This chapter is promulgated under the authority of ss. 51.37 (9), 51.375 (3), 971.17 (3) (e), and 980.08 (6m), Stats., to provide rules for supervision in communities of persons who are committed to the department and placed under its control after being found not guilty by reason of mental illness or defect of having committed a crime or after being found to be sexually violent persons or who are otherwise sex offenders. Supervision is intended to provide for the public’s safety, promote social reintegration, reduce repetition of crime and carry out the statutory directives under s. 46.03 (1) and (5), Stats. The following goals and objectives are relevant for fulfillment of these purposes:

1. (1) To supervise and control offenders to the extent necessary to protect the public, staff and clients;
2. (2) To provide clients with opportunities for obtaining education, training, work experience, coping skills and other programs and services to enable them to live constructive lives;
3. (3) To provide access to community-based programs for persons on supervision for whom those programs are desirable and necessary;
4. (4) To establish necessary guidelines, procedures, and controls to maintain program, staff and fiscal accountability and to promote program efficiency and effectiveness;
5. (5) To cooperate with other public and private agencies in activities directed at preventing crime and mental illness and providing alternatives to institutionalization; and
6. (6) To protect the health and rights of all persons involved in the department’s programs and activities.

History

History: Cr. Register, July, 1992, No. 439, eff. 8-1-92; emerg. am. (intro.) eff. 10-1-94; am. (intro.), Register, April, 1995, No. 472, eff. 5-1-95; am. (1) (intro.), Register, May, 1999, No. 521, eff. 6-1-99; correction in (intro.) made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 7., Stats., Register December 2004 No. 588.