New look at fighting truancy

City officials are taking a new look at a school truancy crackdown effort that some fear has become simply a harassment campaign against kids in minority and poor neighborhoods. Daily News,

The city has had a daytime curfew policy in place since 1995, allowing police officers to write tickets to juveniles who are not in class during school hours.

But community groups found the tickets were being issued arbitrarily to kids even if they were just a little late for class, and they were being given disproportionately to youths in poor and minority neighborhoods.