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  • Deputy Mayor Beatriz "B.B." Otero, who oversees DYRS.

    DYRS workers lack legal licenses

    Despite a D.C. law that requires a social worker's license to perform "psychosocial evaluation and assessment, counseling, and consultation" for those who work with youth offenders, only five of more than 30 case managers in the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services possess such a license.

  • Frank Ramirez, a manager at Don Lobo's Mexican Grill, describes the scene where a young man was shot in the head from a passing car on Halloween night in front of the restaurant in the 2800 block of M St. NW in Georgetown, seen in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 1, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)

    Halloween night shooting victim was DYRS ward

    The D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) continued to demonstrate this week a lack of control over wards of the city committed to its custody, with dire consequences in at least one case.

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