Clayton County, GA - Juvenile Court

STATISTICAL REPORTS
The following reports provide a statistical picture of the work of the Court during calendar year 2008. Most statistical reports divide the filings in the Juvenile Court into five categories. These categories include:

DELINQUENT FILINGS: Those charges that relate to law violations regardless of the age of the person committing the act such as aggravated assault, burglary, or theft.

UNRULY FILINGS: Those charges that are law violations solely because of the child's age. These would include truancy, runaway, curfew violation, etc.

DEPRIVED FILINGS: Those charges that relate to the abuse, neglect, mistreatment, or abandonment of a child.

TRAFFIC FILINGS : Those charges relating to violations of the traffic codes.

SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS: Those charges which fall outside of the above categories including termination of parental rights, extension or modification of custody, the sealing of records, waiver of parental notification of abortion, release from custody, Superior Court investigations, etc.

Table One shows an overall 25 percent decrease in filings for 2009 over 2004. From this chart it is apparent that there has been a steady decline in the number of cases filed over the last five years.
This decrease mainly relates to the fact that there has been a decrease in the number of delinquent cases filed over the last five years. Deprived, unruly, traffic and special proceedings cases have remained more or less steady over the last several years. Traffic cases are the least labor intensive charges that come before the Court while filings on delinquency and deprivation require the largest investment of staff time.

Following Table Two are tables outlining the breakdown of filings in each category by race and sex. The final table reflects the total number of complaint filings by age for the year 2008.

Table One (pdf) - Total Count Filings (2005-2009) bar chart
Table Two (pdf) - Total Count Filings by Type (2005-2009) line chart
Table Three (pdf) - Breakdown of Filings by Race and Sex (2009)
Table Four (pdf) - Delinquent Filings by Race and Sex (2009)
Table Five (pdf) - Unruly Filings by Race and Sex (2009)
Table Six (pdf) - Deprived Filings by Race and Sex (2009)
Table Seven (pdf) - Traffic Filings by Race and Sex (2009)
Table Eight (pdf) - Special Proceedings Filings by Race and Sex (2009)
Table Nine (pdf) - Complaint Filings by Age Groups (2009)