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MS Code § 43-21-753 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 21 - Youth Court|Teen Court Pilot Program Act|§ 43-21-753. Establishment; teen court program

 The youth court of any county in the state may establish a teen court program for the diversion of certain offenders who have waived all right of confidentiality and privilege against self-incrimination. The youth court of Rankin County may extend its teen court program within the city limits of Pearl. The offenders eligible to participate shall be those offenders who in the discretion of the youth court are suitable and compulsory-school-age children who have come into the jurisdiction of the youth court as a result of not attending school. The teen court shall be a preventive program for juveniles comprised of youth who are not less than thirteen (13) nor more than seventeen (17) years of age, which students shall serve as prosecutor, defense counsel, bailiff, court clerk and jurors. The program is to administer the "sentencing" or disposition phase of the proceedings against offenders who elect to participate, shall be under the guidance of the local youth court, and shall be approved by the local youth court. The youth court judge, or his designee who is a licensed attorney, shall preside. The teen court is authorized to require eligible offenders who choose to go to teen court in lieu of youth court to perform up to one hundred twelve (112) hours of community service, require offenders to make a personal apology to a victim, require offenders to submit a research paper on any relevant subject, attend counseling and make restitution or any other disposition authorized by the youth court. The youth court shall establish rules and regulations, including sentencing guidelines, for the operation of a teen court. The teen court is authorized to accept monies from any available public or private source, including public or private donations, grants, gifts and appropriated funds for funding expenses of operating the court.   Teen court may be held at whatever location the youth court selects at whatever time or times. Eligible offenders shall be only those children who agree to participate in the teen court and to abide by the teen court's rulings, whose parents or legal guardian shall also so agree, and who are otherwise qualified to participate.   The youth court judge may require an offender who elects to participate in the teen court to pay a fee not to exceed Five Dollars ($5.00); any such fees shall be used in administering this article, and the fee shall not be refunded, regardless of whether the child successfully completes the teen court program.
MS Code § 43-21-755 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 21 - Youth Court|Teen Court Pilot Program Act|§ 43-21-755. Instructional time

 Any school participating in the Teen Court Program established by this article shall be allowed to credit the time of teachers and students spent in participating in teen court as instructional time.
MS Code § 43-21-901 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 21 - Youth Court|Mississippi Juvenile Detention Facilities Licensing Act|§ 43-21-901. Short title

 Sections 43-21-901 through 43-21-915 and Section 43-21-207 shall be cited as the "Mississippi Juvenile Detention Facilities Licensing Act."
MS Code § 43-21-903 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 21 - Youth Court|Mississippi Juvenile Detention Facilities Licensing Act|§ 43-21-903. Purpose

 The purpose of Sections 43-21-901 through 43-21-915 is to protect and promote the health and safety of the children who are detained in juvenile detention centers in this state by providing for the licensing of juvenile detention facilities to assure that certain minimum standards are maintained.
MS Code § 43-21-905 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 21 - Youth Court|Mississippi Juvenile Detention Facilities Licensing Act|§ 43-21-905. Definitions

 As used in Sections 43-21-901 through 43-21-915, the following words shall have the following meanings:   "Facility administrator" means the principal official of the facility.   "Facility staff" means all employees of the facility who are under the supervision of the facility administrator.   "Juvenile detention facility" and "facility" are synonymous and each means a secure facility that house children who are charged with a delinquent act as defined in Section 43-21-105(j).   "Licensing agency" means the Juvenile Facilities Monitoring Unit of the Department of Public Safety.
MS Code § 43-21-907 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 21 - Youth Court|Mississippi Juvenile Detention Facilities Licensing Act|§ 43-21-907. Licensing agencies; powers and duties

  The licensing agency shall have the following powers and duties, in addition to the other duties prescribed by law:   To adopt the licensing standards set forth by the Juvenile Detention and Alternatives Taskforce's 2014 report;   To promulgate future rules and regulations concerning the licensing and regulation of juvenile detention facilities;   To issue, deny, suspend, revoke, restrict, or otherwise take disciplinary action against juvenile detention facilities;   To provide the training required by the rules and regulations promulgated by the licensing agency to all facility administrators and facility staff; and   To have such other powers as may be required to carry out the provisions of Sections 43-21-901 through 43-21-915.     The licensing agency shall require a criminal records background check and a child abuse registry check for all facility administrators and facility staff of a juvenile detention facility. The Department of Human Services has the authority to disclose to the licensing agency any potential applicant whose name is listed on the Child Abuse Central Registry or has a pending administrative review. That information shall remain confidential.   The licensing agency shall have the authority to exclude individuals or entities for prospective or current employment on the basis of a particular crime or crimes or a substantiated finding of child abuse or neglect.   Information in the possession of the licensing agency concerning the license of a juvenile detention facility may be disclosed to the public, but the information shall not be disclosed in a manner that would identify children detained in the facility. Nothing in this section affects the agency's authority to release findings of investigations into allegations of abuse under either Section 43-21-353(8) or Section 43-21-257.   The Mississippi Department of Education is responsible for promulgating rules and regulations related to the education of all children housed in a juvenile detention facility. The Mississippi Department of Education must conduct inspections of the facility's educational services at least annually or more often as deemed necessary. After each inspection, the department must provide the licensing agency with its determination of the facility's compliance with the education provisions. The licensing agency shall use the information in its determination of the facility's eligibility for licensure.
MS Code § 43-21-909 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 21 - Youth Court|Mississippi Juvenile Detention Facilities Licensing Act|§ 43-21-909. Identification of existence of issues that might prevent licensure; license required to own, operate and maintain juvenile detention facility

 Beginning October 1, 2016, the licensing agency shall conduct mock reviews of all juvenile detention facilities and determine what, if any, issues exist that may prevent licensure pursuant to the adopted rules and regulations. From and after October 1, 2017, no county or state entity shall establish, own, operate, and maintain a juvenile detention facility without a license issued under Sections 43-21-901 through 43-21-915.
MS Code § 43-21-911 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 21 - Youth Court|Mississippi Juvenile Detention Facilities Licensing Act|§ 43-21-911. Biennial renewal of license

 A license issued under Sections 43-21-901 through 43-21-915 must be renewed every two (2) years.
MS Code § 43-21-913 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 21 - Youth Court|Mississippi Juvenile Detention Facilities Licensing Act|§ 43-21-913. Compliance inspections by licensing agency

 The licensing agency shall make inspections to determine ongoing compliance with the laws and regulations governing the licensure of juvenile detention facilities. Inspections shall be made at least twice a year, but additional inspections may be made as often as deemed necessary by the licensing agency. The licensing agency is not required to provide any notice to the facility before making an inspection.
MS Code § 43-21-915 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 21 - Youth Court|Mississippi Juvenile Detention Facilities Licensing Act|§ 43-21-915. Denial, refusal to renew, suspension, revocation or restriction of license

  The licensing agency may deny or refuse to renew a license for any of the reasons set forth in subsection (3) of this section.   Before the licensing agency may deny or refuse to renew a license, the county or contractor operating the juvenile detention facility is entitled to a hearing before the director of the licensing agency in order to show cause why the license should not be denied or should be renewed.   The licensing agency may suspend, revoke, or restrict the license of any juvenile detention center upon one or more of the following grounds:   Fraud, misrepresentation or concealment of material facts;   Violation of any of the provisions of Sections 43-21-901 through 43-21-915 or any of the regulations governing the licensing and regulation of juvenile detention facilities promulgated by the licensing agency;   Any conduct, or failure to act that is found or determined by the licensing agency to threaten the health and safety of children at the facility;   Failure of a juvenile detention facility to conduct background checks as required under Section 43-21-907.   Information that is received by the licensing agency as a result of the criminal records background check and the child abuse registry check on all facility administrators and facility staff under Section 43-21-907.     The licensing agency shall develop rules and regulations related to the development and implementation of corrective action plans to address violations at facilities before a revocation, suspension, or restriction of the facility's license.   Before the licensing agency may suspend, revoke or restrict the license of a facility, the county or contractor affected by that decision is entitled to a hearing before the director of the licensing agency in which it may show cause why the license should not be suspended, revoked, or restricted.   A juvenile detention facility that disagrees with or is aggrieved by the licensing agency in regard to the denial, refusal to renew, or the suspension, revocation, or restriction of the license for the juvenile detention facility may appeal to the chancery court of the county in which the facility is located. The appeal shall be filed no later than thirty (30) days after the licensee receives written notice of the final administrative action by the licensing agency.
MS Code § 43-27-2 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 27 - Department of Youth Services|In General|§ 43-27-2. Department of Human Services to be Department of Youth Services

 The Department of Human Services shall be the Department of Youth Services and shall retain all powers and duties granted by law to the Department of Youth Services, and wherever the term "Department of Youth Services" appears in any law the same shall mean the Department of Human Services. The executive director of the department may assign to appropriate divisions such powers and duties as deemed appropriate to carry out the functions of the department. The executive director of the department may assign such powers and duties as deemed appropriate to carry out the functions of the department.
MS Code § 43-27-8 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 27 - Department of Youth Services|In General|§ 43-27-8. Duties and responsibilities of Department of Human Services

 The Department of Human Services, shall administer the following duties and responsibilities:   To implement and administer laws and policy relating to youth services and coordinate the efforts of the department with those of the federal government and other state departments and agencies, county governments, municipal governments and private agencies concerned with providing youth services.   To establish standards, provide technical assistance and exercise the requisite supervision as it relates to youth service programs over all state-supported juvenile correctional facilities.   To promulgate and publish such rules, regulations and policies of the department as are needed for the efficient government and maintenance of all facilities and programs in accord, insofar as possible, with currently accepted standards of juvenile care and treatment.
MS Code § 43-27-10 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 27 - Department of Youth Services|In General|§ 43-27-10. Powers of Department of Human Services

  The Mississippi Department of Human Services shall exercise executive and administrative supervision over all state-owned facilities used for the detention, training, care, treatment and aftercare supervision of delinquent children properly committed to or confined in said facilities by a court on account of such delinquency; provided, however, such executive and administrative supervision under state-owned facilities shall not extend to any institutions and facilities for which executive and administrative supervision has been provided otherwise by law through other agencies.   Such facilities shall include, but not be limited to, the Oakley Training School, which is now the Oakley Youth Development Center, created by Chapter 205, Laws of 1942, and those facilities authorized by Chapter 652, Laws of 1994.   The department shall have the power as a corporate body to receive, hold and use personal, real and mixed property donated to them or property acquired under Section 43-27-35, and shall have such other corporate authority as shall now or hereafter be necessary for the operation of any such facility. The department shall be responsible for the planning, development and coordination of a statewide, comprehensive youth services program designed to train and rehabilitate children in order to prevent, control and retard juvenile delinquency.   The department is authorized to develop and implement diversified public, private, or contractual programs and facilities to promote, enhance, provide and assure the opportunities for the successful care, training and treatment of delinquent children properly committed to or confined in any facility under its control. Such programs and facilities may include, but not be limited to, training schools, foster homes, halfway houses, forestry camps, regional assessment, classification and diagnostic centers, detention centers, group homes, regional and community-based juvenile intensive residential treatment facilities, specialized and therapeutic programs and facilities, and other state and local community-based programs and facilities.   The department is authorized to acquire whatever hazard, casualty or workers' compensation insurance is necessary for any property, real or personal, owned, leased or rented by the department or for any employees or personnel hired by the department and may acquire professional liability insurance on all employees as deemed necessary and proper by the department. All premiums due and payable on account thereof shall be paid out of the funds of the department.
MS Code § 43-27-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 27 - Department of Youth Services|In General|§ 43-27-11. Control and management by Department of Human Services; funds

 The Mississippi Department of Human Services shall succeed to the exclusive control of all records, books, papers, equipment and supplies, and all lands, buildings and other real and personal property now or hereafter belonging to or assigned to the use and benefit or under the control of the Oakley Youth Development Center, and shall have the exercise and control of the use, distribution and disbursement of all funds, appropriations and taxes now or hereafter in possession, levied, collected or received or appropriated for the use, benefit, support and maintenance of these two (2) institutions, and the department shall have general supervision of all the affairs of the two (2) institutions herein named, and the care and conduct of all buildings and grounds, business methods and arrangements of accounts and records, the organization of the administrative plans of each institution, and all other matters incident to the proper functioning of the institutions. The department shall have full authority over the operation of any and all farms at each of said institutions and over the distribution of agricultural, dairy, livestock and any and all other products therefrom and over all funds received from the sale of hogs and livestock. All sums realized from the sale of products manufactured and fabricated in the shops of the vocational departments of such institutions shall be placed in the revolving fund of the respective institutions in which said products were manufactured, fabricated and sold.   The department shall be authorized to lease the lands for oil, gas and mineral exploration, and for such other purposes as the department deems to be appropriate, on such terms and conditions as the department and lessee agree. The department may contract with the State Forestry Commission for the proper management of forest lands and the sale of timber, and the department is expressly authorized to sell timber and forestry products. The department is further authorized to expend the net proceeds from incomes from all leases and timber sales exclusively for the instructional purposes or operational expenses, or both, at the two (2) institutions under its jurisdiction.   The granting of any leases for oil, gas and mineral exploration shall be on a public bid basis as prescribed by law.
MS Code § 43-27-12 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 27 - Department of Youth Services|In General|§ 43-27-12. Department of Youth Services to have exclusive care of children committed to its facilities

 The Department of Youth Services shall have exclusive supervisory care, custody and active control of all children properly committed to or confined in its facilities and included in its programs and shall have control of the grounds, buildings and other facilities and properties of said facilities and programs.
MS Code § 43-27-14 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 27 - Department of Youth Services|In General|§ 43-27-14. Department of Youth Services authorized to accept federal and other funds, attorney general is legal representative of department

 The Department of Youth Services shall have the authority to accept any allotments of federal funds and commodities and shall manage and dispose of them in whatever manner may be required by federal law, and may take advantage of any federal programs, grants-in-aid, or other public or private assistance which may be offered or available which will accomplish or further the objectives of the department. Except as otherwise authorized in Section 7-5-39, the Attorney General shall be the legal representative of the department.
MS Code § 43-27-16 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 27 - Department of Youth Services|In General|§ 43-27-16. Furnishing of information, data, aid and assistance by state agencies, departments and the like

 The Department of Youth Services is authorized to request from any and all existing agencies, departments, divisions, officers, employees, boards, bureaus, commissions and institutions of the State of Mississippi, or any political subdivision thereof, information, data and assistance as will enable the department to fulfill its duties hereunder, and all such agencies, departments, divisions, officers, employees, boards, bureaus, commissions and institutions of the State of Mississippi and its political subdivisions are hereby directed to cooperate with the department and render such information, data, aid and assistance as may be requested by the department.
MS Code § 43-27-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 27 - Department of Youth Services|In General|§ 43-27-17. Cooperation of other departments

 The Department of Human Services shall use the services and resources of the state departments of education and health, and of all other appropriate state departments, agencies or institutions, as will aid in carrying out the purposes of this chapter. It shall be the duty of all such state departments, agencies and institutions to make available such services and resources to the department.
MS Code § 43-27-18 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 27 - Department of Youth Services|In General|§ 43-27-18. Positions in Department of Youth Services to be included in state classification system

 All positions in the Department of Youth Services shall be included in the state classification system, but the department is encouraged to establish an incentive program to motivate workers who deal directly with the children to obtain master's degrees in the field of sociology, psychology or some other related field.
MS Code § 43-27-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 27 - Department of Youth Services|In General|§ 43-27-19. Records and reports

 The Department of Human Services shall keep in a suitable book a full and complete record of all of its actions under this chapter, which shall be open at all times to the inspection of the Governor and all persons whom he or either house of the Legislature may designate, and any member of the Legislature, to examine same.
MS Code § 43-27-22 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 27 - Department of Youth Services|In General|§ 43-27-22. Office of Juvenile Correctional Institutions

  Within the Department of Human Services there shall be an Office of Juvenile Correctional Institutions which shall be headed by a Director of Juvenile Institutions, who shall be appointed by the Director of the Division of Youth Services. The Director of Juvenile Institutions shall appoint the individual Division of Youth Services Institutional Administrators who, in turn, shall have full power to select and employ personnel necessary to operate the facility he directs, subject to the approval of the Director of the Division of Youth Services.   The Office of Juvenile Correctional Institutions shall have such duties as the Director of the Division of Youth Services shall assign to it including, but not limited to, the following:   Operation and maintenance of training schools and other facilities as may be needed to properly diagnose, care for, train, educate and rehabilitate children and youths who have been committed to or confined in the facilities or who are included in the programs of the facilities.   Fulfillment of the objectives of rehabilitation and reformation of the youths confined in the schools, being careful to employ no discipline, training or utilization of time and efforts of such youth that shall under any condition or in any way interfere with such objectives.   Grouping of the youths in the schools according to age, sex and disciplinary needs with respect to their housing, schooling, training, recreation and work, being careful to prevent injury to the morals or interference with the training and rehabilitation of the younger or correctable youths by those considered to be less amenable to discipline and rehabilitation.