2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 19 - CHILDREN'S CODE (§§ 19-1-101 — 19-7-315) › Article 2.5 - THE COLORADO JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM (§§ 19-2.5-101 — 19-2.5-1532) › Part 12 - JUVENILE PAROLE (§§ 19-2.5-1201 — 19-2.5-1206) › Section 19-2.5-1201 - [Effective 9/1/2024] Juvenile parole board - creation - membership - authority - rules

(1)
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. Members are appointed for terms of three years; except that the terms shall be staggered so that one-third of the membership of the board becomes vacant each year. There are no term limits for the members of the board. 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. The board is a
type 1
entity, as defined in section
24-1-105
.
(2)
All nine members are voting members. All members must be residents of the state of Colorado. Of the nine members:
(a)
One member is from the department of human services;
(b)
One member is from the department of education;
(c)
One member is from the department of public safety;
(d)
One member is from the department of labor and employment; and
(e)
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.
(3)
All members serve at the pleasure of the governor, and the governor shall designate one member of the board to act as chairperson.
(4)
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.
(5)
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 at-large 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.
(6)
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).
(7)
(a)
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.
(b)
Unless inconsistent with other conditions imposed by the board, the board shall allow a juvenile to have periodic meetings with the juvenile parole officer at reasonable times through a telephone call or audio-visual communication technology. Unless inconsistent with other conditions imposed by the board, in directing the juvenile to have periodic meetings with a juvenile parole officer at reasonable times, the juvenile parole officer shall schedule, in good faith, the meetings with the juvenile on parole at mutually agreeable times that do not conflict with the juvenile's essential obligations, including work, education, job training, dependent care, medical appointments, and other parole requirements.
Amended by 2024 Ch. 353,§ 7, eff. 9/1/2024.
Amended by 2022 Ch. 469, § 64, eff. 8/10/2022.
Amended by 2022 Ch. 2, § 31, eff. 2/25/2022.
Renumbered from C.R.S. §
19-2-206
and
19-2-207
and amended by 2021 Ch. 136, § 2, eff. 10/1/2021.
Amended by 2014 Ch. 102, § 6, eff. 4/7/2014.
L. 2021: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 21-059), ch. 664, p. 664, § 2, effective October 1.
This section is similar to former §§ 19-2-206 and 19-2-207 as they existed prior to 2021.
2024 Ch. 353, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).
2022 Ch. 469, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).
This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.