2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 17a - Social and Human Services and Resources
Chapter 319 - Department of Children and Families
Section 17a-7a - Standard leave and release policies for delinquent children committed to department. Regulations.

(a) The Commissioner of Children and Families shall adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, to establish standard leave and release policies for juvenile delinquents committed to the Department of Children and Families and assigned to state facilities and private residential programs. Such regulations shall provide that juvenile delinquents shall not be eligible for:

(1) Any leave without an initial sixty-day evaluation of fitness and security risk, including a trial leave not exceeding one day; or

(2) Any leave or release without (A) an evaluation of fitness and security risk, (B) the assignment of supervision and clear identification of custody of a parent, legal guardian or other responsible adult, (C) confidential notification of local police for a leave or release granted to a serious juvenile offender, and (D) a determination of eligibility immediately prior to granting the leave or release of a delinquent.

(b) The commissioner may waive the requirement for a sixty-day evaluation of fitness and security risk pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of this section for a juvenile delinquent who is transferred from one facility to another if the juvenile delinquent has had a satisfactory sixty-day evaluation of fitness and security risk pursuant to said subdivision.

(P.A. 97-130; P.A. 11-156, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 11-156 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended same to insert Subdiv. designators and make conforming and technical changes, and added Subsec. (b) re waiver of sixty-day evaluation of fitness and security risk re transfer.