two
years we have seen that they are not convicted. Ninety

(06:16):
nine percent are not convicted of.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
A second offense. And we have we.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
Took it down a little bit more to see if
they even reoffended, and we still have ninety five percent
success rate that ninety five percent of the youthful offenders
do not even re offend a second time after successful
completion of our program.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Wow, that is remarkable and fascinating.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
I am. I've seen here in Tallahassee.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
I've gone to a team court and observed a little
bit of it, and I thought it was really remarkable
how the teens are so mature and thoughtful and compassionate
you know, when they're in this process. So kudos to
you and the other folks who are in the teen
court systems here in Florida.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
So let's kind of shift to talk about how what
happens if a team comes in who's been caught with marijuana, right,
and in your experience, can you provide a little bit
of insights on the current laws and penalties that youth
experience and how that's changed over the years, and then
we'll kind of segue into what happens when the team

(07:25):
shows up in team court because they were caught with marijuana.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Sure, honey.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
One of the things that team court in Polk County,
and every county has their own set of rules. In
Polk County we do take just about all drug related defenses,
and one of the things that we see is an
increase in the bate the marijuana THHC. Bake pens which

(07:53):
in Florida is a felony charge, and so we are
fortunate enough to help that youthful event with that. And
the way the process works is typically there is it's
either an arrest or non arrest, but the law enforcement
agency that creates the affid DAVID.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Will direct file that.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
So the APIDAVID travels pretty much from the officer's hand
to our office, and if it is an arrest, then
they steal are processed at the Juvenile Assessment Center and
then upon release, that apidavit is forwarded directly to us
and once again it bypasses the Clerk of Core, it
bypasses the State Attorney's office, and then once we meet

(08:39):
with we set up an appointment with the youthful offender
and their family, and then once that appointment is set,
then we meet with them when we discuss their options
and we.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Go from there.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
So we just had a whole show on this forum
talking about the increase in team's vapor being and using
you know, common devices that look like USBs or hoods
or even water bottles that have the vape in it.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Have you is this so?

Speaker 3 (09:17):
I don't know if you could talk about the cases
that you're seeing and hearing, but is it some of
that type of this is how that individual was caught
using the cannabars?

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Are I haven't seen some of the newer gadgets, I
guess you could say, but the traditional ones where and
we don't actually confiscate the device itself.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
The officer does.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
But overall, when I so, as I mentioned early seventeen years,
it was always the what I call the street marijuana
where it was the bags, and now it has advanced
to the newer styles of ingesting. I haven't seen any
of the hoods or the water bottles, but the US

(10:00):
looking devices and the stick what they call I think
a stick pen, yeah, being those uh, the increase in that.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, and and from your perspective, are you hearing how
you know this is illegal?

Speaker 1 (10:13):
As you mentioned, how do do you.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Have you heard how these youth are getting access to
these devices I have?

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Unfortunately, just like any other medication that parents have, sometimes
we get lax. We leave it here, we leave it there,
and then our children will you know, have it, have
access to it. And a lot of times that children
are taking their parents vate pens and a lot and

(10:44):
then they'll take it to school and then they want
to share it with their friend or hey, or they'll
you know, we don't see much of it being sold
as mainly teenagers. Hey, here's my friend. I want my
friend to have a little taste of this or try
this news style, And and that's unfortunate because then the
parent is without their medication, and then you know, then

(11:06):
it also looks, you know, like an irresponsibility and sometimes
it's what we call it. You know, everybody makes a mistake,
and you know, we have to learn from those mistakes.
So it's just educating and re educating people to be responsible.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that. And and to
parents who may not even you know, recognize it.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
How do you?

Speaker 3 (11:28):
I'm sure you engage parents in the teen course system?

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Is that correct?

Speaker 2 (11:32):
I do.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Most of the times of parents are called off guard
even because sometimes you know, it's the child who I
see that does not have a parent that uses THHC
for any reason. And so what we do is we
engage that conversation. And part of it is did you
know that your child was smoking? And a lot of
times it's like I didn't know for sure, I was curious,

(11:57):
I was suspicious, I had noticed that few things, you know, changing,
and just you know, a lot of times parents are
afraid to know the truth, and sometimes they're you know,
embarrassed to really confront that, or they just don't have
the energy, as I call it, the emotional energy to
have that conversation and to develop a plan. And what's

(12:20):
going to happen if I learn that my child is
using illegal substances?

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Now does the team court provide resources for families in
that regard?

Speaker 4 (12:31):
Absolutely, I'm very fortunate. I a lot. Like I said earlier,
Polk count is probably the best. But within our circuit,
within even within our court administration, we have a problem
solving court that actually has a juvenile section.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
That's on juvenile section.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
So I am able to send my clients a youth
buil vendor directly from my office down to the floor
that that lab. We actually have a lab within the courthouse. Oh,
these feel offender will leave my office go to the
lab and it's a supervised your analysis. And that's interesting

(13:12):
because they're like, what the supervised you mean like supervised
supervised and I'm like, yes, because now you're current is
evidence and that creates an acknowledgment of the seriousness of
the case as well. That is not my byproduct. It
is evidence. This is going to be used in court.
And so we always tell them their first one is

(13:36):
their free one. This is your one chance to have
you know, your test to be positive for the illegal substances.
And it just sets accountability. And then if we feel
like that they need more accountability as far as okay,
I'm not shocked enough, We're put in accountable enough to
stop on my own. We do have a mentorship program

(13:58):
that they meet with the account or wants a month
to identify triggers and other things in life. And then
if that needs a little bit more, we actually put
them in the full what we call drug court problem
solving court where they do meet with the judge and
give an account to the judge as to the status
of their case and how well they're progressing or not progressing.

(14:20):
And then we'll add additional sanctions to that. When I
say sanctions, it's not necessarily always punishment as educational like
what are your goals? You write us an essay on
how you think you want to complete this program. What
is your goals and how it's continuing their want and.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Going to affect that goal.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
And last what we would do what I would call
the greatest or the highest level. We do have a
partnership with the Juvenile Assessment Center and the Department of
Juvenile Justice that we can refer clients to for in
house residential treatment if necessary. And all of that comes
at no cost to the families.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Wow, that is amazing. And then are the families involved
in this entire process? Are they getting services and support
to help them, you know, keep that young person on
the road to recovery or the road to you know,
a better outcome.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
To be very honest, I wish that parents were more
involved with that, because we do have the option for
them to be involved. Some parents for work purposes, they
are not able to leave work to engage in those services.
And then there's a few parents that the attitude is,

(15:38):
I didn't get in trouble, so I'm not going to
provide my assistance.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
I've told my child, I've educated my child. You know,
you get in trouble, you got to get yourself out
of trouble. And so it just.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
Depends on the dynamics of that home and the parents
availability and desire. But yes, we do have options for
them to be engaged if they good.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, that's good that they have that option. So what
is the age range of the teens that are juveniles
that participate in the teen court? I mean, what's the
youngest to what eighteen? What's what's the age range.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Or for us for the youthful offender, just as you
said juvenile, So anyone who commits the offense before their
eighteenth birthday.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
On occasion we have the youngest.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
I mean, what's like had.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
A six year old, and of course we handle that
very differently. The six year old will not be treated
the same way that the seventeen and three quarter year
old is he was celebrating his eighteenth birthday before midnight
because sometimes we have a seventeen year old that's celebrating early.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
And emits an offense.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
Fortunately it hasn't the clock hasn't struck midnight yet, so
they're technically seventeen, so I can still take that case.
And sometimes like the five year old of the six
years old, you know, we've obviously we meet with that
and we meet with the parents, we come up with
the plan. Usually the child is very remorseful and very

(17:10):
uncomfortable being in a courtroom setting or even in the courthouse,
because our offices are located within our courthouse, so coming
in they feel the reality of the seriousness of their case.
So to us, I look at that because I'm a parent,
you know, my child is you know, obviously feeling this already.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
I don't think he needs a.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
Jail tour, which we would do a jail tour for
a six year old. Yeah, we do have minimal age
requirements and a lot of things. So sometimes it is
just us as court personnel sitting down with that youthful,
that six year old and having the conversation and tell
us what you learn from this, tell us what you
could do better. How do you think mom feels, how

(17:52):
do you think dad feels and you know, in them
just walking around a courtroom and a vacant court room
and show when them the courtroom with their parents and
just having them just ask questions as well, and then
turn it into a positive is you know, would you
like to sit on the judge's bench and have your
picture taken? You know, because once again law is law,

(18:15):
but it's there to provide security and safety for everyone,
and I don't want children to be afraid of that.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Right, right?

Speaker 3 (18:22):
And has that approach helped with your success rate with
you know, fewer young people coming back through the system.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
Yeah, I very seldom see that age group, and so.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
I mean across all ages. You know that approach that
you take, that very caring, thoughtful, don't want to make
this scary approach.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
I do think so I think that.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
Because there for me anyway, I can always speak from
my personal experience going into a courtroom at a young age.
You know, you sense, oh this is serious. You know,
to come in, you have to go through security where
they checked you, take your belt off, you had to
do your pockets and and then the elevator ride up
and then you see this massive courtroom and it's like.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Oh, wow, this is yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
And sometimes we'll ask the parent if we feel like
things are going well and the child's comfortable, we'll say,
would you want to send the on the stand and
be And you know, the parent will agree to that
and let the child sit up there on the witness
stand and and I'll ask a few questions and while
they're sitting there and I say, mom, you want to
ask you know, your child anything, and just kind of

(19:36):
giving that reality of Wow, this is where I would
be sitting if I was going into a court. I'm
kind of like that like reality shock type thing. And
the parents appreciate that. And we get a lot of
calls from just the community itself saying, hey, my son's
or my daughter, my child's acting out of that school.
What can I do before it gets to a serious point,

(19:59):
And we will actually encourage the parents with some other
resources that we have and make those available as a
preventive measure as well.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah, can you tell us a little bit more about
those preventative measures, because if we have parents who are
listening or caregivers who are listening, you know, what what
should they be looking out for and how how how
would they access the Team Court program? In their community
to kind of help them or guide them.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
They can always contact me, since I do serve as
the liaison for all of the counties.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
In the state of Florida.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
Okay, great, I mean I'll try to connect them to
someone within their county, or we are working on trying
to create a national association so at some point hopefully
take it bigger than Florida. But in Polk County, if
the child is twelve years or older, we can give
them a tour of the insight of the Sheriff's Office
jail or the Pope County Sheriff's Office Jail, not as

(20:56):
scare straight what a lot of people saw on television.
It's an educational tour. We call it a site in sounds.
It's cold, it's not the doesn't have the best aroma,
and this is your living. You know, there's not any privacy.
You know, it's not like waking up in the middle night,
going downstairs and open up the refrigerator and taking a
chug of milk out.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Of the judge. You know that's not going to happen.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
You're going to get up at five am, go to
bed at five pm.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
We also have some.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Online courses educational courses that we have a third party
vendor and those courses, Now, those courses do cost us.
So if the child's not in actual charge with the
crime and going through the course.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
We would have to charge ahenomenal fee for that.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
But we have like we do open up the random
drug testing option to parents where they can say, you
know what, my child's not charged with the criminal offense,
but I know that y'all have true testing and they're observed.
Can I bring my child in for a test and
our lab will charge a very minimal feed just to

(22:01):
cover the supplies for that, and within a couple of
hours can have the results back to the parent.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
So tell me what happens if the results come back positive.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
That's just for the parent, because yeah, it's just a
it'd be no different than that parent going to a
private lab like you know, within the community, like quest
or Lab Core, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
And getting that.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
But they know because sometimes the private labs use what
we call the dipstick method where they just get to
it and there a lot of times are not necessarily
supervised your analysis, and parents just kind of want a
little bit more integrity with that test to know that
their child truly is or is not positive or not positive?

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, and then let's say that you know, it comes
back positive. Do you see parents coming back to you
all to say.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
Help, we were the initial one to set that up.
Uh so a lot of times and then I'll say, well,
this is what we're able to do.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
And my my advice is always be a proactive parent.
You know, be involved in the child's life. Make sure
that they're involved in extracurricular activities.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
You know, getting.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
Involved with sports is a deterrent because if they're busy
with something like that. You know a lot of times
sports requires that drug testing as well. And the child
really enjoys playing basketball or baseball, you know, they that's
the reason for that child not to engage in the
inappropriate behaviors or illegal substances or the extracurricular activities within

(23:43):
the schools. You know, that positive role, positive peer pressure.
Get the child involved in something like that. And if
you have to be the tough parent when you have
when the child's not home, you don't want to have
that engaging argument. Just search the search the bedroom, search
that top joy or search that backpack, pull the mattress up,
you know, look under the carpet in the corner and

(24:05):
those kinds of things. You know, a lot of parents,
you know, they are scared to do that because of
an argument. So I always say, well, you know they're
not home all the child's not home every day all day,
So do it like you have a little bit of
a time frame.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
Yeah, We've had a couple of shows where we have
folks to kind of say, if you do find you
know that your child is using marijuana, here's some things
you could do. Could you offer maybe two or three
things that if a parent does find that a resource
or a website or some something that can help them
have those tough conversations.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Because I'm going to.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
Just do a pluad for Mary and say go to
Medical Maral Floridaana University's Merry website. They have an on
demand program where parents can actually find teens in marijuana
and it actually provides resources to help you. So, Steven,
if you could provide some another resource at a parent
use should they find that their kid is using marijuana.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
Absolutely, within Polk County that we have Try County what
they called Try County Human Services, which are private entity there.
We have Peace River Counseling Services, you also just check
with your instruments company to see if there's counselors have
provided for that. A lot of times insurance companies will

(25:24):
allow I think six or eight sessions and if the
counselor feels like there's need the need for more, they
can do that. The best thing I always just be
a parent. You know I'm a parent, know your child.
Don't be afraid to have conversations with the child. And yes,
if just being real, if my child was using that,

(25:46):
of course I would be upset, but also reassured the child.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
I'm here for you.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yeah, home base is always home is always a safe place,
and we can talk about it.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
We'll get through it together.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Tell me why, you know why? A lot of times
the child is going through other issues and so they're
using it to self medicate or to mask another issue.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
So it's important to.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
Find the root cause of why am I using the
medical marijuana or illegal marijuana? Why do I think I
have to have this? The number one answer I think
I hear on that when I ask the youth when
they're in my office, is it just helps me calm down.
It helps ease my stress. And as a parent, sometimes

(26:35):
we think stress you don't have a mortgage payment, you
don't have you know, the bills of life that we do.
But you know, they do have stress on their level,
and stress is stress, and I think sometimes you have
to understand that and be a little bit understanding. Where
are children that they do have stress and they do
have other issues that are impacting them and they're just
trying to cope with life as well.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah, have there been any inser this is where a
parent was charged or got in trouble because their child
access cannabis or marijuana at all any anytime.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
I am not aware of that because on the team
court side, I don't see the actual delinquency court side.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I have I am.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
I work closely with our delinquency courts, and I have
her instances where the child would be actually in the
courtroom and a parent would be in a virtual setting
and the attorney would be representing with the child and
the parent would admit that it was their vague device.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Oh wow.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
I do not have the follow up to see if
that parent was ever charged or not.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
They Well, the one thing that I hear loud and
clear is that if adults are using medical marijuana, legally
hide your stuff hide your.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Medication from your kids. Yeah, the best advice we could give.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Absolutely, Absolutely. Kids are curious. A lot of time.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
They see it as a safe response, you know, two things,
because mom's doing or her dad's doing, her grandma's doing,
you know, so it must be safe. And then you know,
when you hear it in the news another thing, they
would say, well, it's almost legal, and then I'd be like,
but almost is still not good enough exactly, And so
then I use that as an educational pivot to go

(28:32):
vote when you're old enough.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
If you don't like laws, vote, Yeah, Stephen, this has
been so informative and I really appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
I can tell that you have a passion for the
work that you do.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
As we wrap up, do you have any closing thoughts
for our listeners and viewers.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
I don't think so, Heidi. I think overall we've discussed
a lot of things. In my heart really would say,
first and foremost, be a parent, be a child, and
enjoy each other in the phase of life that jury
in because tomorrow the child maybe thirty, it seems like,
and they're in a different role, or the parents may

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be in an elderly role and they won't be as active,
so just enjoyed the moment with the family. Families are important,
They're the core of who we are and invest in
our children.

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They're worth it.

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