CO Code § 19-2.5-1201 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 19 - Children's Code|Article 2.5 - The Colorado Juvenile Justice System|Part 12 - Juvenile Parole|§ 19-2.5-1201. Juvenile Parole Board - Creation - Membership - Authority - Rules

  There is created a juvenile parole board, referred to in this part 12 as the “board”. The board consists of nine members appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate. Any vacancy that occurs when the general assembly is not in session may be filled by the governor, and such member serves temporarily until confirmed at the next regular session of the general assembly.    All nine members are voting members. Of the nine members:   One member is from the department of human services;    One member is from the department of education;    One member is from the department of public safety;    One member is from the department of labor and employment; and    Five members are from the public at large and must not be employees of the state government. At least one of the members from the public at large must be a resident of the area west of the continental divide.       All members serve at the pleasure of the governor, and the governor shall designate one member of the board to act as chairperson.    The full board meets not less than once a month, and the presence of five members, at least two of whom are members described in subsection (2)(e) of this section, constitutes a quorum to transact official business of the full board.    All members of the board are reimbursed for expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their duties. In addition to the reimbursement of expenses, the five citizen board members shall receive a per diem of one hundred fifty dollars per full day and seventy-five dollars per half day spent transacting official business of the board.    The department of human services shall furnish clerical and other assistance for the board. A juvenile parole board administrator appointed by the executive director of the department of human services shall supervise such clerical and other assistance provided pursuant to this subsection (6).    The board may grant, deny, defer, suspend, revoke, or specify or modify the conditions of any parole for any juvenile committed to the department of human services pursuant to section 19-2.5-1103 or 19-2.5-1127 in a manner that is in the best interests of the juvenile and the public. In addition to any other conditions, the board may require, as a condition of parole, any adjudicated juvenile to attend school or an educational program or to work toward the attainment of a high school diploma or the successful completion of a high school equivalency examination, as that term is defined in section 22-33-102 (8.5); except that the board shall not require any such juvenile to attend a school from which the juvenile has been expelled without the prior approval of that school's local board of education. The board shall promulgate rules that establish criteria under which its parole decisions are made. The board has the duties and responsibilities specified in this part 12.     History. Source: L. 2021: Entire article added with relocations,(SB 21-059), ch. 136, p. 664, § 2, effective October 1.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former §§ 19-2-206 and 19-2-207 as they existed prior to 2021.