Ex Parte Dept. of Human Resources

The Alabama Department of Human Resources ("the Department") has petitioned this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Honorable James M. White, judge of the Juvenile Court of Bibb County, to vacate his order requiring the Department to pay for the treatment of a delinquent child at a private, residential mental health facility. The writ is granted.

The parties in this case agree that the child in question, who was adjudged delinquent after engaging in certain acts of sexual misconduct, desperately needs the treatment that he is presently receiving in the Three Springs Sexual Offender…