New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 22 - COURTS › Chapter 510 - PAROLE › Part 100 - JUVENILE PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY BOARD › Section 22.510.100.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
In these definitions, all references to males are understood
				  to include females. As used in these regulations:
A.
"Administrative review"
means a review conducted by the director or designee.
B.
"Agenda"
means the list of
				juvenile offenders who are to be considered for supervised release at the
				department's regular release consideration meetings.
C.
"Board"
means the juvenile
				public safety advisory board whose members are appointed pursuant to the
				Juvenile Public Safety Advisory Board Act, 1978 NMSA Sections 32A-7A-1 to
				32A-7A-8.
D.
"Department"
means the New Mexico children, youth and families
				department.
E.
"Director"
means the administrative officer of the juvenile public
				safety advisory board appointed by the governor; the director shall employ
				other staff as necessary to carry out the administrative duties of the
				board.
F.
"Facility"
refers to a facility operated by or on behalf of CYFD's juvenile justice
				services for purposes of housing and providing care and rehabilitation for
				clients committed to the custody of CYFD.
G.
"Facility
release panel
				(panel)" is the departmental secretary-designated releasing authority that
				considers juveniles for supervised release.
H.
"Facility transition coordinator
				(FTC)"
means a department employee who works with the client and the
				client's multi-disciplinary team, juvenile probation officer, classification
				officer and regional transition coordinator to coordinate the client's care
				while in the facility and ensures that the required tasks of the client's
				supervised release or extension track are occurring in a timely
				manner.
I.
"Home
				study"
means the assessment conducted by the department of the living
				environment where the juvenile offender may reside during the term of
				supervised release; specific strengths and weaknesses of the living environment
				are identified through the home study process.
J.
"Juvenile offender"
means a
				child committed to the custody of the department pursuant to the Delinquency
				Act, 1978 NMSA Section 32A-2-1 through 32A-2-32; the term "juvenile offender"
				in this regulation includes those individuals who are committed as youthful
				offenders.
K.
"Quorum"
is a minimum number of members of a board who must be present
				to make decisions; for purposes of board participation in facility release
				panel meetings and hearings, quorum means at least one member of the
				board.
L.
"Release
				consideration meeting"
means a proceeding conducted by the panel for
				purposes of deciding whether to grant, deny, defer or revoke supervised
				release.
M.
"Release
				plan"
means the department's recommendation for the conditions the
				juvenile offender should be required to fulfill if released, and presents
				workable methods of dealing with the juvenile offender's problems and needs
				throughout the community intervention.
N.
"Release agreement"
means
				the conditions of supervised release as established by the panel. The juvenile
				is required to agree in writing to the conditions as a prerequisite to being
				placed on release status.
O.
"Secretary"
means the secretary of the children, youth and families
				department.
P.
"Structured
				decision making (SDM)"
means a system designed for use in case
				management of the juvenile population, and used by the department in the
				classification of committed juvenile offenders.
Q.
"Supervised release"
refers
				to the release of a juvenile, whose terms of commitment has not expired, from a
				facility for the care and rehabilitation of adjudicated delinquent children,
				with specified conditions to protect public safety and promote successful
				transition and reintegration into the community. A juvenile on supervised
				release is subject to monitoring by the department until the terms of
				commitment has expired, and may be returned to custody for violating conditions
				of release.
R.
"Supervised
				release plan"
means the department's recommendation for the conditions
				the juvenile offender should be required to fulfill if released and presents
				workable methods of dealing with the juvenile offender's problems and needs
				through community intervention.
S.
"Supervised release recommendation report"
is the report prepared
				by the FTC/designee to inform the panel of the juvenile's progress while
				committed and the juvenile's readiness for release through summaries of all the
				disciplines in the juvenile's plan of care and the plan for the juvenile if he
				or she is granted supervised release.