2006 Kansas Code - 38-1675

      38-1675.   Same; discharge from commitment; notification to county or district attorney, victims and local law enforcement agency. (a) Unless a juvenile is sentenced pursuant to an extended jurisdiction juvenile prosecution upon court order, and the commissioner transfers the juvenile offender to the custody of the secretary of corrections, when a juvenile offender has reached the age 23 years or has completed the prescribed term of incarceration at a juvenile correctional facility together with any conditional release following the program, the commissioner shall discharge the juvenile offender from any further obligation under the commitment. The discharge shall operate as a full and complete release from any obligations imposed on the juvenile offender arising from the offense for which the juvenile offender was committed.

      (b)   For acts committed before July 1, 1999, at least 45 days prior to the discharge of the juvenile offender, the juvenile justice authority shall notify the court and the county or district attorney of the county where the offender was adjudicated a juvenile offender of the discharge of such juvenile offender, if such juvenile offender's offense would have constituted a class A, B or C felony before July 1, 1993, or an off-grid felony, a nondrug crime ranked at severity level 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 or a drug crime ranked at severity level 1, 2 or 3, on or after July 1, 1993, if committed by an adult. The county or district attorney shall give written notice at least 30 days prior to the discharge of the juvenile offender to: (1) Any victim of the juvenile offender's crime who is alive and whose address is known to the court or, if the victim is deceased, to the victim's family if the family's address is known to the court; and (2) the local law enforcement agency. Failure to notify pursuant to this section shall not be a reason to postpone a discharge. Nothing in this section shall create a cause of action against the state or county or an employee of the state or county acting within the scope of the employee's employment as a result of the failure to notify pursuant to this section.

      History:   L. 1982, ch. 182, § 111; L. 1990, ch. 149, § 5; L. 1994, ch. 282, § 3; L. 1996, ch. 229, § 90; L. 1997, ch. 156, § 70; L. 1997, ch. 156, § 71; L. 2000, ch. 150, § 28; June 1.