1. (a) Core services. All CSCDs shall provide the following core services:

   1. (1) Court services:

      1. (A) conduct pre/post-sentence investigations as ordered by the court and in accordance with law;
      2. (B) report violations to the court;
      3. (C) provide testimony as custodian of the record;
      4. (D) conduct assessments and complete reports mandated by law;
      5. (E) make recommendations to the court regarding conditions of supervision; and
      6. (F) maintain case files.

   2. (2) Basic supervision:

      1. (A) enforce conditions of community supervision;
      2. (B) perform case intake;
      3. (C) conduct assessments, reassessments, and supervision planning, and implement strategies to address identified offender risk and needs with the resources made available to jurisdictions;
      4. (D) provide contacts to offenders on direct community supervision per TDCJ-CJAD standards;
      5. (E) maintain case files;
      6. (F) develop and monitor community service restitution programs;
      7. (G) as ordered by the court, assess and, when needed, provide access to education, substance abuse and mental impairment services;
      8. (H) monitor employment and provide job and/or vocational services to employable offenders;
      9. (I) provide access to assessment and access to treatment services for sex offenders and violent offenders. Also, appropriate levels of supervision should be maintained for both types of offenders.

   3. (3) Administrative services. Provide adequate management and support service to the CSCD operation, commensurate with available resources, to include but not be limited to:

      1. (A) administrative support staff;
      2. (B) data processing support;
      3. (C) data control and evaluation support;
      4. (D) fiscal services support; and
      5. (E) training coordinators.
2. (b) Continuum of sanctions. All CSCD directors shall ensure the development and implementation of a continuum of sanctions to address the risk and needs of offenders as identified in the jurisdiction's community justice plan, subject to available resources and local policy.
3. (c) Local/regional planning. CSCD directors participating in regional programs and services shall work with the directors of CSCDs impacted by those regional efforts in the planning, development, and implementation of regional programs/services to address offender needs. Regional programs/services shall be designed to address regional needs as identified in each jurisdiction's community justice plans and as the more efficient economical response to specific offender issues for each of the participating jurisdictions.
4. (d) Community service restitution (CSR). CSCD directors shall maintain written agreements with governmental and/or nonprofit agencies and organizations to provide offenders opportunities to comply with court-ordered community service restitution according to the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 42.12, §16, CSR programs and referrals.

5. (e) Educational skill level. Utilizing a standardized educational screening instrument, the CSCD director shall ensure that all persons placed on community supervision, who are unable to document attainment of a high school diploma or GED, shall be screened to determine if they:

   1. (1) possess educational skills equal to or greater than the sixth grade level; and
   2. (2) possess the intellectual capacity or learning ability to achieve the sixth grade skills level. Programs which assist offenders in attaining the educational skill level of sixth grade and above shall be developed and/or made available to the courts for offender referral. CSCD directors may maintain written agreements with school and volunteer organizations to provide tutoring to teach reading to functionally illiterate offenders.
6. (f) Methods for measuring the success of community supervision and corrections programs. For purposes of Government Code §509.007(b), the method for measuring program completion is defined as the completion of all required components of the program, and/or an offender's release from the program that is not related to any non-compliant behavior; an inappropriate placement; or death. The method for measuring recidivism is defined as a rearrest for a new separate offense that is punishable by incarceration (i.e., Class B Misdemeanors and up). This definition does not include arrests for Motions To Revoke community supervision and bond forfeitures.
7. (g) Conflicts of interest. The CSCD director shall ensure that there is a written policy concerning conflicts of interest. The policy shall address the prohibition of possible conflicts of interest between the CSCD, and any other groups or individuals.

Source Note:The provisions of this §163.31 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.