Source: https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2014/bills/HB2490_CD2_.htm
Timestamp: 2020-02-22 02:05:03
Document Index: 95007354

Matched Legal Cases: ['§352', '§571', '§571', '§571', '§571', '§352', '§571', '§571']

HB2490 CD2.DOC
The legislature also finds that over the last decade, the proportion of youth in Hawaii confined for nonviolent offenses has risen, as has the proportion confined for misdemeanor offenses. In fiscal year 2013, seventy-two and sixty-one per cent of admissions for a new offense were youth committed for a nonviolent or misdemeanor offense, respectively. Between fiscal year 2004 and fiscal year 2013, average lengths of stay in the Hawaii youth correctional facility rose from 2.5 months to 7.2 months, and forty-six per cent of the commitments to the correctional facility came from the neighbor islands, which are home to just thirty-one per cent of all youth.
The legislature further finds that the working group also identified opportunities for strengthening juvenile probation. During the last decade, probation terms increased one hundred fifty-five per cent, but probation staff still encounter significant difficulty in accessing resources for youth on probation. Furthermore, inconsistent probation practices across the circuits may lead to disparate treatment of youth.
(1) Improve and enhance Hawaii's juvenile justice system by concentrating secure bed space on serious juvenile offenders and strengthening disposition, adjustment, diversion, and services available for juvenile offenders to ensure that family court judges, court staff, departmental staff, and service providers have the tools they need to keep youth safely and effectively in their communities; and
(2) Increase interagency collaboration and implement a temporary oversight committee to continually improve juvenile justice practices and ensure accountability.
"§352- Reentry plans; notification. (a) The director or the director's designee shall develop a comprehensive reentry plan for each person committed to the Hawaii youth correctional facilities who is not serving a concurrent term of probation. The scope of the reentry plan shall address the period of time from admission to the Hawaii youth correctional facilities until parole or final discharge from the department. The reentry plan shall seek to prepare committed persons for transition to the community. The reentry plan required under this section shall be completed within thirty days of a person's commitment to the Hawaii youth correctional facilities and shall include:
(c) The director or the director's designee may collaborate with, and provide information to, the probation officer of a person committed to the Hawaii youth correctional facilities who is serving a concurrent term of probation, upon the probation officer's request, for the probation officer to incorporate the reentry plan into the person's case plan required under section 571-A at the probation officer's discretion.
(d) The director or the director's designee shall notify the parent, legal guardian, or custodian, and any relevant agency or service provider that may be involved in the person's transition to the community, at least thirty days prior to discharging a committed person, of the intended discharge of the person.
SECTION 3. Chapter 571, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding four new sections to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§571-A Probation supervision requirements. Every child placed on probation pursuant to section 571-48(1)(A) shall be supervised in accordance with the following requirements:
(2) A case plan, as defined in section 571-2, shall be developed for each child and submitted to the court. The case plan shall be developed in consultation with the child and the child's parent, legal guardian, or custodian. The probation officer assigned to each child shall keep the child's parent, legal guardian, or custodian informed regarding development of and progress toward the case plan, the child's conduct, compliance with the conditions of probation, and any other relevant matter in the child's case;
(3) A child whose probation term and case plan require in‑person visits with a probation officer shall receive at least one home visit; provided that the first visit shall take place within forty-five days of the child's placement on probation; provided further that a home visit shall not be required when the probation officer has reasonable perceptions of risks to the probation officer's safety due to known factors of violent criminal activity or isolation of the child's place of residence. The probation officer shall immediately report any reasonable perceptions of risks to a supervisor and may receive permission to waive the home visit requirement for the child or to conduct the home visit accompanied by another;
(4) Probation officers shall have the authority to impose graduated sanctions in response to a violation of the rules and conditions of probation, as an alternative to judicial modification or revocation pursuant to section 571-50, or to award incentives or rewards for positive behavior exhibited by the child. The graduated sanctions and incentives shall be established as follows:
(A) The judiciary shall adopt guidelines and procedures for the development and application of a statewide graduated sanctions and incentives system in accordance with this section, and the deputy chief court administrator in each judicial circuit, or the administrator's designee, shall adopt policies or procedures for the implementation of the adopted graduated sanctions and incentives system to guide probation officers in imposing sanctions and awarding incentives;
(B) The system shall include a series of presumptive sanctions for the most common types of probation violations but shall allow for a child's risk level and seriousness of violation to be taken into consideration. The system shall also identify incentives that a child may receive as a reward for compliance with the rules and conditions of probation, completion of benchmarks, or positive behavior exceeding expectations, at the discretion of the probation officer;
(D) At a child's first meeting with a probation officer after being adjudicated and disposed to a probation term, the probation officer shall provide written and oral notification to the child regarding the graduated sanctions and incentives system to ensure the child is aware of the sanctions and incentives that may be imposed or rewarded;
(E) When issuing a sanction or incentive, the probation officer shall provide written notice to the child of the nature and date of the relevant behavior, the sanction or incentive imposed or rewarded, and, in the case of sanctions, any applicable time period in which the sanction will be in effect or by which corrective behavior must be taken. The probation officer shall provide this information to the court at the next regularly scheduled review hearing and inform the court of the child's response to the sanction or incentive; and
§571-B Earned discharge from probation; reporting requirements. (a) A child placed on probation pursuant to section 571-48(1)(A) shall be eligible to receive earned discharge credits to reduce the length of the probation term. Earned discharge credits shall reduce the term of probation by thirty days for each calendar month of compliance with the rules and conditions of probation.
(b) A child is deemed to be compliant with the rules and conditions of probation, and shall be awarded earned discharge credits for the month, if there was no violation of rules and conditions of probation that month at a level that would warrant the filing of a petition or violation report. The court, at the request of the probation officer or on its own motion, may award discharge credits to children who have demonstrated substantial compliance with the rules and conditions of probation.
§571-C Statewide juvenile justice interdepartmental cluster; local juvenile justice interdepartmental cluster; high-need youth services coordination. (a) There is established a statewide juvenile justice interdepartmental cluster to provide coordinated services, as defined in section 571-2, to certain children under the jurisdiction of the family court, and to provide an avenue for regular collaboration between the judiciary and the child and adolescent mental health division of the department of health.
(b) The statewide cluster shall be composed of representatives from the major youth-serving agencies with statewide authority and responsibility. The statewide cluster shall include, in addition to the judiciary, designees from the department of education, the department of health, and the office of youth services. At the discretion of the representatives in the statewide cluster, community service providers may be included as regular members.
The judiciary shall staff the statewide cluster and identify a place where development and management of coordinated services may be carried out on a regular basis.
The statewide cluster may establish local juvenile justice interdepartmental clusters that shall have the ability to refer individual cases or issues to the statewide cluster for review and recommendation.
The statewide cluster shall establish written policies and procedures for itself and any local juvenile justice interdepartmental clusters.
(c) Family courts may recommend youth for consideration by the statewide cluster based on the results of a risk and needs assessment conducted pursuant to section 571-45 indicating that a youth is high-need and if the youth is actively involved with two or more youth-serving agencies.
(e) The statewide cluster shall annually report the number of cases referred to the cluster, the number of cases in which a coordinated service plan was established, and the outcome of the cases. This report shall be submitted to the board of family court judges and the Hawaii juvenile justice state advisory council.
§571-D Family court; annual report. Each deputy chief court administrator, or the administrator's designee, shall submit an annual report to the board of family court judges and the Hawaii juvenile justice state advisory council that includes:
(1) The number and per cent of cases ordered to administrative monitoring status;
(2) The number and per cent of cases ordered to administrative monitoring status that were subsequently closed without a protective supervision or probation term;
(3) The number and per cent of youth disposed to a probation term, and the outcome of the probation terms;
(4) The number and per cent of cases committed to a Hawaii youth correctional facility; the underlying offense or type of probation violation or revocation precipitating commitment; and the age, race, and gender of the child; and
(5) The number and per cent of cases returned to court supervision on a maintained probation term following a release from a Hawaii youth correctional facility."
(1) The results of a risk and needs assessment indicate the person is at a lower risk to reoffend;
(3) The person has demonstrated efforts toward rehabilitation;
SECTION 5. Section 352D-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§352D-4[]] Establishment; purpose. There is established within the department of human services for administrative purposes only the office of youth services. The office of youth services is established to provide services and programs for youth at risk under one umbrella agency in order to facilitate optimum service delivery, to prevent delinquency, and to reduce the incidence of recidivism among juveniles through the provision of prevention, rehabilitation, and treatment services. The office shall also be responsible for program planning and development, intake/assessment, oversight, as well as consultation, technical assistance, and staff training relating to the delivery of services.
The office shall provide a continuum of services as follows:
(1) An integrated intake/assessment and case management system;
(2) The necessary educational, vocational, social counseling and mental health services;
(3) Community-based shelter and residential facilities;
(4) Oversight of youth services; and
(5) Other programs which encourage the development of positive self-images and useful skills in such youth.
The executive director of the office of youth services shall submit annual reports to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session, reporting the services or programs funded pursuant to this section, the number of youth served by each service or program, and the results of the services or programs funded.
To this end, on July 1, 1991, this office shall assume the responsibilities for juvenile corrections functions, which were temporarily placed in the department of corrections pursuant to Act 338 of 1987. These functions shall include, but not be limited to, all responsibilities, under chapter 352, for the Hawaii youth correctional facilities."
SECTION 6. Section 571-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding nine new definitions to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:
"Case plan" means a plan designed to ensure that a child on probation receives services and programming to achieve rehabilitation, proper care, and case management. The case plan may include rules and conditions of probation, goals related to reducing criminogenic needs, and evidence-based practices, requirements, services, and opportunities to incorporate the family.
"Coordinated services" means treatment, education, care, services, and other resources provided by one or more distinct state or local agencies in a coordinated manner for a child who is involved with two or more youth-serving agencies.
"Home visit" means an announced or unannounced visit to a child's place of residence, conducted by the child's probation officer.
"Presumptive sanction" means a probation violation sanction determined by a probation officer from a range of graduated sanctions for the most common types of violation, adopted by the judiciary pursuant to section 571-A(4) and based upon consideration of factors including the nature and severity of the violation and the child's risk level.
"Risk and needs assessment" means a determination, based on an actuarial tool validated on Hawaii's juvenile justice system-involved population, of specific factors that predict a child's likelihood of recidivating and criminogenic factors that, when properly addressed, can reduce the likelihood of recidivating.
"Statewide cluster" means the statewide juvenile justice interdepartmental cluster as established under section 571-C."
SECTION 7. Section 571-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
The board shall discuss and shall attempt to achieve agreement upon general policies for the conduct of the family courts and forms for use in such courts. The board shall recommend, for adoption by the supreme court, rules of court governing procedure and practices in such courts. The board shall provide the guidelines and procedures necessary to implement a single statewide standardized tool to conduct risk and needs assessments and validation of the tool every five years. The board may, within the limitations of the facilities available to the family courts of the State, seek the consolidation of the statistical and other data on the work and services of such courts and research studies that may be made of the problems of families and children dealt with by such courts to the end that the treatment of children and families subject to the jurisdiction of such courts shall achieve the highest possible degree of uniformity throughout the State and to the further end that knowledge of treatment, methods and therapeutic practices be shared among such courts. The board may also formulate recommendations for remedial legislation. All actions by the board shall be subject to the regulatory supervision of the chief justice of the supreme court."
SECTION 8. Section 571-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
(c) Pursuant to subsection (a)(5), the deputy chief court administrator shall require each probation officer to complete training annually on juvenile justice or probation supervision best practices; provided that funding is available. The form and length of the training shall be determined by the deputy chief court administrator, or a designee, and at the discretion of the several deputy chief court administrators, training may be conducted jointly between judicial circuits, as defined in section 603-1."
SECTION 9. Section 571-31.2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
SECTION 10. Section 571-31.4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
(b) The deputy chief court administrators of each circuit shall together establish a framework that includes the criteria probation officers shall use to guide the exercise of discretion in providing informal adjustment.
SECTION 11. Section 571-31.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
SECTION 12. Section 571-31.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
SECTION 13. Section 571-41, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
"(d) In the disposition part of the hearing any relevant and material information, including [that] information contained in a written report, study, or examination, and the results of a risk and needs assessment of the child conducted pursuant to section 571-45, shall be admissible, and may be relied upon to the extent of its probative value; provided that the maker of the written report, study, or examination shall be subject to both direct and cross-examination upon demand and when the maker is reasonably available. The disposition shall be based only upon the admitted evidence, and findings adverse to the child as to disputed issues of fact shall be based upon a preponderance of such evidence."
SECTION 14. Section 571-45, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§571-45 [Investigation] Assessment and investigation prior to disposition[.]; suspension of delinquency proceedings; denial of services reporting. (a) Prior to disposition, the court shall conduct a risk and needs assessment, using the tool procured and validated pursuant to section 571-5, for each child concerning whom a petition has been filed pursuant to section 571-11(1) and (2).
(b) [Except where the requirement is waived by the judge] In addition to the risk and needs assessment, a social study and a report in writing shall be made in the case of a [minor] child concerning whom a petition has been filed under section 571‑11(1) and (2)[.], except where the judge waives the requirement to make a social study and a report in writing. The study shall be initiated upon the filing of a petition except in petitions filed under section 571-11(1) when it is ascertained that the [minor] child denies the allegations set forth in the petition. In such case the study shall proceed only after the court after hearing has made a finding as to the allegations of the petition.
(c) [Social] The results of the risk and needs assessment and any social studies required by this section shall be presented to and considered by the judge prior to making disposition[.] pursuant to section 571-41(d).
(d) If the results of the risk and needs assessment indicate a substance abuse or mental health need, the probation officer shall immediately refer the child to the department of health for an eligibility determination.
(e) The court, upon the motion of the child or on its own motion, may order the suspension of the delinquency proceedings, prior to adjudication, for a period of up to one year to obtain substance abuse or mental health treatment if the court finds:
(f) A probation officer referring a child to the department of health under this section shall report any subsequent denial of services to the administrator of the juvenile client services branch in each judicial circuit. The administrators of the juvenile client services branch shall submit an annual report compiling all such denials to the board of family court judges and the Hawaii juvenile justice state advisory council."
SECTION 15. Section 571-48, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§571-48 Decree, if informal adjustment or diversion to a private or community agency or program has not been effected. When a [minor] child is found by the court to come within section 571‑11, the court shall so decree and in its decree shall make a finding of the facts upon which the court exercises its jurisdiction over the [minor.] child. Upon the decree the court, by order duly entered, shall proceed as follows:
An order by the court placing a child on probation under this subparagraph shall include a definite term of probation stated in months or years, subject to extension or modification by the court pursuant to section 571-50. When conditions of probation include custody in a youth correctional facility, the custody shall be for a term not to exceed one year, after which time the [person] child shall be allowed to reside in the community subject to additional conditions as may be imposed by the court;
(C) The court may place a child on administrative monitoring, as defined in section 571-2, pending completion of conditions as may be imposed by the court, to preempt the need for disposition to a full probation term, and to afford the child the opportunity to demonstrate behavior adjustments. Upon completion of the court-ordered conditions, the court shall discharge the child pursuant to section 571-50. If a child fails to complete the court-ordered conditions, the court may extend or modify the order pursuant to section 571-50, or dispose the child to probation status under paragraph (1)(A); or
(12) The court may order any person adjudicated pursuant to section 571-11(2) to participate in community service; and
(13) The court may order the parents of an adjudicated [minor] child to make restitution of money or services to any victim, person, or party who has incurred a loss or damages as a result of the child's action."
SECTION 16. (a) There is established a juvenile justice oversight advisory council, deemed to be temporary and for a special purpose. The purpose of the advisory council is to oversee implementation and issue necessary reports to carry out the juvenile justice reforms in this Act.
(b) The duties of the advisory council are as follows:
(c) The advisory council shall be composed of seventeen members to be selected as follows, without regard to section 26‑34, Hawaii Revised Statutes:
(8) Two members from the department of education, appointed by the superintendent of education;
(9) One member from the department of human services, appointed by the director of human services;
(10) One juvenile justice stakeholder from the advocacy community, appointed by the executive director of the office of youth services;
(d) The advisory council shall receive copies of all data, reports, performance measures, and other evaluative materials submitted to any agency or branch of government under this Act and may request further data analysis or information from youth-serving agencies to carry out its duties. The advisory council may also request recidivism data from the attorney general.
(e) The judiciary shall provide staff support to the advisory council, at the request of the advisory council. The members shall serve without compensation.
(f) The advisory council shall cease to exist on the last day of the regular session of 2016, unless the advisory council is extended by concurrent resolution of the legislature.
SECTION 17. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $1,260,500 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2014-2015 for the necessary costs and expenses incurred in carrying out the purposes of this Act.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the office of youth services for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 18. This Act shall not be applied so as to impair any contract existing as of the effective date of this Act in a manner violative of either the Hawaii State Constitution or Article I, section 10, of the United States Constitution.
SECTION 19. In codifying the new sections added by section 3 of this Act, the revisor of statutes shall substitute appropriate section numbers for the letters used in designating the new sections in this Act.
SECTION 21. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2014, and apply to delinquent behavior committed on or after that date; provided that:
(1) Section 15 shall take effect on October 1, 2014, and apply to delinquent behavior committed on or after that date; and
(2) Sections 3 and 14 shall take effect on November 1, 2014, and apply to delinquent behavior committed on or after that date.
Juvenile Justice; Juvenile Probation; Juvenile Justice Oversight Advisory Council; Appropriation