Relates to judges presiding over designated youth parts

More judges qualify for youth cases

Effective immediately, New York law allows qualified superior court judges, as well as family court judges, to preside over youth cases. The courts' chief administrator must approve superior court judges based on prior training and experience. Relevant experience includes juvenile delinquency cases in family court or adolescent or juvenile offender cases in superior court. All youth-part judges must receive training in juvenile justice, adolescent development, youth custody and care, and treatments to reduce unlawful conduct. The chief administrator must establish a youth part in each county's superior court and authorize judges to exercise superior court powers. These parts have exclusive authority over juvenile and adolescent offender proceedings, except where the youth-part law or Article 725 allows otherwise.