New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY › Chapter 100 - CLASSIFICATION ASSIGNMENT PROCESS FOR JUVENILES › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 13:100-1.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Board" means the New Jersey State Parole Board.
"Classification Committee" means a group of Commission staff members that have been designated to make decisions related to the assignment or reassignment of juveniles to Commission facilities and to programs and activities within Commission facilities.
"Commission" means the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission.
"Director of Operations" means the Commission staff member, by whatever name or title, charged with oversight and management responsibilities for the overall operation and supervision of the Commission's secure and non-secure facilities.
"Executive Director" means the Executive Director of the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission.
"Facility" means any facility operated by or contracted with the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission which houses juveniles.
"Initial Classification Custody Document (ICCD)" means the instrument used to guide the selection of a custody level for all newly committed juveniles. The ICCD is a scale to assess the severity of a juvenile's current and prior record, and the juvenile's cooperation with past correctional interventions. The instrument is used as an aid in determining placement.
"Initial Classification Custody Document Score" means the numerical value derived from the Initial Classification Custody Document.
"Judicial restriction date" means the date determined under the provisions of 2A:4A-44 to be either one-third of a juveniles imposed sentence, in the case of an adjudication for conduct that if committed by an adult would be a crime of the first, second, or third degree, or one-fourth of such sentence, in the case of an adjudication for conduct related to all other crimes, in both cases, as calculated going forward from the original date of sentence and as may be reduced by any applicable credits.
"Juvenile" means both a juvenile who has been adjudicated delinquent and sentenced to a term of incarceration to be served under the custody of the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission, and a juvenile who has been convicted of an offense subject to waiver under the provisions of
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.1 and sentenced to serve a custodial sentence in a Commission facility, and who is residing in a Commission facility.
"Juvenile parolee" means an adjudicated delinquent who has been released from a Commission facility on parole, and/or post-incarceration supervision, and who is subject to the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Parole Board.
" Non-secure facility" means a Commission or Commission-contracted community program that does not employ custody officers and whose security is provided by civilian staff.
"Operating agent" means any person or other entity under contract with the Commission to provide medical and/or mental health services to juveniles.
"Parole contract agreement" means the agreement provided for by P.L. 2009, c. 330 (N.J.S.A. 30:4-123.6 7) between the Commission, the New Jersey State Parole Board, and a juvenile or juvenile parolee that, if the terms of which are fulfilled by the juvenile or juvenile parolee, would result in a specified reduction of the juvenile parolees parole term or the juveniles primary parole eligibility date.
"Qualified mental health care professional" means an employee of the Commission or of an operating agent who is a licensed psychiatrist or psychologist, or other professional who by virtue of education, credentials, and experience in the provision of mental health assessment and counseling procedures is permitted by law to provide mental health services.
"Reception and Assessment Facility (RAF)" means a secure facility to which newly admitted juveniles are assigned pending classification and placement within the Commission.
"Reclassification and Custody Document (RCCD)" means the instrument used to review each juvenile's adjustment to the initial classification assignment, and to subsequent reclassification assignments, to determine whether movement to a new custody level is warranted.
"Reclassification Score" means the numeric value derived from an objective classification scoring instrument (the RCCD) to evaluate a juvenile's adjustment subsequent to initial classification to determine custody level and assignment.
"Secure facility" means any New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission facility which houses juveniles and employs custody personnel (52:17B-174 ) to provide security.
"Superintendent" means the chief executive officer of any Commission facility, which houses juveniles.