Jay Blitzman News Today

A changing of the guard is coming for the state’s child welfare system and with it, perhaps, an unusual opportunity to overhaul an overburdened system responsible for the well-being of more than 40,000 children.

Nonprofits join with law enforcement groups urging more training.

Enrollment at BPS has been declining, especially among Black students.

A Massachusetts representative is proposing a change to state law in the wake of a story from the NBC10 Investigators, which detailed how DCF workers removed...

A Waltham couple took their 4-month-old son to the hospital with a high fever, but when an X-ray revealed an old rib injury, DCF took custody of their kids. The...

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Some states are changing their laws to address the fact that living with a juvenile record can make it harder for a young person to succeed as an adult. But the road to expungement is still laden with pitfalls, including varied state policies, courtroom bureaucracy, and public access concerns.

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month appears to change course on the sentencing of juveniles. The justices ruled that judges can use their discretion and sentence juvenile offenders to life in prison without parole. The ruling essentially limits an earlier Supreme Court ruling that said life sentences for young people could not be mandatory. For more on this and what it might mean for Massachusetts, WBURs Deb Becker spoke with retired Judge Jay Blitzman, who served as first justice of the Mid...