1. A. The Department of Juvenile Justice is authorized to enter into agreements to establish or maintain community-based youth service programs, shelters and community intervention centers out of local, state and federal monies.

2. B. The Department shall take all necessary steps to develop and implement a diversity of community services and community residential care as needed to provide for adequate and appropriate community-based care, treatment and rehabilitation of children in the custody of the Department. Such community services and residential care shall be consistent with the treatment needs of the child and the protection of the public.

   1. 1. The Department shall, to the extent reasonable and practicable, provide community services, community residential care and community intervention centers to children in the custody of the Department through financial agreements, as authorized in Sections 7302-3.3 and 7302-3.4 of this title.
   2. 2. The Department shall establish procedures for the letting of grants or contracts, and the conditions and requirements for the receipt of such grants or contracts, for community-based services, community residential care and community intervention centers. A copy of such procedures shall be made available to any member of the general public upon request.
3. C. Any state agency letting grants or contracts for the establishment of community residential care or treatment facilities for children shall require, as a condition for receipt of such grants or contracts, documented assurance from the agency or organization establishing such facility that appropriate arrangements have been made for providing the educational services to which residents of the facility are entitled pursuant to state and federal law.
4. D. The Department shall implement a pilot program for establishment of community intervention centers. The centers shall be established pursuant to interlocal agreements between one or more municipalities, a service provider and the Office of Juvenile Affairs pursuant to rules promulgated by the Office. The program shall provide for selection of the provider by the municipality, with the approval by the Office of Juvenile Affairs. The provider must have access to the management information system provided for in Section 7302-3.8 of this title. The community intervention center shall perform at least one of the following functions: assessment, information gathering, processing, service as a center for law enforcement to bring children who have been taken into custody, and service as a facility for limited short-term holding for a period not to exceed twenty-four (24) hours, unless extended by a court of competent jurisdiction for a period not to exceed forty-eight (48) additional hours. Community intervention centers also may work with community-based organizations, neighborhoods, and municipal organizations to implement violence prevention programs and programs to reduce violence in the community, if this function is provided for in the interlocal agreement.

Laws 1976, SJR 56, p. 600, § 1, emerg. eff. March 16, 1976; Amended by Laws 1978, SB 606, c. 307, § 1, emerg. eff. May 10, 1978; Amended by Laws 1982, HB 1468, c. 312, § 12, emerg. eff. July 1, 1982; Amended by Laws 1984, SB 538, c. 182, § 3, emerg. eff. May 7, 1984; Amended by Laws 1989, HB 1378, c. 345, § 4, eff. October 1, 1989; Amended by Laws 1990, HB 2354, c. 302, § 12, eff. September 1, 1990; Amended by Laws 1995, HB 1978, c. 352, § 81, emerg. eff. July 1, 1995; Renumbered from 10 O.S. § 607 by Laws 1995, HB 1978, c. 352, § 199, emerg. eff. July 1, 1995; Amended by Laws 1996, HB 2692, c. 247, § 13, emerg. eff. July 1, 1996.