The objectives of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Community Justice Assistance Division (TDCJ CJAD) standards are to:

1. (1) make community supervision and corrections available to every judicial district in Texas;
2. (2) continue community supervision and corrections as a viable criminal justice sanction;
3. (3) assist each community supervision and corrections department (CSCD) in providing protection to the community and rehabilitation services for the offender;
4. (4) provide technical assistance in the establishment, improvement, and expansion of community-based programs;
5. (5) coordinate information and services available from federal, state, and local resources;
6. (6) establish minimum uniform community supervision and corrections administration standards;
7. (7) establish a statewide statistical information service;
8. (8) enhance the professional knowledge and skills of CSCD personnel by providing statewide and regional education and training, and by providing assistance for in-service training with the departments;
9. (9) establish an ongoing assessment and evaluation of community supervision and community-based correctional methods and systems; and
10. (10) establish regionally based programs serving two or more jurisdictions where such programs address similar offender profiles.

Source Note:The provisions of this §163.3 adopted to be effective March 1, 1993, 18 TexReg 944; amended to be effective August 16, 1995, 20 TexReg 5799; amended to be effective October 13, 1997, 22 TexReg 9896; amended to be effective June 20, 2002, 27 TexReg 5220; amended to be effective September 13, 2018, 43 TexReg 5809.