Okla. Stat. tit. 10A, § 10A-2-7-305

youth service programs, shelters and community intervention centers.

A. The Office of Juvenile Affairs is authorized to enter into

contracts to establish or maintain community-based youth service

programs, shelters and community intervention centers out of local,

state and federal monies.

B. The Office of Juvenile Affairs shall take all necessary

steps to develop and implement a diversity of community services and

community-based residential care as needed to provide for adequate

and appropriate community-based care, treatment and rehabilitation

of children in the care, custody, and supervision of the Office of

Juvenile Affairs. Such community services and residential care

shall be consistent with the treatment needs of the child and the

protection of the public.

1. The Office of Juvenile Affairs shall, to the extent

reasonable and practicable, provide community-based services,

community residential care and community intervention centers to

children in the custody of the Office of Juvenile Affairs through

financial agreements, as authorized in Sections 2-7-303 and 2-7-304

of this title.

2. The Office of Juvenile Affairs shall establish procedures

for the letting of grants or contracts, and the conditions and

requirements for the receipt of such grants or contracts, for

community-based services, community residential care and community

intervention centers. A copy of such procedures shall be made

available to any member of the general public upon request.

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C. Any state agency letting grants or contracts for the

establishment of community residential care or treatment facilities

for children shall require, as a condition for receipt of such

grants or contracts, documented assurance from the agency or

organization establishing such facility that appropriate

arrangements have been made for providing the educational services

to which residents of the facility are entitled pursuant to state

and federal law.

D. 1. The Office of Juvenile Affairs shall certify community

intervention centers that are established by one or more

municipalities or one or more counties or juvenile bureaus pursuant

to rules promulgated by the Board of Juvenile Affairs. The

municipality, county or juvenile bureau may enter into contracts or

subcontracts with one or more service providers. The service

provider, whether a municipality, county or other entity, must have

access to the management information system provided for in Section

2-7-308 of this title and must employ qualified staff, as determined

by the Office of Juvenile Affairs.

2. The community intervention center shall serve as a short-

term reception facility to receive and hold juveniles who have been

taken into custody by law enforcement agencies for the alleged

violation of a municipal ordinance or state law or who are alleged

to be in need of supervision and for whom detention is inappropriate

or unavailable. The community intervention center may receive and

hold juveniles for whom detention is appropriate and available

pending transportation by law enforcement to a detention facility;

provided, custody by law enforcement shall not be relinquished to

the community intervention center until detention eligibility and

bed availability are determined by the designated detention screener

and an order for detention is issued. The community intervention

center may be a secure facility. Juveniles held in the community

intervention facility shall not be isolated from common areas other

than for short-term protective holding for combative or self-

destructive behavior, as defined by the Office of Juvenile Affairs.

3. Juveniles shall not be held in a community intervention

center for more than twenty-four (24) hours.

4. The community intervention center shall perform the

following functions:

a. enter demographic information into the management
olated from common areas other

than for short-term protective holding for combative or self-

destructive behavior, as defined by the Office of Juvenile Affairs.

3. Juveniles shall not be held in a community intervention

center for more than twenty-four (24) hours.

4. The community intervention center shall perform the

following functions:

a. enter demographic information into the management

information system provided for in Section 2-7-308 of

this title,

b. immediately notify the parents or parent, guardian, or

other person legally responsible for the juvenile's

care, or if such legally responsible person is

unavailable the adult with whom the juvenile resides,

that the juvenile has been taken into custody and to

pick up the juvenile,

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c. hold juveniles until they can be released to a parent,

guardian, or other responsible adult or until a

temporary placement can be secured, but in no event

for longer than twenty-four (24) hours, and

d. ensure that a written promise is executed by the

parent, guardian or other responsible adult to bring

the child to court at any time if a petition is to be

filed.

5. The community intervention center may perform the following

functions:

a. gather information to determine if the juvenile is in

need of immediate medical attention,

b. conduct an initial assessment pursuant to rules

promulgated by the Board. Such initial assessment may

be given without parental consent if the juvenile

agrees to participate in the assessment, and

c. conduct an assessment pursuant to a Problem Behavior

Inventory or a Mental Status Checklist or an

equivalent assessment instrument authorized by rules

promulgated by the Board, if written permission to do

so is obtained from the parent, guardian or other

person legally responsible for the care of the

juvenile. Such person and the juvenile may review the

assessment instrument prior to the assessment process,

must be informed that participation in the assessment

is voluntary and that refusal to participate shall not

result in any penalty, and must sign a written

acknowledgment that they were given an opportunity to

review the assessment instrument. The assessment

shall be used to develop recommendations to correct

the behavior of the juvenile, to divert the

progression of the juvenile into the juvenile justice

system, to determine if the juvenile is in need of

nonemergency medical treatment, and to determine if

the juvenile is the victim of violence. Information

derived from the assessment shall not be made

available to prosecutors or the court prior to

adjudication of the alleged offense, and shall not be

used in any phase of prosecution but may be used by

the court following adjudication for the dispositional

order and may be used for referrals to social

services.

6. A juvenile alleged to have committed an offense which would

be a felony if committed by an adult may be fingerprinted at a

community intervention center. No other juveniles shall be

fingerprinted at community intervention centers.

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7. Community intervention centers shall be certified pursuant

to standards established by the Office of Juvenile Affairs and rules

promulgated by the Board.