Connecticut General Statutes 45a-8c – Truancy clinic. Administration. Policies and procedures. Report
(a) The Probate Court Administrator may, within available appropriations, establish a truancy clinic within (1) any Regional Children’s Probate Court that serves a town designated as an alliance district pursuant to § 10-262u, or (2) any Probate Court that serves a town designated as an alliance district that is not served by a Regional Children’s Probate Court. The administrative judge of the Regional Children’s Probate Court or the probate judge, as the case may be, or the designee of such administrative judge or such probate judge, shall administer the truancy clinic for such administrative judge’s or such probate judge’s respective court.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 45a-8c
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Probate: Proving a will
- Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
(b) If the Probate Court Administrator establishes truancy clinics pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, the principal of any elementary or middle school located in a town designated as an alliance district, or the principal’s designee, may refer to a truancy clinic a parent or guardian with a child enrolled in such school who is a truant, as defined in § 10-198a, or at risk of becoming a truant. Upon receiving such referral, the truancy clinic shall prepare a citation and summons for the parent or guardian of the child to appear at the clinic. An attendance officer authorized pursuant to § 10-199, or a police officer authorized pursuant to § 10-200, shall deliver the citation and summons and a copy of the referral to the parent or guardian.
(c) The administrative judge of the Regional Children’s Probate Court that serves a town designated as an alliance district or the probate judge that serves a town designated as an alliance district, as the case may be, may refer any matter referred to a truancy clinic to a probate magistrate or attorney probate referee assigned by the Probate Court Administrator pursuant to § 45a-123a to hear the matter.
(d) The truancy clinics shall operate for the purpose of identifying and resolving the cause of a child’s truancy using nonpunitive procedures. After the initial appearance made pursuant to the summons described in subsection (b) of this section, the participation of a parent or guardian in the truancy clinic shall be voluntary. The truancy clinics shall establish protocols for clinic participation and shall establish programs and relationships with schools, individuals, public and private agencies, and other organizations to provide services and support for parents, guardians and children participating in the clinics.
(e) The Probate Court Administrator shall establish policies and procedures to implement the truancy clinics and measure the effectiveness of the truancy clinics.
(f) Not later than September 1, 2015, and annually thereafter, each administrative judge of a Regional Children’s Probate Court that serves a town designated as an alliance district in which a truancy clinic has been established and each probate judge that serves a town designated as an alliance district in which a truancy clinic has been established shall file a report with the Probate Court Administrator assessing the effectiveness of each truancy clinic in such administrative judge’s or such probate judge’s respective court.
(g) Not later than January 1, 2016, the Probate Court Administrator shall submit, in accordance with § 11-4a, a report assessing the effectiveness of the truancy clinics to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to the judiciary and education.