Connecticut General Statutes 46b-121p – Training and monitoring deescalation efforts in secure and congregate care settings. Tracking of arrests and recidivism rates
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Not later than January 1, 2017, the Department of Children and Families and the Judicial Department shall:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 46b-121p
- Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
- Child: means any person under eighteen years of age who has not been legally emancipated, except that (A) for purposes of delinquency matters and proceedings, "child" means any person who (i) is at least ten years of age at the time of the alleged commission of a delinquent act and who is (I) under eighteen years of age and has not been legally emancipated, or (II) eighteen years of age or older and committed a delinquent act prior to attaining eighteen years of age, or (ii) is subsequent to attaining eighteen years of age, (I) violates any order of the Superior Court or any condition of probation ordered by the Superior Court with respect to a delinquency proceeding, or (II) wilfully fails to appear in response to a summons under §. See Connecticut General Statutes 46b-120
(1) Develop, provide and monitor the training of their staffs on policies and practices in secure and congregate care settings that promote deescalation and monitor and track successful and unsuccessful deescalation efforts employed in such settings;
(2) Collect baseline data on the number and rate of arrests in secure and congregate care settings based on a child‘s race and gender and whether the child is considered to be at-risk for recidivism; and
(3) Track and analyze the recidivism rates of all children who have involvement with the juvenile justice system.