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Nov 12 2025
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Children are not safe in custody at the troubled Knox County juvenile detention center, the former interim superintendent of the facility told Knox News on Nov. 11, two days after he abruptly quit with no explanation.
Brian Bivens resigned, he said in a written statement, because county leaders have failed to live up to their promises to turn around the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center.
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In light of the County’s failure to make good on its commitment to these children and to this community, I could not, in good conscience, remain involved."
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The saga continues...Emails
The saga continues...
Emails between [former interim superintendent Brian] Bivens and county officials in the two weeks prior to his resignation show ongoing friction, including over lack of financial support to fix longstanding issues at the facility.
“I have not received ONE cent to fix 52 years of mismanagement,” Bivens said in an email to Knox County Chief of Staff Dwight Van de Vate on November 7.
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“The Sheriff is not and in my opinion WILL not ever take this circus on!” he wrote in the same November 7 email to Van de Vate.