2016 Arkansas Code
Title 9 - Family Law
Subtitle 3 - Minors
Chapter 28 - Placement or Detention
Subchapter 2 - -- Youth Services
§ 9-28-216. Separation of juvenile offenders -- Regulations -- Review

AR Code § 9-28-216 (2016) What's This?

(a) The Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services shall promulgate regulations to require the separation of juvenile offenders committed to a facility operated by the division based upon:

(1) The age of the juvenile offender;

(2) The seriousness of the crime or crimes committed by the juvenile offender; or

(3) Whether the juvenile offender has been adjudicated delinquent of a sex offense as defined under § 12-12-903(12).

(b) No regulation pertaining to the separation of juvenile offenders promulgated hereafter by the division shall be effective until reviewed by the Legislative Council, the House Committee on Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative and Military Affairs, and the Senate Interim Committee on Children and Youth, or appropriate subcommittees thereof, of the General Assembly.

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