Washington Administrative Code › Title 110 - Children, Youth, and Families, Department of › Chapter 110-700 - Juvenile rehabilitation administration-Practices and procedures › Section 110-700-0005 - What definitions apply to this chapter?

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The following definitions apply to this chapter:
"Assistant secretary"
means the assistant
				secretary of the juvenile rehabilitation administration.
"Community facility"
means a group care facility
				operated for the care of juveniles committed to the department under
				RCW
				  13.40.185. A county detention facility that
				houses juveniles committed to the department under
				RCW
				  13.40.185 pursuant to an interagency
				agreement with the department is not a community facility.
"Contractor"
means a department of social and
				health services (DSHS)/juvenile rehabilitation administration (JRA) contractor
				and all employees and all subcontractors of that contractor.
"Department"
means the department of social and
				health services.
"JRA"
means the juvenile rehabilitation
				administration, department of social and health services.
"JRA youth"
or
"juvenile"
means a
				juvenile offender under the jurisdiction of JRA or a youthful offender under
				the jurisdiction of the department of corrections who is placed in a JRA
				facility.
"Limited access"
means supervised access to a
				juvenile(s) that is the result of the person's regularly scheduled activities
				or work duties.
"Preponderance of the evidence"
means a
				determination by the secretary that the alleged sexual misconduct more likely
				than not occurred, or an admission of sexual misconduct has been made.
"Program administrator"
means institution
				superintendent, regional administrator, or their designees.
"Reasonable cause"
means a reason that would
				motivate a person of ordinary intelligence under the circumstances to believe
				that an act of sexual misconduct may have occurred.
"Regular access"
means unsupervised access to a
				juvenile(s), for more than a nominal amount of time, that is the result of the
				person's regularly scheduled activities or work duties.
"Secretary"
means the secretary of the department
				of social and health services.
"Sexual contact"
means any touching of the sexual
				or other intimate parts of a person done for the purpose of gratifying sexual
				desire of either party or a third party.
"Sexual intercourse"
has its ordinary meaning
				and:
(1) Occurs upon any penetration, however slight; and
(2) Also means any penetration of the vagina or anus however
				slight, by an object, when committed on one person by another, whether such
				persons are of the same or opposite sex, except when such penetration is
				accomplished for medically recognized treatment or diagnostic purposes;
				and
(3) Also means any act of sexual contact between persons
				involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another whether
				such persons are of the same or opposite sex.
"Suspend"
means to remove from unsupervised access
				to any JRA youth.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				    13.40.570. WSR 00-24-014, §
										388-700-0005,
				  filed 11/27/00, effective 12/28/00.