In the Interest of B. D. T.

Pope, Presiding Judge.

B. D. T., a juvenile, committed a burglary in Fulton County and an armed robbery in Bartow County. He was sentenced as a designated felon under OCGA § 15-11-37, and was committed to the custody of the Georgia Department of Children & Youth Services (“DCYS”) for a period of detention and treatment of not less than 12 months. Five months after sentencing, however, the DCYS still had not retrieved B. D. T. from the Fulton County Detention Center, where he was being detained without treatment, despite Fulton County’s request that the DCYS do so. Concerned that the DCYS was…