A District panel developed after a spate of murders committed by fugitive juveniles hasn’t met more than 15 months after the law establishing it went into force, the city’s inspector general has found. “There have been no findings and recommendations since the act’s implementation … that address the continuing threat to the safety and well-being of absconding youths and all other District residents,” investigators wrote.

After 15 Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services wards were charged with homicide in a one-year stretch, city leaders ordered the agency to establish a committee to review serious crimes involving absconders.