K.J.M. v. State

DONALDSON, Judge.

These consolidated appeals present a matter of first impression for this court: whether, for purposes of determining if a child is in need of supervision under the Alabama Juvenile Justice Act (“the AJJA”), § 12-15-101 et seq., Ala.Code 1975, a juvenile court may rely on a local school board’s definition of the term “truancy,” if it differs from the definition of that term 'as promulgated by the Alabama State Board of Education (“the ASBE”) in the Alabama Administrative Code.

Under the AJJA, a child in need of supervision is defined to include

“[a] child who has been…