Colorado § 27-90-105 Future juvenile detention facility needs

Colorado Statutes

§ 27-90-105 — Future juvenile detention facility needs

Colorado·Title 27 Behavioral·Art. Institutions - Department of Human Services

(1)(a) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that currently there are no juvenile detention facilities with commitment beds or locked detention beds in the southwest portion of Colorado and that the nearest such facility in the Grand Junction or Glenwood Springs area is as much as four hours away from some southwestern communities. As a result of this distance, authorities in the southwest region of the state often avoid detention even though such avoidance presents a public safety problem, and those juveniles who are taken to distant facilities lose the critical access to family members and local community agencies that would otherwise render their transitional return to the community less difficult.

(b)The general assembly further finds and declares that the juvenile

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(1) (a) The general
assembly hereby finds and declares that currently there are no juvenile detention
facilities with commitment beds or locked detention beds in the southwest portion
of Colorado and that the nearest such facility in the Grand Junction or Glenwood
Springs area is as much as four hours away from some southwestern communities.
As a result of this distance, authorities in the southwest region of the state often
avoid detention even though such avoidance presents a public safety problem, and
those juveniles who are taken to distant facilities lose the critical access to family
members and local community agencies that would otherwise render their
transitional return to the community less difficult.

(b) The general assembly further finds and declares that the juvenile
population in detention is expected to increase by seventy and nine hundredths
percent by the year 2002. In addition, the general assembly finds and declares that
the juvenile commitment population is expected to increase by forty-nine and nine-tenths percent by the year 2002. The general assembly finds and declares that the
growth patterns on the western slope of the state have led to a growth in
population of at-risk youth and increased crime and that the office of youth services
accordingly has experienced a shortfall of both detention and commitment beds in
the western part of the state.

(c) The general assembly therefore determines that it would be appropriate
to consider the need for the construction of a juvenile detention facility in
southwest Colorado.

(2) (a) The department is directed to assess the need for, and to determine
the community commitment to, a new multipurpose juvenile detention facility to be
constructed in La Plata county that would serve the following detention and
treatment needs of juveniles in the southwest portion of the state:

(I) Secure facility housing of juveniles who are detained on juvenile-related
charges; and

(II) Secure facility and medium secure facility housing of juveniles who are
committed to the division of youth services.

(b) In assessing the need for such a facility and the services to be rendered
at such a facility, the department shall evaluate privatization options.

(3) The department shall present its findings, conclusions, and
recommendations to the capital development committee of the general assembly
on or before November 1, 1996.

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Legislative History

Source: L. 2010: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 10-175), ch. 188, p. 760, � 2, effective April 29. L. 2017: (2)(a)(II) amended, (HB 17-1329), ch. 381, p. 1985, � 67, effective June 6.