(a) The juvenile corrections advisory boards established pursuant to K.S.A. 75-7044, and amendments thereto, shall annually consider the availability of:
- (1) Treatment programs;
- (2) programs creating alternatives to incarceration for juvenile offenders;
- (3) mental health treatment; and
- (4) the development of risk assessment tools, if they do not currently exist, for use in determining pretrial release and probation supervision levels.
- (b) The juvenile corrections advisory boards shall report to the Kansas department of corrections and the Kansas juvenile justice oversight committee by October 1 of each year detailing the costs of programs needed in the judicial district the juvenile corrections advisory board represents to reduce the out-of-home placement of juvenile offenders and improve the rate of recidivism of juvenile offenders in such judicial district.
L. 2016, ch. 46, § 16; July 1.