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Wednesday, February 3, 1999
Fayette juvenile court staffed by good people

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I'm responding to a letter in your newspaper from a Peachtree City parent who accused the Peachtree City police of targeting teens, and the Fayette County Juvenile Court system of being complacent and acquiescent to this policy.

I live in Peachtree City. I have two teenagers. They have both been through the Fayetteville Juvenile Court system on several occasions. The probation officers of the Fayette County juvenile judicial system are true unsung heroes! I found them fair, sympathetic, possessing patience and good senses of humor.

There are certain things about Georgia that they don't tell you when you move here from out of state. They don't tell you about the giant spiders in the garage, the tornadoes, and they don't tell you that they arrest more people than any other state in the nation.

Police are people, even in Peachtree City, and you get the good ones, and you get the bad ones. I've got two in Peachtree City I think the world of and two I avoid like the plague. Now, you are allowed to call up their boss, you know, and tell him about stuff if you have a complaint. I know; I have.

Boot camp isn't the worst thing in the world either. Milledgeville is a great boot camp; Ocilla is kind of devoid of features, though. RYDC in Griffin has changed tremendously for the better in the past year and a half.

I know these are our children and it seems so extreme; other towns in the country have no curfews; no one there knows anyone who ever got arrested for anything.

Maybe it's the nature of the state of Georgia, but just like the spiders in the garage, these guys with the light racks on their cars are a fact of life here. I don't speed anymore, anywhere, and I don't walk barefoot in the garage.

I think that the Fayette Juvenile Court system makes the best of the situation handed them by Georgia lawmakers. In fact, one of them remarked to me, "Kids can't even be kids anymore." These officers of the court do care!

Alex Sherry
Peachtree City


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