2024 Iowa Code
Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 905 - COMMUNITY-BASED CORRECTIONAL PROGRAM
Section 905.6 - Duties of director.

905.6 Duties of director. The director employed by the Iowa department of corrections shall be qualified in the administration of correctional programs. The director shall: 1. Perform the duties and have the responsibilities delegated or specified by the Iowa department of corrections. 2. Manage the district department’s community-based correctional program, in accordance with the policies of the Iowa department of corrections. 3. Employ, with approval of the Iowa department of corrections, and supervise the employees of the district department, including reserve peace officers, if a force of reservepeace officers has been established. 4. Prepare all budgets and fiscal documents, and certify for payment all expenses and payrolls lawfully incurred by the district department. 5. Act as secretary to the district advisory board, prepare its agenda and record its proceedings. The district shall provide a copy of minutes from each meeting of the districtadvisory board to the legislative services agency. 6. Develop and submit to the Iowa department of corrections a plan for the establishment, implementation, and operation of a community-based correctional program in that judicialdistrict, which program conforms to the guidelines drawn up by the Iowa departmentof corrections under this chapter and which conform to rules, policies, and procedurespertaining to the supervision of parole and work release adopted by the director of the Iowadepartment of corrections concerning the community-based correctional program. 7. Negotiate and, upon approval by the Iowa department of corrections, implement contracts or other arrangements for utilization of local treatment and service resourcesauthorized by subsection 15. 8. Administer the batterers’ treatment program for domestic abuse offenders required in section 708.2B. 9. Notify the board of parole, thirty days prior to release, of the release from a residential facility operated by the district department of a person serving a sentence under section902.12. 10. File with the director of the Iowa department of corrections, within ninety days after the close of each fiscal year, a report covering the district advisory board’s proceedings anda statement of receipts and expenditures during the preceding fiscal year. 11. Arrange for, upon approval of the Iowa department of corrections, by contract or on such alternative basis as may be mutually acceptable, and equip suitable quarters at one ormore sites in the district as may be necessary for the district department’s community-basedcorrectional program, provided that the director shall to the greatest extent feasible utilizeexisting facilities and shall keep capital expenditures for acquisition, renovation, and repairof facilities to a minimum. The director shall not enter into lease-purchase agreements for thepurposes of constructing, renovating, expanding, or otherwise improving a community-basedcorrectional facility or office unless express authorization has been granted by the generalassembly, and current funding is adequate to meet the lease-purchase obligation. 12. Have authority to accept property by gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise, and to sell or exchange any property so accepted and apply the proceeds thereof, or the property receivedin exchange therefor, to the purposes enumerated in subsection 11. 13. Recruit, promote, accept, and use local financial support for the district department’s community-based correctional program from private sources such as community servicefunds, business, industrial and private foundations, voluntary agencies, and other lawfulsources. 14. Accept and expend state and federal funds available directly to the district department for all or any part of the cost of its community-based correctional program. 15. Arrange, by contract or on an alternative basis mutually acceptable, and with approval of the director of the Iowa department of corrections or that director’s designee for utilizationof existing local treatment and service resources, including but not limited to employment,job training, general, special, or remedial education; psychiatric and marriage counseling;and substance use disorder treatment and counseling. Sat Dec 23 12:43:39 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 905.6 (16, 1)

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§905.6, COMMUNITY-BASED CORRECTIONAL PROGRAM 2 16. Have authority to establish a force of reserve peace officers, either separately or collectively through a chapter 28E agreement, as provided in chapter 80D. [C79, 81, §905.6; 81 Acts, ch 207, §4]83 Acts, ch 96, §137, 159; 88 Acts, ch 1084, §3; 91 Acts, ch 218, §29; 91 Acts, ch 267, §421; 95 Acts, ch 77, §7; 2001 Acts, ch 104, §8; 2003 Acts, ch 35, §45, 49; 2003 Acts, ch 156, §14;2023 Acts, ch 19, §2785 Section amended Sat Dec 23 12:43:39 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 905.6 (16, 1)

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