Court Opinion

ID: 9781983
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 17:47:33.217831+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:34:44.042754
License: Public Domain

GOLDEN, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. DFS should only be responsible for payment of electronic monitoring services when ordered by a juvenile court or required by the CHINS statutory framework. In this case, well before the juvenile court acquired jurisdiction over NG pursuant to CHINS, the municipal court had jurisdiction and ordered the electronic monitoring device. At that time only the district attorney and the minor through her parent were parties to this arrangement, and when an order results from this type of arrangement, payment for the device is through the municipal court. Although it has the inherent authority to do so when necessary, after it acquired jurisdiction, the juvenile court took no action indicating the monitoring services were required, and did not order electronic monitoring services nor approve the services as part of a consent decree. When the juvenile court does not issue such an order, and the services are provided by the order of a municipal court, the county is required to pay for the services, not DFS. We should not require DFS pay for juvenile services that have not resulted from a juvenile court order, and I, therefore, respectfully dissent.