(a) Presently circuit judges must often choose between imposing no sanction at all or committing juveniles to the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services. Judges should have punitive options available as alternatives to confinement. Therefore, it is the intent of the General Assembly that a continuum of graduated sanctions be available […]
(a) The Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services shall ensure that each judicial district has a continuum of sanctions available through its contracts with community-based providers. The sanctions may include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) House arrest as enforced by electronic monitoring or intensive supervision; (2) Restitution; (3) […]
(a) The Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services may impose any community-based sanction on a juvenile in its custody or who is in aftercare as a result of having been committed. (b) The court may impose community-based sanctions as an original disposition, revocation of probation, or as a contempt sanction. (c) […]
(a) Each new professional or consultant service contract over twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) of the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services with a community-based provider shall be filed for review with the Legislative Council or the Joint Budget Committee if the General Assembly is in session at least thirty (30) days […]
