A Florida sheriff who says he has been driven to frustration by students making false threats of violence against schools is taking a new approach to deterrence: publicly sharing the mug shots of juveniles accused of such crimes and videos of them in handcuffs. “Since parents, you don’t want to raise your kids, I’m going to start raising them,” Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said in a news conference last Friday. “Every time we make an arrest, your kid’s photo is going to be put out there. And if I can do it, I’m going to perp walk your kid.” This week, Chitwood posted videos of three juveniles aged 11, 16 and 17 who are accused of making school shooting threats — a felony in Florida — being led into a holding cell in handcuffs. Florida law permits the release of the name and images of children arrested for a felony, but juvenile justice advocates expressed concern that Chitwood’s approach would not effectively rehabilitate young offenders. “While it might feel good in the moment to shame and scare a child … these kinds of tactics ultimately don’t work,” Melissa Goemann, senior policy counsel for the National Youth Justice Network, told The Washington Post.

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