Wooden judge gavel and police handcuffs isolated on black background
Wooden judge gavel and police handcuffs isolated on black background

Child Studies’ Gabriella Celeste dicussed her efforts to reform policing youth

When police and youth encounter each other, bad things don’t have to happen

headshot of CWRU's Gabriella Celeste

Governing: Gabriella Celeste, policy director at the Schubert Center for Child Studies, discussed her effort to convince the state to adopt standards for policing youth—and the breakthrough: This May, the Ohio Collaborative Community Police Advisory Board voted to adopt a statewide minimum standard stating that “because youth are psychologically, emotionally and physically different from adults, they occupy a unique legal status that entitles them to special legal protections.”