Ex parte State Department of Human Resources

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

The Alabama Department of Human Resources (“the Department”) has petitioned this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Honorable Jim Embry, Jr., judge of the Juvenile Court of St. Clair County, to vacate his order requiring the Department to finance the inpatient treatment of a delinquent child at a private mental health facility. The petition is granted.

In response to the petition, this Court issued a show cause order to Judge Embry. In his response, Judge Embry stated:

“P.P. was placed in St. Clair County by the Juvenile Court of Etowah County, at the request of…