TAMPA, Fla. — How do the higher discipline numbers for Black students in Bay Area schools impact the amount of Black children in juvenile detention facilities?
According to the Department of Juvenile Justice, out of the more than 4,300 kids arrested, 602 students were arrested in Hillsborough county schools in 2018-19.
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Hillsborough County communication officials still haven’t provided us with the details of the students arrested there, but we did get that information from Pinellas County school officials. In Pinellas County, there were 454 school related arrests. Black students make up the majority of those arrests with 208 Black males and 99 Black females, compared to 81 white males and 31 white females.
We spoke to state and local leaders who said this trend is feeding the school-to-prison pipeline.
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Watch the video above for the full story from Spectrum Bay News 9's Saundra Weathers.