2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 439 - PROBATION AND PAROLE 439.3101 Administrative regulations requiring supervision and treatment in accordance with evidence-based practices.
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439.3101 Administrative regulations requiring supervision and treatment in
accordance with evidence-based practices.
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The department shall promulgate administrative regulations that require the
supervision and treatment of supervised individuals in accordance with
evidence-based practices.
The administrative regulations shall, at a minimum, include:
(a) The administration of a validated risk and needs assessment on all
supervised individuals at regular intervals to determine their criminal risk
factors and to identify intervention targets;
(b) Use of assessment scores and other objective criteria throughout the
period of community supervision to determine the risk level and program
needs of each supervised individual;
(c) Caseload size guidelines that are based on supervised individuals' risk
levels and take into account department resources and employee
workload and prioritization of supervision and program resources for
supervised individuals who are at higher risk to reoffend;
(d) Definitions of various risk levels to apply to supervised individuals during
the period of community supervision;
(e) Development of a case plan for each individual who is assessed to be
moderate-to-high risk based on the risk and needs assessment, that
targets the criminal risk factors identified in the assessment, is responsive
to individual characteristics, and provides supervision of offenders
according to that case plan;
(f) Implementation of swift, certain, proportionate, and graduated sanctions
that a probation and parole officer shall apply in response to a supervised
individuals noncompliant behaviors; and
(g) Establishment of protocols and standards that assess the degree to
which policies, procedures, programs, interventions, and practices
relating to offender recidivism reduction, whether utilized by the
department or contract or referral agencies, are evidence-based.
Effective:June 8, 2011
History: Created 2011 Ky. Acts ch. 2, sec. 51, effective June 8, 2011.
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