1. A. The Office of Juvenile System Oversight shall have the responsibility of investigating and reporting misfeasance and malfeasance within the children and youth service system, inquiring into areas of concern, investigating complaints filed with the Office of Juvenile System Oversight, and monitoring the children and youth service system to ascertain compliance with established responsibilities.

   It shall be the duty of the Office of Juvenile System Oversight to conduct regular, periodic, but not less than semiannual, unannounced inspections of state-operated children's institutions and facilities and to review the reports of the inspections of the State Fire Marshal and the Department of Health and any agencies which accredit such institutions and facilities.

2. B. The Office of Juvenile System Oversight shall:

   1. 1. Have the authority to examine all records and budgets pertaining to the children and youth service system and shall have access to all facilities within the children and youth service system for the purpose of conducting site visits and speaking with the residents of such facilities;
   2. 2. Have the authority to subpoena witnesses and hold public hearings;
   3. 3. Issue reports to the Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma, any appropriate prosecutorial agency, the director of the agency under consideration; and such other persons as necessary and appropriate; and
   4. 4. Provide recommendations to the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth on or before May 1 of each year.

Laws 1982, HB 1468, c. 312, § 6, emerg. eff. July 1, 1982; Amended by Laws 1990, HB 1729, c. 288, § 7, eff. September 1, 1990; Amended by Laws 1998, HB 2802, c. 364, § 1, emerg. eff. June 8, 1998 (superseded document available).