Community Advisory Board

Dewey Caruthers uses the Community Advisory Board as a resource for guidance, direction and feedback.  Members so far include (in alpha order):

• Deborrah Brodsky, Project on Accountable Justice
• Joe Clark, former president of the Eckerd Family Foundation
• Alyson Clements, National Juvenile Justice Network
• Watson Haynes, Pinellas Urban League
• Scott McCoy, Southern Poverty Law Center
• Michelle Morton, ACLU
• Daphne Robinson, Delinquency Prosecutor, Caddo Parish District Attorney’s office, Louisiana
• Irene Sullivan, retired Circuit Judge (former juvenile judge in Pinellas County and law professor at Stetson University College of Law)

The criteria for identifying members of the Community Advisory Board:

• Agreement that Pinellas County cannot “arrest its way of the teen auto theft problem.”
• Agreement that current approaches are not working
• Consider themselves “reform-minded”