Colorado statute
C.R.S. § 19-2.5-1405 — Working group - allocation of beds.
Current through 2025 Regular Session
Part of Part 14: ADMINISTRATION, Colorado Revised Statutes.
Full text of C.R.S. § 19-2.5-1405
Statutory text current through the 2025 Regular Session. This is an officially sanctioned publication using the official text of the Colorado Revised Statutes; it is not the official statutes of the State of Colorado.
(1) The executive director of the department of human services and the state court administrator in the judicial department, or their designees, in consultation with the division of criminal justice of the department of public safety, the office of state planning and budgeting, the Colorado district attorneys' council, and law enforcement representatives, shall form a working group that has the following duties: (a) To allocate and reallocate, as necessary, a number of juvenile detention beds to each catchment area in the state created pursuant to section 19-2.5-1513, as limited by the number of juvenile beds established pursuant to section 19-2.5-1514. The working group may allocate or reallocate any portion of the detention beds allocated to catchment areas to the judicial districts within those catchment areas. Judicial districts shall not exceed the number of beds allocated to them except for circumstances provided for in subsection (1)(b) of this section. (b) To develop a mechanism for judicial districts to collaboratively use detention beds allocated to catchment areas but unallocated to judicial districts and a mechanism to loan detention beds to other judicial districts; and (c) To develop emergency release guidelines that must be used by each judicial district to prevent placement of a juvenile in a juvenile detention facility in excess of the total number of juvenile detention beds established pursuant to section 19-2.5-1514. (d) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2025).
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