90.5 WESA, 3/19/25: “An Allegheny County Council committee Tuesday moved forward with three finalists to fill a position on the Juvenile Detention Board of Advisors.

‘We owe it to the youth and their families to make sure that they are getting what the facilities say they are getting, and that they do feel protected, and they do feel that they are making progress,’ said finalist Terri Collin Dilmore, a clinical and forensic psychologist and assistant professor at Howard University.

She said one of the goals for the board was to ensure ‘there are mechanisms in place where we are able to see that … these systems are accountable.’

The state-mandated board is meant to offer a community perspective on the operations at the Shuman Juvenile Detention Center. It’s responsible for compiling an annual report recommending a budget for facility maintenance, but it otherwise has no statutory authority.

The committee had eight names before it, each recommended by council members, and winnowed down to a short list of three. Along with Dilmore, the finalists included Rabbi Moishe Mayir Vogel, executive director of the Aleph Institute, a Jewish humanitarian organization, and Lee Davis, director of violence prevention at Greater Valley Community Services.

The full council is expected to approve those choices at its meeting next Tuesday. Their names will then be sent to County Executive Sara Innamorato, who will pick one to join four other board nominees of her choosing.”

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