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A new Colorado hotline will help parents get their kids back in school after they’ve entered the criminal justice system

Michelle Villanueva’s son was just 11 when Douglas County school resource officers handcuffed him and put him in a patrol car, leaving the sixth-grader for two hours before booking the boy, who has autism, into juvenile jail for poking a classmate with a pencil. After the August 2019 incident, Villanueva no longer felt comfortable sending her son to Sagewood Middle School in Parker. “There was just a whole lot of trust broken,” she said. But Villanueva’s son, who The Denver Post is only identifying by his initials — A.V.

 

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