State, Department of Juvenile Justice v. Soud

WEBSTER, Judge.

By a petition for a writ of certiorari, the Department of Juvenile Justice seeks review of an “administrative order” entered by the respondent circuit judge. The “administrative order” purports to direct that the Department “consider for appropriate aggravation” a list of “factors and circumstances” when performing its statutory duty in juvenile delinquency cases to prepare risk assessment instruments for those accused of having committed a delinquent act. We conclude that we possess jurisdiction to consider the petition, and that the “administrative order” was entered in…