Juvenile Justice
Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Corrections & Juvenile Justice, Department of; grievance procedures for certain employees. [HB-1069]
Department of Human Resource Management; grievance procedures for certain employees of the Departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice. Clarifies that employees of the Departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice may appeal their terminations for abuse only through the Department of Human Resource Management applicable grievance procedures, which shall not include successive grievance steps or the formal hearing provided in § 2.2-3005.
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Louisiana 2013 Regular Session
Expresses intent of the Louisiana Legislature regarding the allocation and distribution of juvenile detention facility beds and requests study to evaluate how to ensure adequate access to beds for youth in juvenile detention facilities. [SCR-55]
Expresses intent of the Louisiana Legislature regarding the allocation and distribution of juvenile detention facility beds and requests study to evaluate how to ensure adequate access to beds for youth in juvenile detention facilities.
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Louisiana 2013 Regular Session
Provides relative to at-risk youths and development of an integrated case management system. (8/1/13) [SB-107]
Provides relative to at-risk youths and development of an integrated case management system. (8/1/13)
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Background checks; children's residential facilities regulated by Department of Juvenile Justice. [SB-992]
Background checks; children's residential facilities regulated by the Department of Juvenile Justice. Provides that the requirement for criminal history background checks for children's residential facilities shall also apply to local secure detention facilities.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Corrections and Juvenile Justice, Departments of; powers and duties of Director, etc. [SB-943]
Departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice; powers and duties of the Director. Provides the Directors of the Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice with the power to designate certain employees with internal investigations authority within those Departments as having the same power as a sheriff or a law-enforcement officer to investigate allegations of criminal behavior affecting the operations of those Departments. The bill also requires such employees shall be subject to any minimum training standard required by
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Independent living services; foster children committed to Department of Juvenile Justice. [SB-863]
Independent living services. Provides that local departments of social services and licensed child-placing agencies may make independent living services available to persons 18 to 21 years of age who are released from commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice after reaching 18 years of age and who were committed or entrusted to the care of a local board of social services or child-placing agency at the time they were committed to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice. The bill expands the definition of "independent living services"
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Juvenile Justice, Board of; increases membership. [SB-1187]
Board of Juvenile Justice; membership. Increases the membership of the Board of Juvenile Justice to include two experienced educators.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Juveniles; legal custody transferred to Department of Juvenile Justice. [HB-463]
Legal custody of juveniles in custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice. Clarifies that commitment of a child by a court to the Department of Juvenile Justice is a transfer of legal custody if, at the time of commitment, the child is in foster care.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Juvenile Justice, Board of; increases membership. [HB-2123]
Board of Juvenile Justice; membership. Increases the membership of the Board of Juvenile Justice to include two experienced educators.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Juvenile correctional centers; offenses committed by persons committed to DJJ, etc. [HB-2065]
Correctional centers; adult and juvenile; penalties. For selected offenses, imposes the same penalties for offenses committed by persons confined in a juvenile correctional center as currently exist for adult prisoners. Persons who deliver certain items to committed juveniles or allow their escape will face penalties comparable to the same conduct involving adult prisoners. The bill makes it a Class 6 felony, with a six-month mandatory minimum term of confinement, to assault persons directly involved in the care, treatment, or supervision of persons
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Corrections and Juvenile Justice, Departments of; powers and duties of Director, etc. [HB-1877]
Departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice; powers and duties of the Director. Provides the Directors of the Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice with the power to designate certain employees with internal investigations authority within those Departments as having the same power as a sheriff or a law-enforcement officer to investigate allegations of criminal behavior affecting the operations of those Departments. The bill also requires such employees shall be subject to any minimum training standard required by
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Independent living services; foster children committed to Department of Juvenile Justice, etc. [HB-1743]
Independent living services. Provides that local departments of social services and licensed child-placing agencies may make independent living services available to persons 18 to 21 years of age who are released from commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice after reaching 18 years of age and who were committed or entrusted to the care of a local board of social services or child-placing agency at the time they were committed to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice. The bill expands the definition of "independent living services"
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Background checks; children's residential facilities regulated by Department of Juvenile Justice. [HB-1439]
Background checks; children's residential facilities regulated by the Department of Juvenile Justice. Provides that the requirement for criminal history background checks for children's residential facilities shall also apply to local secure detention facilities.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Circuit court hearing; termination of juvenile court jurisdiction. [SB-583]
Courts not of record; circuit court hearing; termination of juvenile court jurisdiction; objections and appeals. Provides, in certain violent felony cases, for a juvenile's right to appeal to the circuit court the attorney for the Commonwealth's decision to certify that the juvenile's case be transferred to the circuit court for trial as an adult. If the juvenile appeals the decision to transfer, the circuit court will conduct a hearing on the merits, using factors currently used by the juvenile and domestic relations district court for transfer
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Confidential juvenile records; sharing with state and local correctional facilities, confidential. [SB-476]
Confidential juvenile records; sharing with state, local, and regional correctional facilities. Provides for the sharing of juvenile records with state and local correctional facilities when such facility has custody of or is providing supervision for a person convicted as an adult who is the subject of such records.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Va. Fire Services Board and State Board of Juvenile Justice; powers & duties. [SB-411]
Secretary of Public Safety; Virginia Fire Services Board; State Board of Juvenile Justice; powers and duties. Consolidates, eliminates, and alters various powers and duties of the Virginia Fire Services Board and the State Board of Juvenile Justice regarding regulations, reporting, oversight, and the policy-making functions of the boards. The bill abolishes the Interagency Drug Offender Screening and Assessment Committee. The bill contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
DCJS; provides minimum training standards for juvenile correctional officers. [SB-293]
Department of Criminal Justice Services; minimum training standards; juvenile correctional officers. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Criminal Justice Services Board to provide compulsory minimum entry-level training standards for juvenile correctional officers.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Juveniles; court to conduct review hearing in secure facility via two-way electronic video. [HB-849]
Juveniles held in secure local facility; conduct of hearing. Authorizes the court to conduct the mandatory review hearing for a juvenile held in a secure local facility via the use of two-way electronic video and audio communication. Such hearing shall otherwise be conducted in the same manner as if the juvenile appeared in person.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Juvenile offenses; State attorney to file motion with court of offenses requiring registration. [HB-753]
Juvenile offenses; sex offender registry; motion by the attorney for the Commonwealth. Amends the section that permits an attorney for the Commonwealth to file a motion for the court to determine whether circumstances warrant the placement of a juvenile adjudicated delinquent of a sex offense on the sex offender registry by allowing the motion to be made at any time that the offender is within the jurisdiction of the court for the offense that is the basis for the motion. Currently, the law does not specifically address any time frame during which
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Juveniles; legal custody transferred to Department of Juvenile Justice. [HB-463]
Legal custody of juveniles in custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice. Clarifies that commitment of a child by a court to the Department of Juvenile Justice is a transfer of legal custody if, at the time of commitment, the child is in foster care.