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

1. (1) to make community supervision and corrections available to every judicial district in Texas;
2. (2) to continue community supervision and corrections as a viable criminal justice sanction;
3. (3) to assist Community Supervision and Corrections Department (CSCDs) in providing protection to the community and rehabilitation services for the offender;
4. (4) to provide technical assistance in the establishment, improvement, and expansion of community-based programs;
5. (5) to coordinate information and services available from federal, state, and local resources;
6. (6) to establish minimum uniform community supervision and corrections administration standards;
7. (7) to establish a statewide statistical information service;
8. (8) to 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) to establish an ongoing assessment and evaluation of community supervision and community-based correctional methods and systems; and
10. (10) to 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.