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| Ga. deputy juvenile justice chief quits |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/16/2004 |
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The deputy commissioner of Georgia's juvenile justice system has resigned after less than three months on the job. Frank Alarcon told Juvenile Justice Commissioner Albert Murray that he was stepping down for "personal reasons." Alarcon declined to be interviewed, and Murray was unavailable to comment Friday, a department spokeswoman told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Murray hired Alarcon to the $110,000-a-year job overseeing Georgia's youth prisons and detention centers starting May 17. The hiring was controversial from the beginning. Alarcon resigned last spring from Florida's youth prisons system after a teenager died in custody. Five years ago, he was fired as chief of California's system after the state inspector general found mismanagement and sexual misconduct by staff members with girls at a youth correctional facility. Murray said in May that he stood by his decision to hire Alarcon. Ericka Davis, the department spokeswoman, said Friday that Alarcon was not asked to resign. "It was his decision," she said. Murray was named by Gov. Sonny Perdue in January to replace Orlando Martinez, who was hired as commissioner in 1999 to correct problems in the juvenile detention system that were cited by a federal report. |
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