Lancaster County - Barnes Hall County government has a number of responsibilities that it must carry out on behalf of its citizens. The most important responsibility is public safety. The simple fact is that there are still many juveniles on our streets committing serious crimes. In 1985, there were 654 juvenile hearings. In 1998, this number increased to 1,846.
Juveniles continue to commit serious crimes.
And courts are seeing juveniles as young as 10 years old committing these crimes.