ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — After violence erupted on Albany streets on the Fourth of July, Mayor Kathy Sheehan questioned why the city had not received enough funding from the county for support services to keep youthful offenders out of the system under the state’s Raise the Age Law. The law makes it so 16 and 17-year-olds are not tried as adults.
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William Connors, Director of Probation said, “We are seeing more violent crimes being committed by the youth.”
The concerns of violence from young offenders led many leaders in Albany to ask where the money from Raise the Age initiatives was.
“I would like to know if there’s any truth to the mayor’s assertion that Albany County has fewer programs to engage young people today than it did when New York State Raise the Age legislation first went into effect,” asked Chairman Jeffrey Kuhn…