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| Budget Highlights |
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- Re-opening 145 close custody beds. Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility in Albany will re-open in January 2008 as a model gender-specific program for female youth offenders. Other beds will come on line in late 2008 and 2009.
- Funding an additional 73 community placements, beginning in April 2008. OYA will be working with partners to identify gaps in service and solicit requests for services.
- Restoring much of the cuts to juvenile crime prevention and diversion funds shared with counties. In addition, the budget creates a new competitive funding source for gang intervention services by counties. OYA is planning the process for those grants, and hopes to have money in communities by October 1.
- Increasing rates paid to our contracted service providers, to more closely reflect the true cost of providing those services, and support staff retention needed to continue delivering evidence-based services.
- Obtaining funding to continue education services to older youth in close custody.
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| Policy Highlights |
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- Accountability: Refined juvenile justice system audit requirements (HB 3420) and modified ethics standards for public officials (SB 10, HB 2595).
- Sex Offenders: Created a sex offender treatment certification board (HB 3233), removed registration requirements for some offenders (HB 2333), and created new crimes relating to on-line solicitation of minors.
- Crime Victims. Referred constitutional amendments to implement victims rights (SJR 49 and 50), and changes statutes governing agency actions (HB 2127).
- Abuse: Creates new training and reporting requirements regarding abuse of children (SB 379), developmentally disabled persons (SB 264), and animals (HB 1017).
- Government practices. Requires information disseminated to the public to meet plan language standards (HB 2702), provides increased protections for personal information held by public bodies (SB 583, SB 554).
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