State v. Roeper

I. INTRODUCTION

{1} Defendant appeals her criminal conviction for failure to enforce compulsory school attendance resulting from her fifteen-year-old son's habitual truancy. We conclude that the Compulsory School Attendance Law (the Act), NMSA 1978, §§ 22-12-1 to -10 (1967, as amended through 2017) requires that the juvenile probation office conduct an investigation into whether Defendant's child was "a neglected child or a child in a family in need of services" pursuant to Section 22-12-7(C) and, taking the information discovered in that investigation into consideration, make a determination…