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The Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority (JJA) is a state agency of Kansas headquartered in Suite 300 of the 714 S.W. Jackson St. building in Topeka. The agency which began on July 1 1997 is a cabinet level criminal justice agency. The JJA operates juvenile correctional facilities. In 1996 the Kansas Legislature had passed the Juvenile Justice Reform Act stipulating that only the most chronic serious and violent juvenile delinquents are sent to hardware secure facilities.
