2006 Code of Virginia § 16.1-293 - Supervision of juvenile or person during commitment and on parole; placing juvenile in halfway hous...

16.1-293. Supervision of juvenile or person during commitment and onparole; placing juvenile in halfway house.

At such time as the court commits a juvenile to the Department, the juvenileand domestic relations district court service unit shall maintain contactwith the juvenile during the juvenile's commitment.

If a person is placed on parole supervision following that person's releasefrom commitment to the Department, the court services unit providing parolesupervision shall furnish the person a written statement of the conditions ofhis parole and shall instruct him regarding the same. The conditions of thereenrollment plan may be included in the conditions of parole. Violations ofparole shall be heard by the court pursuant to 16.1-291. If the parolesupervision is for an indeterminate period of time, the director of thesupervising court services unit may approve termination of parole supervision.

The Department shall notify the school division superintendent in thelocality where the juvenile was enrolled of his commitment to a facility. Thecourt services unit shall, in consultation with the Department ofCorrectional Education, the local school division, and the juvenilecorrectional counselor, develop a reenrollment plan if the juvenile is ofcompulsory school attendance age or is eligible for special educationservices pursuant to 22.1-213. The reenrollment plan shall be in accordancewith regulations adopted by the Board of Education pursuant to 22.1-17.1.The superintendent shall provide the juvenile's scholastic records, asdefined in 22.1-289, and the terms and conditions of any expulsion whichwas in effect at the time of commitment or which will be in effect uponrelease. A court may not order a local school board to reenroll a juvenilewho has been expelled in accordance with the procedures set forth in 22.1-277.06. At least fourteen days prior to the juvenile's scheduledrelease, the Department shall notify the school division superintendent inthe locality where the juvenile will reside.

In the event it is determined by the juvenile and domestic relations districtcourt that a person may benefit from placement in the halfway house programoperated by the Department, the person may be referred for care and treatmentto a halfway house. Persons so placed in a halfway house shall remain inparole status and cannot be transferred or otherwise placed in anotherinstitutional setting or institutional placement operated by the Departmentexcept as elsewhere provided by law for those persons who have violatedtheir parole status.

In the event that the person was in the custody of the local department ofsocial services immediately prior to his commitment to the Department and hasnot attained the age of eighteen years, the local department of socialservices shall resume custody upon the person's release from commitment,unless an alternative arrangement for the custody of the person has been madeand communicated in writing to the Department. The court services unit shallconsult with the local department of social services four weeks prior to theperson's release from commitment on parole supervision concerning return ofthe person to the locality and the placement of the person. The courtservices unit will be responsible for supervising the person's terms andconditions of parole.

(Code 1950, 16.1-210; 1956, c. 555; 1962, c. 628; 1972, cc. 73, 708; 1973,cc. 440, 546; 1977, c. 559; 1980, c. 217; 1981, c. 487; 1985, c. 203; 1988,c. 453; 1996, cc. 755, 914, 916, 1000; 2001, cc. 688, 820, 853.)