While various federal and state laws provide protections for youth with disabilities, school districts and law enforcement routinely fail to adequately address the needs of these children before simply deferring them to the courts. Thus, three to five times as many youth with disabilities are involved with the juvenile justice system compared with the general public school population. So in this episode Host Kristen Anderson sits down with the dream team from Disability Rights Tennessee, Assistant Legal Director Sherry Wilds and Staff Attorney Daniel Ellis, to learn more about advocating for the rights of our most vulnerable clients.