To amend sections 2151.312, 2151.355, 2151.38, 5139.01, 5139.04, 5139.05, 5139.06, 5139.07, 5139.08, 5139.18, 5139.20, 5139.32, 5139.35, 5139.38, and 5139.43 and to enact sections 5139.50 to 5139.56 of the Revised Code to create a Release Authority in the Department of Youth Services to grant releases to certain children committed to the Department, to establish a procedure for the judicial release of certain children in the Department's custody, and to establish an Office of Victims' Services in the Release Authority.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Sec. 2151.312. (A) A child alleged to be a delinquent child, an unruly child, or a juvenile traffic offender may be held only in the following places:

(1) A certified family foster home or a home approved by the court;

(2) A facility operated by a certified child welfare agency;

(3) A detention home or center for delinquent children which is under the direction or supervision of the court or other public authority or of a private agency and approved by the court;

(4) Any other suitable place designated by the court.

(B) Except as provided in division (C) of section 2151.311 or in division (C)(3)(2) of section 5139.06 and section 5120.162 of the Revised Code, a child shall not be held in a state correctional institution, county, multicounty, or municipal jail or workhouse, or other place where an adult convicted of crime, under arrest, or charged with crime is held. Unless the detention is pursuant to division (C) of section 2151.311 or pursuant to division (C)(3)(2) of section 5139.06 and section 5120.162 of the Revised Code, the official in charge of the institution, jail, workhouse, or other facility shall inform the court immediately when a child, who is or appears to be under the age of eighteen years, is received at the facility, and shall deliver him THE CHILD to the court upon request or transfer him THE CHILD to a detention facility designated by the court.

(C) If a case is transferred to another court for criminal prosecution pursuant to section 2151.26 of the Revised Code, the child may be transferred for detention pending the criminal prosecution in a jail or other facility in accordance with the law governing the detention of persons charged with crime. Any child so held shall be confined in a room totally separate by both sight and sound from all adult detainees. The child shall be supervised at all times during the detention.

(D) A child who is alleged to be a neglected, abused, or dependent child shall not be held in a state correctional institution, county, multicounty, or municipal jail, or other place where any adult convicted of crime, under arrest, or charged with crime is held. The alleged neglected, abused, or dependent child shall not be held in a detention home or a center for children who are alleged to be delinquent children.

Sec. 2151.355. (A) If a child is adjudicated a delinquent child, the court may make any of the following orders of disposition:

(1) Any order that is authorized by section 2151.353 of the Revised Code;

(2) Place the child on probation under any conditions that the court prescribes. If the child is adjudicated a delinquent child for violating section 2909.05, 2909.06, or 2909.07 of the Revised Code and if restitution is appropriate under the circumstances of the case, the court shall require the child to make restitution for the property damage caused by the child's violation as a condition of the child's probation. If the child is adjudicated a delinquent child because the child violated any other section of the Revised Code, the court may require the child as a condition of the child's probation to make restitution for the property damage caused by the child's violation and for the value of the property that was the subject of the violation the child committed if it would be a theft offense, as defined in division (K) of section 2913.01 of the Revised Code, if committed by an adult. The restitution may be in the form of a cash reimbursement paid in a lump sum or in installments, the performance of repair work to restore any damaged property to its original condition, the performance of a reasonable amount of labor for the victim approximately equal to the value of the property damage caused by the child's violation or to the value of the property that is the subject of the violation if it would be a theft offense if committed by an adult, the performance of community service or community work, any other form of restitution devised by the court, or any combination of the previously described forms of restitution.

If the child is adjudicated a delinquent child for violating a law of this state or the United States, or an ordinance or regulation of a political subdivision of this state, that would be a crime if committed by an adult or for violating division (A) of section 2923.211 of the Revised Code, the court, in addition to all other required or permissive conditions of probation that the court imposes upon the delinquent child pursuant to division (A)(2) of this section, shall require the child as a condition of the child's probation to abide by the law during the period of probation, including, but not limited to, complying with the provisions of Chapter 2923. of the Revised Code relating to the possession, sale, furnishing, transfer, disposition, purchase, acquisition, carrying, conveying, or use of, or other conduct involving a firearm or dangerous ordnance, as defined in section 2923.11 of the Revised Code.

(3) Commit the child to the temporary custody of any school, camp, institution, or other facility operated for the care of delinquent children by the county, by a district organized under section 2151.34 or 2151.65 of the Revised Code, or by a private agency or organization, within or without the state, that is authorized and qualified to provide the care, treatment, or placement required;

(4) If the child is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing an act that would be a felony of the third, fourth, or fifth degree if committed by an adult or for violating division (A) of section 2923.211 of the Revised Code, commit the child to the legal custody of the department of youth services for institutionalization for an indefinite term consisting of a minimum period of six months and a maximum period not to exceed the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age;

(5)(a) If the child is adjudicated a delinquent child for violating section 2903.03, 2905.01, 2909.02, or 2911.01 or division (A) of section 2903.04 of the Revised Code or for violating any provision of section 2907.02 of the Revised Code other than division (A)(1)(b) of that section when the sexual conduct or insertion involved was consensual and when the victim of the violation of division (A)(1)(b) of that section was older than the delinquent child, was the same age as the delinquent child, or was less than three years younger than the delinquent child, commit the child to the legal custody of the department of youth services for institutionalization in a secure facility for an indefinite term consisting of a minimum period of one to three years, as prescribed by the court, and a maximum period not to exceed the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age;

(b) If the child is adjudicated a delinquent child for violating section 2923.02 of the Revised Code and if the violation involves an attempt to commit a violation of section 2903.01 or 2903.02 of the Revised Code, commit the child to the legal custody of the department of youth services for institutionalization in a secure facility for an indefinite term consisting of a minimum period of six to seven years, as prescribed by the court, and a maximum period not to exceed the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age;

(c) If the child is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing an act that is not described in division (A)(5)(a) or (b), of this section and that would be a felony of the first or second degree if committed by an adult, commit the child to the legal custody of the department of youth services for institutionalization in a secure facility for an indefinite term consisting of a minimum period of one year and a maximum period not to exceed the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age;

(6) If the child is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a violation of section 2903.01 or 2903.02 of the Revised Code, commit the child to the legal custody of the department of youth services for institutionalization in a secure facility until the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age;

(7)(a) If the child is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing an act, other than a violation of section 2923.12 of the Revised Code, that would be a felony if committed by an adult and is committed to the legal custody of the department of youth services pursuant to division (A)(4), (5), or (6) of this section and if the court determines that the child, if the child was an adult, would be guilty of a specification of the type set forth in section 2941.141 , 2941.144, 2941.145, or 2941.146 of the Revised Code in relation to the act for which the child was adjudicated a delinquent child, commit the child to the legal custody of the department of youth services for institutionalization in a secure facility for the following period of time, subject to division (A)(7)(b) of this section:

(i) If the child would be guilty of a specification of the type set forth in section 2941.141 of the Revised Code, a period of one year;

(ii) If the child would be guilty of a specification of the type set forth in section 2941.144, 2941.145, or 2941.146 of the Revised Code, a period of three years.

(b) The court shall not commit a child to the legal custody of the department of youth services pursuant to division (A)(7)(a) of this section for a period of time that exceeds three years. The period of commitment imposed pursuant to division (A)(7)(a) of this section shall be in addition to, and shall be served consecutively with and prior to, a period of commitment ordered pursuant to division (A)(4), (5), or (6) of this section, provided that the total of all the periods of commitment shall not exceed the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age.

(8)(a) Impose a fine and costs in accordance with the schedule set forth in section 2151.3512 of the Revised Code;

(b) Require the child to make restitution for all or part of the property damage caused by the child's delinquent act and for all or part of the value of the property that was the subject of any delinquent act the child committed that would be a theft offense, as defined in division (K) of section 2913.01 of the Revised Code, if committed by an adult. If the court determines that the victim of the child's delinquent act was sixty-five years of age or older or permanently and totally disabled at the time of the commission of the act, the court, regardless of whether or not the child knew the age of the victim, shall consider that fact in favor of imposing restitution, but that fact shall not control the decision of the court. The restitution may be in the form of a cash reimbursement paid in a lump sum or in installments, the performance of repair work to restore any damaged property to its original condition, the performance of a reasonable amount of labor for the victim, the performance of community service or community work, any other form of restitution devised by the court, or any combination of the previously described forms of restitution.

(9) Suspend or revoke the driver's license or temporary instruction permit issued to the child or suspend or revoke the registration of all motor vehicles registered in the name of the child;

(10) If the child is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing an act that, if committed by an adult, would be a criminal offense that would qualify the adult as an eligible offender pursuant to division (A)(3) of section 2929.23 of the Revised Code, impose a period of electronically monitored house detention in accordance with division (I) of this section that does not exceed the maximum sentence of imprisonment that could be imposed upon an adult who commits the same act;

(11) Commit the child to the temporary or permanent custody of the court;

(12) Make any further disposition that the court finds proper, except that the child shall not be placed in any state correctional institution, county, multicounty, or municipal jail or workhouse, or any other place in which an adult convicted of a crime, under arrest, or charged with a crime is held.

(B)(1) If a child is adjudicated a delinquent child for violating section 2923.32 of the Revised Code, the court, in addition to any order of disposition it makes for the child under division (A) of this section, shall enter an order of criminal forfeiture against the child, in accordance with divisions (B)(3), (4), (5), and (6) and (C) to (F) of section 2923.32 of the Revised Code.

(2) If a child is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing two or more acts that would be felonies if committed by an adult and if the court entering the delinquent child adjudication orders the commitment of the child, for two or more of those acts, to the legal custody of the department of youth services for institutionalization or institutionalization in a secure facility pursuant to division (A)(4), (5), or (6) of this section, the court may order that all of the periods of commitment imposed under those divisions for those acts be served consecutively in the legal custody of the department of youth services and, if applicable, be in addition to and commence immediately following the expiration of a period of commitment that the court imposes pursuant to division (A)(7) of this section. A court shall not commit a delinquent child to the legal custody of the department of youth services under division (B)(2) of this section for a period that exceeds the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age.

(C) If a child is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing an act that, if committed by an adult, would be a drug abuse offense, as defined in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code, or for violating division (B) of section 2917.11 of the Revised Code, in addition to imposing in its discretion any other order of disposition authorized by this section, the court shall do both of the following:

(1) Require the child to participate in a drug abuse or alcohol abuse counseling program;

(2) Suspend or revoke the temporary instruction permit or probationary operator's license issued to the child until the child attains eighteen years of age or attends, at the discretion of the court, and satisfactorily completes, a drug abuse or alcohol abuse education, intervention, or treatment program specified by the court. During the time the child is attending the program, the court shall retain any temporary instruction permit or probationary license issued to the child, and the court shall return the permit or license when the child satisfactorily completes the program.

(D)(1) At the dispositional hearing and prior to making any disposition pursuant to division (A) of this section, the court shall determine whether a victim of the delinquent act committed by the child was five years of age or younger at the time the delinquent act was committed, whether a victim of the delinquent act sustained physical harm to the victim's person during the commission of or otherwise as a result of the delinquent act, whether a victim of the delinquent act was sixty-five years of age or older or permanently and totally disabled at the time the delinquent act was committed, and whether the delinquent act would have been an offense of violence if committed by an adult. If the victim was five years of age or younger at the time the delinquent act was committed, sustained physical harm to the victim's person during the commission of or otherwise as a result of the delinquent act, or was sixty-five years of age or older or permanently and totally disabled at the time the act was committed, regardless of whether the child knew the age of the victim, and if the act would have been an offense of violence if committed by an adult, the court shall consider those facts in favor of imposing commitment under division (A)(3), (4), (5), or (6) of this section, but those facts shall not control the court's decision.

(2) At the dispositional hearing and prior to making any disposition pursuant to division (A)(4), (5), or (6) of this section, the court shall determine whether the delinquent child previously has been adjudicated a delinquent child for a violation of a law or ordinance. If the delinquent child previously has been adjudicated a delinquent child for a violation of a law or ordinance, the court, for purposes of entering an order of disposition for the delinquent child under this section, shall consider the previous delinquent child adjudication as a conviction of a violation of the law or ordinance in determining the degree of offense the current delinquent act would be had it been committed by an adult.

(E)(1) When a juvenile court commits a delinquent child to the custody of the department of youth services pursuant to this section, the court shall not designate the specific institution in which the department is to place the child but instead shall specify that the child is to be institutionalized or that the institutionalization is to be in a secure facility if that is required by division (A) of this section.

(2) When a juvenile court commits a delinquent child to the custody of the department of youth services, the court shall provide the department with the child's social history, the child's medical records, a copy of the report of any mental examination of the child ordered by the court, the section or sections of the Revised Code violated by the child and the degree of the violation, the warrant to convey the child to the department, and a copy of the court's journal entry ordering the commitment of the child to the legal custody of the department. THE COURT ALSO SHALL COMPLETE THE FORM FOR THE STANDARD PREDISPOSITION INVESTIGATION REPORT THAT IS PREPARED AND FURNISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES PURSUANT TO SECTION 5139.04 of the Revised Code AND PROVIDE THE DEPARTMENT WITH THE COMPLETED FORM. The department may refuse to accept physical custody of a delinquent child who is committed to the legal custody of the department until the court provides to the department the documents specified in division (E)(2) of this section. No officer or employee of the department who refuses to accept physical custody of a delinquent child who is committed to the legal custody of the department shall be subject to prosecution or contempt of court for the refusal if the court fails to provide the documents specified in division (E)(2) of this section at the time the court transfers the physical custody of the child to the department.

(3) Within five working days after the juvenile court commits a delinquent child to the custody of the department of youth services, the court shall provide the department with a copy of the arrest record pertaining to the act for which the child was adjudicated a delinquent child, a copy of any victim impact statement pertaining to that act, and any other information concerning the child that the department reasonably requests. Within twenty working days after the department of youth services receives physical custody of a delinquent child from a juvenile court, the court shall provide the department with a certified copy of the child's birth certificate or the child's social security number, or, if the court made all reasonable efforts to obtain the information but was unsuccessful, the court shall provide the department with documentation of the efforts it made to obtain the information.

(4) When a juvenile court commits a delinquent child to the custody of the department of youth services, the court shall give notice to the school attended by the child of the child's commitment by sending to that school a copy of the court's journal entry ordering the commitment. As soon as possible after receipt of the notice described in this division, the school shall provide the department with the child's school transcript. However, the department shall not refuse to accept a child committed to it, and a child committed to it shall not be held in a county or district detention home, because of a school's failure to provide the school transcript that it is required to provide under division (E)(4) of this section.

(5) The department of youth services shall provide the court and the school with an updated copy of the child's school transcript and shall provide the court with a summary of the institutional record of the child when it releases the child from institutional care. The department also shall provide the court with a copy of any portion of the child's institutional record that the court specifically requests within five working days of the request.

(6) When a juvenile court commits a delinquent child to the custody of the department of youth services pursuant to division (A)(4) or (5) of this section, the court shall state in the order of commitment the total number of days that the child has been held, as of the date of the issuance of the order, in detention in connection with the delinquent child complaint upon which the order of commitment is based. The department shall reduce the minimum period of institutionalization or minimum period of institutionalization in a secure facility specified in division (A)(4) or (5) of this section by both the total number of days that the child has been so held in detention as stated by the court in the order of commitment and the total number of any additional days that the child has been held in detention subsequent to the order of commitment but prior to the transfer of physical custody of the child to the department.

(F)(1) At any hearing at which a child is adjudicated a delinquent child or as soon as possible after the hearing, the court shall notify all victims of the delinquent act, who may be entitled to a recovery under any of the following sections, of the right of the victims to recover, pursuant to section 3109.09 of the Revised Code, compensatory damages from the child's parents; of the right of the victims to recover, pursuant to section 3109.10 of the Revised Code, compensatory damages from the child's parents for willful and malicious assaults committed by the child; and of the right of the victims to recover an award of reparations pursuant to sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the Revised Code.

(2) If a child is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing an act that, if committed by an adult, would be aggravated murder, murder, rape, felonious sexual penetration in violation of former section 2907.12 of the Revised Code, involuntary manslaughter, a felony of the first or second degree resulting in the death of or physical harm to a person, complicity in or an attempt to commit any of those offenses, or an offense under an existing or former law of this state that is or was substantially equivalent to any of those offenses and if the court in its order of disposition for that act commits the child to the custody of the department of youth services, the court may make a specific finding that the adjudication should be considered a conviction for purposes of a determination in the future, pursuant to Chapter 2929. of the Revised Code, as to whether the child is a repeat violent offender as defined in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. If the court makes a specific finding as described in this division, it shall include the specific finding in its order of disposition and in the record in the case.

(G)(1) If a child is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing an act that would be a felony if committed by an adult and if the child caused, attempted to cause, threatened to cause, or created the risk of physical harm to the victim of the act, the court, prior to issuing an order of disposition under this section, shall order the preparation of a victim impact statement by the probation department of the county in which the victim of the act resides, by the court's own probation department, or by a victim assistance program that is operated by the state, a county, a municipal corporation, or another governmental entity. The court shall consider the victim impact statement in determining the order of disposition to issue for the child.

(2) Each victim impact statement shall identify the victim of the act for which the child was adjudicated a delinquent child, itemize any economic loss suffered by the victim as a result of the act, identify any physical injury suffered by the victim as a result of the act and the seriousness and permanence of the injury, identify any change in the victim's personal welfare or familial relationships as a result of the act and any psychological impact experienced by the victim or the victim's family as a result of the act, and contain any other information related to the impact of the act upon the victim that the court requires.

(3) A victim impact statement shall be kept confidential and is not a public record, as defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Code. However, the court may furnish copies of the statement to the department of youth services pursuant to division (E)(3) of this section or to both the adjudicated delinquent child or the adjudicated delinquent child's counsel and the prosecuting attorney. The copy of a victim impact statement furnished by the court to the department pursuant to division (E)(3) of this section shall be kept confidential and is not a public record, as defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Code. The copies of a victim impact statement that are made available to the adjudicated delinquent child or the adjudicated delinquent child's counsel and the prosecuting attorney pursuant to division (G)(3) of this section shall be returned to the court by the person to whom they were made available immediately following the imposition of an order of disposition for the child under this section.

(H)(1) As used in this division, "felony drug abuse offense" has the same meaning as in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code.

(2) Sections 2925.41 to 2925.45 of the Revised Code apply to children who are adjudicated or could be adjudicated by a juvenile court to be delinquent children for an act that, if committed by an adult, would be a felony drug abuse offense. Subject to division (B) of section 2925.42 and division (E) of section 2925.43 of the Revised Code, a delinquent child of that nature loses any right to the possession of, and forfeits to the state any right, title, and interest that the delinquent child may have in, property as defined in section 2925.41 and further described in section 2925.42 or 2925.43 of the Revised Code.

(I)(1) As used in this section:

(a) "Electronic monitoring device," "certified electronic monitoring device," "electronic monitoring system," and "certified electronic monitoring system" have the same meanings as in section 2929.23 of the Revised Code.

(b) "Electronically monitored house detention" means a period of confinement of a child in the child's home or in other premises specified by the court, during which period of confinement all of the following apply:

(i) The child wears, otherwise has attached to the child's person, or otherwise is subject to monitoring by a certified electronic monitoring device or is subject to monitoring by a certified electronic monitoring system.

(ii) The child is required to remain in the child's home or other premises specified by the court for the specified period of confinement, except for periods of time during which the child is at school or at other premises as authorized by the court.

(iii) The child is subject to monitoring by a central system that monitors the certified electronic monitoring device that is attached to the child's person or that otherwise is being used to monitor the child and that can monitor and determine the child's location at any time or at a designated point in time, or the child is required to participate in monitoring by a certified electronic monitoring system.

(iv) The child is required by the court to report periodically to a person designated by the court.

(v) The child is subject to any other restrictions and requirements that may be imposed by the court.

(2) A juvenile court, pursuant to division (A)(10) of this section, may impose a period of electronically monitored house detention upon a child who is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing an act that, if committed by an adult, would be a criminal offense that would qualify the adult as an eligible offender pursuant to division (A)(3) of section 2929.23 of the Revised Code. The court may impose a period of electronically monitored house detention in addition to or in lieu of any other dispositional order imposed upon the child, except that any period of electronically monitored house detention shall not extend beyond the child's eighteenth birthday. If a court imposes a period of electronically monitored house detention upon a child, it shall require the child to wear, otherwise have attached to the child's person, or otherwise be subject to monitoring by a certified electronic monitoring device or to participate in the operation of and monitoring by a certified electronic monitoring system; to remain in the child's home or other specified premises for the entire period of electronically monitored house detention except when the court permits the child to leave those premises to go to school or to other specified premises; to be monitored by a central system that monitors the certified electronic monitoring device that is attached to the child's person or that otherwise is being used to monitor the child and that can monitor and determine the child's location at any time or at a designated point in time or to be monitored by the certified electronic monitoring system; to report periodically to a person designated by the court; and, in return for receiving a dispositional order of electronically monitored house detention, to enter into a written contract with the court agreeing to comply with all restrictions and requirements imposed by the court, agreeing to pay any fee imposed by the court for the costs of the electronically monitored house detention imposed by the court pursuant to division (E) of section 2929.23 of the Revised Code, and agreeing to waive the right to receive credit for any time served on electronically monitored house detention toward the period of any other dispositional order imposed upon the child for the act for which the dispositional order of electronically monitored house detention was imposed if the child violates any of the restrictions or requirements of the dispositional order of electronically monitored house detention. The court also may impose other reasonable restrictions and requirements upon the child.

(3) If a child violates any of the restrictions or requirements imposed upon the child as part of the child's dispositional order of electronically monitored house detention, the child shall not receive credit for any time served on electronically monitored house detention toward any other dispositional order imposed upon the child for the act for which the dispositional order of electronically monitored house detention was imposed.

(J) Within ten days after completion of the adjudication, the court shall give written notice of an adjudication that a child is a delinquent child to the superintendent of a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district if the basis of the adjudication was the commission of an act that would be a criminal offense if committed by an adult and that was committed by the delinquent child when the child was sixteen years of age or older and if the act is any of the following:

(1) A violation of section 2923.122 of the Revised Code that relates to property owned or controlled by, or to an activity held under the auspices of, the board of education of that school district;

(2) A violation of section 2923.12 of the Revised Code or of a substantially similar municipal ordinance that was committed on property owned or controlled by, or at an activity held under the auspices of, the board of education of that school district;

(3) A violation of division (A) of section 2925.03 or 2925.11 of the Revised Code that was committed on property owned or controlled by, or at an activity held under the auspices of, the board of education of that school district and that is not a minor drug possession offense as defined in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code;

(4) A violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, 2903.03, 2903.04, 2903.11, 2903.12, 2907.02, or 2907.05 of the Revised Code, or a violation of former section 2907.12 of the Revised Code, that was committed on property owned or controlled by, or at an activity held under the auspices of, the board of education of that school district, if the victim at the time of the commission of the act was an employee of the board of education of that school district;

(5) Complicity in any violation described in division (J)(1), (2), (3), or (4) of this section that was alleged to have been committed in the manner described in division (J)(1), (2), (3), or (4) of this section, regardless of whether the act of complicity was committed on property owned or controlled by, or at an activity held under the auspices of, the board of education of that school district.

(K) During the period of a delinquent child's probation granted under division (A)(2) of this section, authorized probation officers who are engaged within the scope of their supervisory duties or responsibilities may search, with or without a warrant, the person of the delinquent child, the place of residence of the delinquent child, and a motor vehicle, another item of tangible or intangible personal property, or other real property in which the delinquent child has a right, title, or interest or for which the delinquent child has the express or implied permission of a person with a right, title, or interest to use, occupy, or possess if the probation officers have reasonable grounds to believe that the delinquent child is not abiding by the law or otherwise is not complying with the conditions of the delinquent child's probation. The court that places a delinquent child on probation under division (A)(2) of this section shall provide the delinquent child with a written notice that informs the delinquent child that authorized probation officers who are engaged within the scope of their supervisory duties or responsibilities may conduct those types of searches during the period of probation if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the delinquent child is not abiding by the law or otherwise is not complying with the conditions of the delinquent child's probation. The court also shall provide the written notice described in division (C)(2)(b) of section 2151.411 of the Revised Code to each parent, guardian, or custodian of the delinquent child who is described in division (C)(2)(a) of that section.

Sec. 2151.38. (A) When a child is committed to the legal custody of the department of youth services, the jurisdiction of the juvenile court with respect to the child so committed shall cease and terminate at the time of commitment, except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section and except that, if the department of youth services makes a motion to the court for the termination of permanent custody, the court upon the motion, after notice and hearing and for good cause shown, may terminate permanent custody at any time prior to the child's attainment of eighteen years of age. The court shall make disposition of the matter in whatever manner will serve the best interests of the child. Subject to divisions (B) and (C) of this section, sections 2151.353 and 2151.411 to 2151.421 of the Revised Code, and any other provision of law that specifies a different duration for a commitment, all other commitments made by the court shall be temporary and shall continue for a period that is designated by the court in its order, until terminated or modified by the court or until the child attains twenty-one years of age.

(B)(1)(a) If a child is committed to the department of youth services pursuant to division (A)(4) or (5) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code, except as provided in division (B)(1)(b) and (c) of this section and in section 5139.38 of the Revised Code,. THE RELEASE AUTHORITY OF the department shall not release the child from institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility and as a result shall not discharge the child, OR order the child's release on parole, or assign the child to a family home, group care facility, or other place for treatment or rehabilitation, SUPERVISED RELEASE prior to the expiration of the prescribed minimum period of institutionalization or institutionalization in a secure facility, unless the department, the child, or the child's parent requests an early release from institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility from the court that committed the child and the court approves the early release in a journal entry, or unless the court on its own motion grants an early release. A request for early release by the department, the child, or the child's parent shall be made only in accordance with division (B)(2) of this section.

If a child is committed to the department of youth services pursuant to division (A)(6) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code, except as provided in division (B)(1)(b) and (c) of this section and in section 5139.38 of the Revised Code, the department shall not release the child from institutional care in a secure facility, and as a result shall not discharge the child, order the child's release on parole, or assign the child to a family home, group care facility, or other place for treatment or rehabilitation, prior to the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age, unless the department, the child, or the child's parent requests an early release from institutional care in a secure facility from the court that committed the child and the court approves the early release in a journal entry, or unless the court on its own motion grants an early release. A request for early release by the department, the child, or the child's parent shall be made only in accordance with division (B)(2) of this section.

(b) If a child is committed to the department of youth services pursuant to division (A)(7) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code, the department shall not release the child from institutional care in a secure facility, and as a result shall not discharge the child, order the child's release on parole, or assign the child to a family home, group care facility, or other place for treatment or rehabilitation, prior to the expiration of the period of commitment required to be imposed by that division and prior to the expiration of the prescribed minimum period of institutionalization or institutionalization in a secure facility under division (A)(4) or (5) of that section if either of those divisions applies or prior to the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age if division (A)(6) of that section applies, unless the department, the child, or the child's parent requests an early release from institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility from the court that committed the child, and the court approves the early release in a journal entry, or unless the court on its own motion grants an early release. The department, the child, or the child's parent shall make a request for early release only in accordance with division (B)(2) of this section.

(c) If a child is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing two or more acts that would be felonies if committed by an adult, if the court entering the delinquent child adjudication ordered the commitment of the child to the legal custody of the department of youth services for institutionalization or institutionalization in a secure facility pursuant to division (A)(4), (5), or (6) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code, and if pursuant to division (B)(2) of that section the court ordered the periods of commitment imposed under division (A)(4), (5), or (6) of that section for each of those delinquent acts to be served consecutively in the legal custody of the department, the department shall not release the child from institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility, and as a result shall not discharge the child, order the child's release on parole, or assign the child to a family home, group care facility, or other place for treatment or rehabilitation, prior to the expiration of any period of commitment imposed under division (A)(7) of that section and prior to the earlier of the expiration of the prescribed minimum periods or prescribed periods of institutionalization or institutionalization in a secure facility imposed under division (A)(4), (5), or (6) of that section for each of those delinquent acts or the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age, unless the department, the child, or the child's parent requests an early release from institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility from the court that committed the child, and the court approves the early release in a journal entry, or unless the court on its own motion grants an early release. The department, the child, or the child's parent shall make a request for early release only in accordance with division (B)(2) of this section.

(2)(a) If OR PRIOR TO THE CHILD'S ATTAINMENT OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE, EXCEPT UPON THE ORDER OF A COURT PURSUANT TO DIVISION (B) OR (C) OF THIS SECTION OR IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 5139.54 OF THE REVISED CODE.

(B)(1) IF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES DESIRES TO RELEASE A CHILD DURING THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED SIXTY DAYS FROM THE DAY ON WHICH THE CHILD BEGAN INSTITUTIONAL CARE OR INSTITUTIONAL CARE IN A SECURE FACILITY, IT SHALL REQUEST THE COURT THAT COMMITTED THE CHILD TO THE DEPARTMENT FOR A JUDICIAL RELEASE OF THE CHILD FROM INSTITUTIONAL CARE OR INSTITUTIONAL CARE IN A SECURE FACILITY. DURING THAT ONE-HUNDRED-SIXTY-DAY PERIOD, THE CHILD OR THE PARENTS OF THE CHILD ALSO MAY REQUEST THAT COURT TO GRANT A JUDICIAL RELEASE OF THE CHILD FROM INSTITUTIONAL CARE OR INSTITUTIONAL CARE IN A SECURE FACILITY. UPON RECEIPT OF A REQUEST FOR A JUDICIAL RELEASE FROM THE DEPARTMENT, THE CHILD, OR THE CHILD'S PARENT OR UPON ITS OWN MOTION, THE COURT THAT COMMITTED THE CHILD SHALL APPROVE THE JUDICIAL RELEASE FROM INSTITUTIONAL CARE OR INSTITUTIONAL CARE IN A SECURE FACILITY BY JOURNAL ENTRY, SHALL SCHEDULE WITHIN TWENTY DAYS AFTER THE REQUEST IS RECEIVED A TIME FOR A HEARING ON WHETHER THE CHILD IS TO BE RELEASED, OR SHALL REJECT THE REQUEST BY JOURNAL ENTRY WITHOUT CONDUCTING A HEARING. IF THE COURT REJECTS AN INITIAL REQUEST FOR A JUDICIAL RELEASE BY THE CHILD OR THE CHILD'S PARENT, THE CHILD OR THE CHILD'S PARENT MAY MAKE ONE ADDITIONAL REQUEST FOR A JUDICIAL RELEASE WITHIN THE ONE-HUNDRED-SIXTY-DAY PERIOD. THE CHILD OR THE CHILD'S PARENT MAY MAKE THE ADDITIONAL REQUEST NO EARLIER THAN THIRTY DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE PRIOR REQUEST FOR A JUDICIAL RELEASE. UPON THE FILING BY THE CHILD OR THE CHILD'S PARENT OF A SECOND REQUEST FOR A JUDICIAL RELEASE, THE COURT SHALL EITHER APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE THE JUDICIAL RELEASE BY JOURNAL ENTRY OR SCHEDULE WITHIN TWENTY DAYS AFTER THE REQUEST IS RECEIVED A TIME FOR A HEARING ON WHETHER THE CHILD IS TO BE RELEASED.

(2) IF A COURT SCHEDULES A HEARING TO DETERMINE WHETHER A CHILD SHOULD BE GRANTED A JUDICIAL RELEASE UNDER DIVISION (B)(1) OF THIS SECTION, IT MAY ORDER THE DEPARTMENT TO DELIVER THE CHILD TO THE COURT ON THE DATE SET FOR THE HEARING AND MAY ORDER THE DEPARTMENT TO PRESENT TO THE COURT A REPORT ON THE CHILD'S PROGRESS IN THE INSTITUTION TO WHICH THE CHILD WAS COMMITTED AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPERVISION OF THE CHILD BY THE COURT AFTER RELEASE. THE COURT MAY CONDUCT THE HEARING WITHOUT THE CHILD BEING PRESENT. THE COURT SHALL DETERMINE AT THE HEARING WHETHER THE CHILD SHOULD BE GRANTED A JUDICIAL RELEASE FROM INSTITUTIONALIZATION OR INSTITUTIONALIZATION IN A SECURE FACILITY. IF THE COURT APPROVES THE JUDICIAL RELEASE, THE COURT SHALL ORDER ITS STAFF TO PREPARE A WRITTEN TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION PLAN FOR THE CHILD THAT INCLUDES ANY TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE CHILD'S RELEASE RECOMMENDED BY THE DEPARTMENT. THE COMMITTING COURT SHALL SEND THE JUVENILE COURT OF THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE CHILD IS PLACED A COPY OF THE RECOMMENDED PLAN AND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET BY THE COMMITTING COURT. THE COURT OF THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE CHILD IS PLACED MAY ADOPT THE RECOMMENDED TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET BY THE COMMITTING COURT AS AN ORDER OF THE COURT AND MAY ADD ANY OTHER CONSISTENT TERMS AND CONDITIONS IT CONSIDERS APPROPRIATE.

(C)(1) IF A CHILD IS COMMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES AND HAS BEEN IN INSTITUTIONAL CARE OR INSTITUTIONAL CARE IN A SECURE FACILITY FOR ONE HUNDRED SIXTY DAYS OR MORE, IF THE PRESCRIBED MINIMUM PERIOD OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION OR OTHER STATUTORILY REQUIRED PERIOD OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION HAS NOT EXPIRED, AND IF the department of youth services desires to release a THE child committed to it pursuant to division (A)(4) or (5) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code from institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility prior to the expiration of the prescribed minimum periods of institutionalization, if it desires to release a child committed to it pursuant to division (A)(6) of that section from institutional care in a secure facility prior to the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age, if it desires to release a child committed to it pursuant to division (A)(7) of that section from institutional care in a secure facility prior to the expiration of the period of commitment required to be imposed by that division and prior to the expiration of the prescribed minimum period of institutionalization or institutionalization in a secure facility under division (A)(4) or (5) of that section if either of those divisions applies or prior to the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age if division (A)(6) of that section applies, or if it desires to release a child committed to it under the circumstances described in division (B)(1)(c) of this section prior to the expiration of the prescribed minimum periods or prescribed periods of institutionalization or institutionalization in a secure facility described in that division, except as provided in section 5139.38 of the Revised Code, it shall request the court that committed the child for an early release from institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility.

Upon receipt of a request for a child's early release filed by the department under this section at any time or upon its own motion at any time, the court that committed the child to the department shall approve the early release from institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility by journal entry, shall schedule a time within thirty days for a hearing on whether the child is to be released, or shall reject the request by journal entry without conducting a hearing.

(b) If a child who has been committed to the department pursuant to division (A)(4), (5), (6), or (7) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code or the parents of a child so committed seek the child's early release from institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility as described in division (B)(1)(a), (b), or (c) of this section DURING THAT PERIOD BETWEEN ONE HUNDRED SIXTY DAYS AND THE EXPIRATION OF THE REQUIRED MINIMUM OR OTHER PERIOD OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION OR INSTITUIONALIZATION IN A SECURE FACILITY, the child or the child's parent shall ALSO MAY request the court that committed the child to grant an early release. No request of that type initially may be made prior to the expiration of thirty days from the day on which the child began institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility. Upon the filing RECEIPT of an initial A request for early release FROM THE DEPARTMENT, THE CHILD, OR THE CHILD'S PARENT OR UPON ITS OWN MOTION AT ANY TIME DURING THAT PERIOD, the court shall approve the early release by journal entry, shall schedule a time within thirty days AFTER RECEIPT OF THE REQUEST for a hearing on whether the child is to be released, or shall reject the request by journal entry without conducting a hearing. If THE COURT REJECTS an initial request for early release is rejected BY THE CHILD OR THE CHILD'S PARENTS, WITHIN THE PERIOD PRESCRIBED IN DIVISION (C)(1) OF THIS SECTION, the child or the child's parent may make one or more subsequent requests for early release but may make no more than one request for early release during each period of ninety days that the child is institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility after the filing of a prior request for early release. Upon the filing of any A request for early release subsequent to an initial request, the court shall either approve or disapprove the early release by journal entry or schedule a time within thirty days AFTER RECEIPT OF THE REQUEST A TIME for a hearing on whether the child is to be released.

(c)(2) If a court schedules a hearing to determine whether a child committed to the department should be granted an early release, either upon receipt of a request filed by the department under division (B)(2)(a) of this section or filed by the child or the child's parent in accordance with the time periods prescribed in division (B)(2)(b) of this section, or upon its own motion, it may order the department to deliver the child to the court on the date set for the hearing and shall order the department to present to the court at that time a treatment plan for the child's post-institutional care. The court may conduct the hearing without the child being present. The court shall determine at the hearing whether the child should be released GRANTED AN EARLY RELEASE from institutionalization or institutionalization in a secure facility. If the court approves the early release, the department shall prepare a written treatment and rehabilitation plan for the child pursuant to division (D)(E) of this section that shall include the terms and conditions of the child's release. It shall send the committing court and the juvenile court of the county in which the child is placed a copy of the plan and the terms and conditions that it fixed. The court of the county in which the child is placed may adopt the terms and conditions set by the department as an order of the court and may add any additional consistent terms and conditions it considers appropriate. If

(D) IF a child is released under this division (B) OR (C) OF THIS SECTION and the court of the county in which the child is placed has reason to believe that the child has CHILD'S DEPORTMENT IS not deported himself or herself in accordance with any THE post-release terms and conditions established by the court in its journal entry, the court of the county in which the child is placed shall schedule a time for a hearing on whether the child violated any of the post-release terms and conditions. If the THAT court of the county in which the child is placed determines at the hearing that the child violated any of the post-release terms and conditions established by the court in its journal entry, the court, if it determines that the violation of the terms and conditions was a serious violation, may order the child to be returned to the department for institutionalization or institutionalization in a secure facility, consistent with the original order of commitment of the child, or in any case may make any other disposition of the child authorized by law that the court considers proper. If the court of the county in which the child is placed orders the child to be returned to a department of youth services institution, the time during which the child was institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility prior to the child's JUCIDIAL RELEASE OR early release shall be considered as time served in fulfilling the prescribed minimum period or prescribed period of institutionalization or institutionalization in a secure facility that is applicable to the child under the child's original order of commitment. If the court orders the child returned to a department of youth services institution, the child shall remain in institutional care for a minimum period of three months or until the child successfully completes a specialized parole SUPERVISED RELEASE revocation program of a duration of not less than thirty days operated either by the department or by an entity with whom the department has contracted to provide a specialized parole SUPERVISED RELEASE revocation program.

(C) If a child is committed to the department of youth services pursuant to division (A)(4) or (5) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code and the child has been institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility for the prescribed minimum periods of time under those divisions, the department, without approval of the court that committed the child, may release the child from institutional care or discharge the child. If the department releases the child from institutional care and then orders the child's release on parole or assigns the child to a family home, group care facility, or other place for treatment or rehabilitation, the department also shall prepare a written treatment and rehabilitation plan for the child pursuant to division (D) of this section that shall include the terms and conditions of the child's release or assignment, and shall send the committing court and the juvenile court of the county in which the child is placed a copy of the plan and the terms and conditions that it fixed. The court of the county in which the child is placed may adopt the terms and conditions as an order of the court and may add any additional consistent terms and conditions it considers appropriate. The release, discharge, release on parole, or assignment shall be in accordance with division (C) of section 5139.06 of the Revised Code. Upon notification of a pending release, discharge, release on parole, or assignment in accordance with that division, the committing court shall enter the notification in its journal. If a child is released on parole or is assigned subject to specified terms and conditions and the court of the county in which the child is placed has reason to believe that the child has not deported himself or herself in accordance with any post-release terms and conditions established by the court in its journal entry, the court of the county in which the child is placed, in its discretion, may schedule a time for a hearing on whether the child violated any of the post-release terms and conditions. If the court of the county in which the child is placed conducts a hearing and determines at the hearing that the child violated any of the post-release terms and conditions established in its journal entry, the court, if it determines that the violation of the terms and conditions was a serious violation, may order the child to be returned to the department of youth services for institutionalization, or in any case may make any other disposition of the child authorized by law that the court considers proper. If the court of the county in which the child is placed orders the child to be returned to a department of youth services institution, the child shall remain institutionalized for a minimum period of three months or until the child successfully completes a specialized parole revocation program of a duration of not less than thirty days operated either by the department or by an entity with whom the department has contracted to provide a specialized parole revocation program.

(D)(E) The department of youth services, prior to the release of a child pursuant to division (B) or (C) of this section, shall do all of the following:

(1) After reviewing the child's rehabilitative progress history and medical and educational records, prepare a written treatment and rehabilitation plan for the child that shall include terms and conditions of the release;

(2) Completely discuss the terms and conditions of the plan prepared pursuant to division (D)(1)(E)(1) of this section and the possible penalties for violation of the plan with the child and the child's parents, guardian, or legal custodian;

(3) Have the plan prepared pursuant to division (D)(1)(E)(1) of this section signed by the child, the child's parents, legal guardian, or custodian, and any authority or person that is to supervise, control, and provide supportive assistance to the child at the time of the child's release pursuant to division (B) or (C) of this section;

(4) File a copy of the treatment plan prepared pursuant to division (D)(1)(E)(1) of this section, prior to the child's release, with the committing court and the juvenile court of the county in which the child is to be placed.

(E)(F) The department of youth services shall file a written progress report with the committing court regarding each child released pursuant to division (B) or (C) of this section, at least once every thirty days unless specifically directed otherwise by the court. The report shall indicate the treatment and rehabilitative progress of the child and the child's family, if applicable, and shall include any suggestions and recommendations for alteration of the program, custody, living arrangements, or treatment. The department shall retain legal custody of a child so released until it discharges the child or until the custody is terminated as otherwise provided by law.

Sec. 5139.01. (A) As used in this chapter:

(1) "Commitment" means the transfer of the physical custody of a child or youth from the court to the department of youth services.

(2) "Permanent commitment" means a commitment that vests legal custody of a child in the department of youth services.

(3) "Legal custody," insofar as it pertains to the status that is created when a child is permanently committed to the department of youth services, means a legal status in which the department has the following rights and responsibilities: the right to have physical possession of the child; the right and duty to train, protect, and control the child; the responsibility to provide the child with food, clothing, shelter, education, and medical care; and the right to determine where and with whom the child shall live, subject to the minimum periods of, or periods of, institutional care prescribed in section 2151.355 of the Revised Code; provided, that these rights and responsibilities are exercised subject to the powers, rights, duties, and responsibilities of the guardian of the person of the child, and subject to any residual parental rights and responsibilities.

(4) Unless the context requires a different meaning, "institution" means a state facility that is created by the general assembly and that is under the management and control of the department of youth services or a private entity with which the department has contracted for the institutional care and custody of felony delinquents.

(5) "Full-time care" means care for twenty-four hours a day for over a period of at least two consecutive weeks.

(6) "Placement" means the conditional release of a child under the terms and conditions that are specified by the department of youth services. The department shall retain legal custody of a child released pursuant to division (B) of section 2151.38 of the Revised Code or division (C) of section 5139.06 of the Revised Code until the time that it discharges the child or until the legal custody is terminated as otherwise provided by law.

(7) "Home placement" means the placement of a child in the home of the child's parent or parents or in the home of the guardian of the child's person.

(8) "Discharge" means that the department of youth services' legal custody of a child is terminated.

(9) "Release" means the termination of a child's stay in an institution. A child released pursuant to division (B) of section 2151.38 or pursuant to division (C) of section 5139.06 of the Revised Code shall be on parole until discharged pursuant to division (C)(5) of section 5139.06 of the Revised Code or until legal custody is terminated as otherwise provided by law AND THE SUBSEQUENT PERIOD DURING WHICH THE CHILD RETURNS TO THE COMMUNITY UNDER THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE.

(10) "Delinquent child" has the same meaning as in section 2151.02 of the Revised Code.

(11) "Felony delinquent" means any child who is at least twelve years of age but less than eighteen years of age and who is adjudicated a delinquent child for having committed an act that if committed by an adult would be a felony. "Felony delinquent" includes any adult who is between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one and who is in the legal custody of the department of youth services for having committed an act that if committed by an adult would be a felony.

(12) "Juvenile traffic offender" has the same meaning as in section 2151.021 of the Revised Code.

(13) "Public safety beds" INCLUDES A CHILD DESCRIBED IN DIVISION (I) OF SECTION 5139.52 of the Revised Code AND ALSO means all of the following:

(a) Felony delinquents who have been committed to the department of youth services for the commission of an act, other than a violation of section 2911.01 or 2911.11 of the Revised Code, that is a category one offense or a category two offense and who are in the care and custody of an institution or have been diverted from care and custody in an institution and placed in a community corrections facility;

(b) Felony delinquents who, while committed to the department of youth services and in the care and custody of an institution or a community corrections facility, are adjudicated delinquent children for having committed in that institution or community corrections facility an act that if committed by an adult would be a felony or a misdemeanor;

(c) Children who satisfy all of the following:

(i) They are at least twelve years of age but less than eighteen years of age.

(ii) They are adjudicated delinquent children for having committed acts that if committed by an adult would be a felony.

(iii) They are committed to the department of youth services by the juvenile court of a county that has had one-tenth of one per cent or less of the statewide adjudications for felony delinquents as averaged, through December 31, 1995, for the past two fiscal years or as averaged, on and after January 1, 1996, for the past four fiscal years.

(iv) They are in the care and custody of an institution or a community corrections facility.

(d) Felony delinquents who, while committed to the department of youth services and in the care and custody of an institution, commit in that institution an act that if committed by an adult would be a felony, who are serving administrative time, as defined by rules of the department adopted pursuant to division (E) of section 5139.04 of the Revised Code, for having committed that act, and who have been institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility for the minimum period of time specified in division (A)(4) or (5) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code.

(e) Felony delinquents who are subject to and serving a three-year period of commitment order imposed by a juvenile court pursuant to division (A)(7) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code for an act, other than a violation of section 2911.11 of the Revised Code, that would be a category one offense or category two offense if committed by an adult.

(14) "State target youth" means twenty-five per cent of the projected total number of felony delinquents for each year of a biennium, factoring in revocations and recommitments.

(15) Unless the context requires a different meaning, "community corrections facility" means a county or multicounty rehabilitation center for felony delinquents who have been committed to the department of youth services and diverted from care and custody in an institution and placed in the rehabilitation center pursuant to division (E) of section 5139.36 of the Revised Code.

(16) "Secure facility" means any facility that is designed and operated to ensure that all of its entrances and exits are under the exclusive control of its staff and to ensure that, because of that exclusive control, no child who has been institutionalized in the facility may leave the facility without permission or supervision.

(17) "Community residential program" means a program that satisfies both of the following:

(a) It is housed in a building or other structure that has no associated major restraining construction, including, but not limited to, a security fence.

(b) It provides twenty-four-hour care, supervision, and programs for felony delinquents who are in residence.

(18) "Category one offense" and "category two offense" have the same meanings is in section 2151.26 of the Revised Code.

(19) "REVOCATION" MEANS THE ACT OF REVOKING A CHILD'S SUPERVISED RELEASE FOR A VIOLATION OF A TERM OR CONDITION OF THE CHILD'S SUPERVISED RELEASE AND THE RETURN OF THE CHILD TO A SECURE FACILITY OR A DESIGNATED SECURE OR NONSECURE RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM, INCLUDING A COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS FACILITY.

(20) "RELEASE AUTHORITY" MEANS THE RELEASE AUTHORITY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES THAT IS ESTABLISHED BY SECTION 5139.50 OF THE REVISED CODE.

(21) "SUPERVISED RELEASE" MEANS THE EVENT OF THE RELEASE OF A CHILD FROM A SECURE FACILITY AND THE PERIOD AFTER THAT RELEASE DURING WHICH THE CHILD IS SUPERVISED AND ASSISTED BY AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES UNDER SPECIFIC TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR REINTEGRATION OF THE CHILD INTO THE COMMUNITY.

(22) "VICTIM" MEANS THE PERSON IDENTIFIED IN A POLICE REPORT, COMPLAINT, OR INFORMATION AS THE VICTIM OF AN ACT THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A CRIMINAL OFFENSE IF COMMITTED BY AN ADULT AND THAT PROVIDED THE BASIS FOR ADJUDICATION PROCEEDINGS RESULTING IN A CHILD'S COMMITMENT TO THE LEGAL CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES.

(23) "VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE" MEANS A MEMBER OF THE VICTIM'S FAMILY OR ANOTHER PERSON WHOM THE VICTIM DESIGNATES TO REPRESENT THE VICTIM WITH RESPECT TO PROCEEDINGS OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES.

(24) "MEMBER OF THE VICTIM'S FAMILY" MEANS A SPOUSE, CHILD, STEPCHILD, SIBLING, PARENT, STEPPARENT, GRANDPARENT, OR OTHER RELATIVE OF A CHILD BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE A PERSON CHARGED WITH, CONVICTED OF, OR ADJUDICATED A DELINQUENT CHILD FOR A CRIMINAL OR DELINQUENT ACT COMMITTED AGAINST THE VICTIM OR ANOTHER CRIMINAL OR DELINQUENT ACT ARISING OUT OF THE SAME CONDUCT, CRIMINAL OR DELINQUENT EPISODE, OR PLAN AS THE CRIMINAL OR DELINQUENT ACT COMMITTED AGAINST THE VICTIM.

(B) There is hereby created the department of youth services. The governor shall appoint the director of the department with the advice and consent of the senate. The director shall hold office during the term of the appointing governor but subject to removal at the pleasure of the governor. Except as otherwise authorized in section 108.05 of the Revised Code, the director shall devote the director's entire time to the duties of the director's office and shall hold no other office or position of trust or profit during the director's term of office.

The director is the chief executive and administrative officer of the department and has all the powers of a department head set forth in Chapter 121. of the Revised Code. The director may adopt rules for the government of the department, the conduct of its officers and employees, the performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the department's records, papers, books, documents, and property. The director shall be an appointing authority within the meaning of Chapter 124. of the Revised Code. Whenever this or any other chapter or section of the Revised Code imposes a duty on or requires an action of the department, the duty or action shall be performed by the director or, upon the director's order, in the name of the department.

Sec. 5139.04. The department of youth services shall do all of the following:

(A) Support service districts through a central administrative office that shall have as its administrative head a deputy director who shall be appointed by the director of the department. When a vacancy occurs in the office of that deputy director, an assistant deputy director shall act as that deputy director until the vacancy is filled. The position of deputy director and assistant deputy director described in this division shall be in the unclassified civil service of the state.

(B) Receive custody of all children committed to it under Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code, cause a study to be made of those children, and issue any orders, as it considers best suited to the needs of any of those children and the interest of the public, for the treatment of each of those children;

(C) Obtain personnel necessary for the performance of its duties;

(D) Train or provide for training of probation and youth correction workers;

(E) Adopt rules that regulate its organization and operation, that implement sections 5139.41 to 5139.46 of the Revised Code, that define administrative time for purposes of division (A)(13)(d) of section 5139.01 of the Revised Code, and that pertain to the administration of other sections of this chapter;

(F) Submit reports of its operations to the governor and the general assembly by the thirty-first day of January of each odd-numbered year;

(G) Conduct a program of research in diagnosis, training, and treatment of delinquent children to evaluate the effectiveness of the department's services and to develop more adequate methods;

(H) Receive reports from the juvenile courts under division (C)(3)(b) of section 5139.43 of the Revised Code and prepare an annual report of state juvenile court statistics and information based upon those reports. The department shall make available a copy of the annual report to the governor and members of the general assembly upon request.

(I) DEVELOP A STANDARD FORM FOR THE PREDISPOSITION INVESTIGATION REPORT THAT A JUVENILE COURT IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO SECTION 2151.355 of the Revised Code TO COMPLETE AND PROVIDE TO THE DEPARTMENT WHEN THE COURT COMMITS A CHILD TO THE LEGAL CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT;

(J) Do all other acts necessary or desirable to carry out this chapter.

Sec. 5139.05. (A) The juvenile court may commit any child to the department of youth services permanently as authorized in section 2151.355 of the Revised Code, provided that any child so committed shall be at least twelve years of age at the time of the child's commitment. Any order to commit a child to an institution under the control and management of the department shall have the effect of ordering that the child be committed to the department and assigned to an institution as follows:

(1) For an indefinite term consisting of the prescribed minimum period of time and a maximum period not to exceed the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age, if the child was committed pursuant to division (A)(4) or (5) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code;

(2) Until the child's attainment of twenty-one years of age, if the child was committed pursuant to division (A)(6) of that section;

(3) For a period of commitment that shall be in addition to, and shall be served consecutively with and prior to, a period of commitment described in division (A)(1) or (2) of this section, if the child was committed pursuant to division (A)(7) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code;

(4) For any period of commitment imposed under division (A)(7) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code and for consecutive periods of commitment as described in division (A)(1) or (2) of this section, if the child was the subject of a consecutive periods of commitment order issued by the court pursuant to division (B)(2) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code.

(B) The RELEASE AUTHORITY OF THE department of youth services may grant the release from institutionalization of any child committed to it pursuant to division (A)(4), (5), (6), or (7) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code in a manner consistent with section 5139.38 of the Revised Code, in a manner consistent with division (B) of section 2151.38 of the Revised Code if that division is applicable to the child, or in a manner consistent with division (C) of section 5139.06 of the Revised Code if division (B) of section 2151.38 of the Revised Code is no longer applicable to the child THE DEPARTMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 5139.51 of the Revised Code.

The order committing a child to the department of youth services shall state that the child has been adjudicated a delinquent child and that the commitment is permanent. The jurisdiction of the court terminates at the time of the commitment except in relation to procedures for the JUDICIAL RELEASE OR early release of children from institutionalization or institutionalization in a secure facility and hearings conducted relative to JUDICIAL RELEASE OR early release, except in relation to its authority to add consistent terms and conditions, except in relation to hearings conducted relative to violations of post-release THE terms and conditions OF A JUDICIAL RELEASE OR EARLY RELEASE, and except that the department may petition the court for an order terminating its custody. When a child has been committed permanently to the department, the department shall retain legal custody of the child until the time that it divests itself of the legal custody of the child by discharging the child to the exclusive management, control, and custody of the child's parent or the guardian of the child's person, until the committing court, upon its own motion, upon petition of the parent, guardian of the person, or next friend of a child, or upon petition of the department, terminates the department's legal custody of the child, or until the department's legal custody of the child is terminated automatically by the child attaining twenty-one years of age.

(C) When a child is committed to the department of youth services, the department may assign the child to a hospital for mental, physical, and other examination, inquiry, or treatment for the period of time that is necessary. The department may remove any child in its custody to a hospital for observation, and a complete report of every observation at the hospital shall be made in writing and shall include a record of observation, treatment, and medical history and a recommendation for future treatment, custody, and maintenance. The department shall thereupon order the placement and treatment that it determines to be most conducive to the purposes of Chapters 2151. and 5139. of the Revised Code. The committing court and all public authorities shall make available to the department all pertinent data in their possession with respect to the case.

(D) Records maintained by the department of youth services pertaining to the children in its custody shall be accessible only to department employees, except by consent of the department or upon the order of the judge of a court of record. These records shall not be considered "public records," as defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Code.

Except as otherwise provided by a law of this state or the United States, the department of youth services may release records that are maintained by the department of youth services and that pertain to children in its custody to the department of rehabilitation and correction regarding persons who are under the jurisdiction of the department of rehabilitation and correction and who have previously been committed to the department of youth services. The department of rehabilitation and correction may use those records for the limited purpose of carrying out the duties of the department of rehabilitation and correction. Records released by the department of youth services to the department of rehabilitation and correction shall remain confidential and shall not be considered public records as defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Code.

(E)(1) When a child is committed to the department of youth services, the department, orally or in writing, shall notify the parent, guardian, or custodian of a child that the parent, guardian, or custodian may request at any time from the superintendent of the institution in which the child is located any of the information described in divisions (E)(1)(a), (b), (c), and (d) of this section. The parent, guardian, or custodian may provide the department with the name, address, and telephone number of the parent, guardian, or custodian, and, until the department is notified of a change of name, address, or telephone number, the department shall use the name, address, and telephone number provided by the parent, guardian, or custodian to provide notices or answer inquiries concerning the following information:

(a) When the department of youth services makes a permanent assignment of the child to a facility, the department, orally or in writing and on or before the third business day after the day the permanent assignment is made, shall notify the parent, guardian, or custodian of the child of the name of the facility to which the child has been permanently assigned.

If a parent, guardian, or custodian of a child who is committed to the department of youth services requests, orally or in writing, the department to provide the parent, guardian, or custodian with the name of the facility in which the child is currently located, the department, orally or in writing and on or before the next business day after the day on which the request is made, shall provide the name of that facility to the parent, guardian, or custodian.

(b) If a parent, guardian, or custodian of a child who is committed to the department of youth services, orally or in writing, asks the superintendent of the institution in which the child is located whether the child is being disciplined by the personnel of the institution, what disciplinary measure the personnel of the institution are using for the child, or why the child is being disciplined, the superintendent or the superintendent's designee, on or before the next business day after the day on which the request is made, shall provide the parent, guardian, or custodian with written or oral responses to the questions.

(c) If a parent, guardian, or custodian of a child who is committed to the department of youth services, orally or in writing, asks the superintendent of the institution in which the child is held whether the child is receiving any medication from personnel of the institution, what type of medication the child is receiving, or what condition of the child the medication is intended to treat, the superintendent or the superintendent's designee, on or before the next business day after the day on which the request is made, shall provide the parent, guardian, or custodian with oral or written responses to the questions.

(d) When a major incident occurs with respect to a child who is committed to the department of youth services, the department, as soon as reasonably possible after the major incident occurs, shall notify the parent, guardian, or custodian of the child that a major incident has occurred with respect to the child and of all the details of that incident that the department has ascertained.

(2) The failure of the department of youth services to provide any notification required by or answer any requests made pursuant to division (E) of this section does not create a cause of action against the state.

(F) The department of youth services, as a means of punishment while the child is in its custody, shall not prohibit a child who is committed to the department from seeing that child's parent, guardian, or custodian during standard visitation periods allowed by the department of youth services unless the superintendent of the institution in which the child is held determines that permitting that child to visit with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian would create a safety risk to that child, that child's parents, guardian, or custodian, the personnel of the institution, or other children held in that institution.

(G) As used in this section:

(1) "Permanent assignment" means the assignment or transfer for an extended period of time of a child who is committed to the department of youth services to a facility in which the child will receive training or participate in activities that are directed toward the child's successful rehabilitation. "Permanent assignment" does not include the transfer of a child to a facility for early release hearings pursuant to section 2151.38 of the Revised Code or for any other temporary assignment or transfer to a facility.

(2) "Major incident" means the escape or attempted escape of a child who has been committed to the department of youth services from the facility to which the child is assigned; the return to the custody of the department of a child who has escaped or otherwise fled the custody and control of the department without authorization; the allegation of any sexual activity with a child committed to the department; physical injury to a child committed to the department as a result of alleged abuse by department staff; an accident resulting in injury to a child committed to the department that requires medical care or treatment outside the institution in which the child is located; the discovery of a controlled substance upon the person or in the property of a child committed to the department; a suicide attempt by a child committed to the department; a suicide attempt by a child committed to the department that results in injury to the child requiring emergency medical services outside the institution in which the child is located; the death of a child committed to the department; an injury to a visitor at an institution under the control of the department that is caused by a child committed to the department; and the commission or suspected commission of an act by a child committed to the department that would be an offense if committed by an adult.

(3) "Sexual activity" has the same meaning as in section 2907.01 of the Revised Code.

(4) "Controlled substance" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 5139.06. (A) When a child has been committed to the department of youth services, it shall do both of the following:

(1) Place the child in an appropriate institution under the condition that it considers best designed for the training and rehabilitation of the child and the protection of the public, provided that the institutional placement shall be consistent with the order committing the child to its custody;

(2) Maintain the child in institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility for the required period of institutionalization in a manner consistent with division (A)(4), (5), (6), or (7) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code, whichever is applicable, and with section 5139.38 or division (B) OR (C) of section 2151.38 of the Revised Code.

(B) When a child has been committed to the department of youth services pursuant to division (A)(6) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code, or when a child has been committed to the department pursuant to division (A)(4), (5), or (7) of that section and the child has not been institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility for the prescribed minimum periods of time or the prescribed period of time under those divisions, the department, the child, or the child's parent may request the court that committed the child to order A JUDICIAL RELEASE OR an early release from institutionalization or institutionalization in a secure facility in accordance with division (B) OR (C) of section 2151.38 of the Revised Code, and the child may be released from institutionalization or institutionalization in a secure facility in accordance with that THE APPLICABLE division. A child of that nature shall not be released from institutionalization or institutionalization in a secure facility except in accordance with that division or section 2151.38 OR 5139.38 OR SECTIONS 5139.50 TO 5139.54 of the Revised Code. WHEN A CHILD IS RELEASED PURSUANT TO DIVISION (B) OF SECTION 2151.38 of the Revised Code, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL COMPLY WITH DIVISION (B)(2) OF THAT SECTION AND, IF THE COURT REQUESTS, SHALL SEND THE COMMITTING COURT A REPORT ON THE CHILD'S PROGRESS IN THE INSTITUTION AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPERVISION BY THE COURT AFTER RELEASE. When a child is released pursuant to that division (C) OF SECTION 2151.38 of the Revised Code, the department shall comply with divisions (D) and (E) DIVISION (C)(2) of THAT section 2151.38 of the Revised Code relative to the child and shall send the committing court and the juvenile court of the county in which the child is placed a copy of the TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION plan DESCRIBED IN THAT DIVISION and the terms and conditions that it fixed. The court of the county in which the child is placed may adopt the terms and conditions as an order of the court and may add any additional consistent terms and conditions it considers appropriate. Any violations of the terms and conditions established in its journal entry by the court of the county in which the child is placed shall be handled pursuant to division (B)(D) of section 2151.38 of the Revised Code.

(C) When a child has been committed to the department of youth services, it may do any of the following:

(1) If the child was committed pursuant to division (A)(4) or (5) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code and has been institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility for the prescribed minimum periods of time under those divisions, order the child's release on parole under the supervision and conditions that it believes conducive to law-abiding conduct or order replacement or renewed parole as often as conditions indicate it to be desirable; provided that the department shall notify the committing court, in writing, of the terms of supervision and the conditions of the release at least fifteen days prior to the scheduled date of release.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter or Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code that prescribe required periods of institutionalization, transfer the child to any other state institution, whenever it appears that the child by reason of mental illness, mental retardation, or other developmental disability ought to be in another state institution. Before transferring a child to any other state institution, the department shall include in the minutes a record of the order of transfer and the reason for the transfer and, at least seven days prior to the transfer, shall send a certified copy of the order to the person shown by its record to have had the care or custody of the child immediately prior to the child's commitment. Except as provided in division (C)(3)(2) of this section, no person shall be transferred from a benevolent institution to a correctional institution or to a facility or institution operated by the department of youth services.

(3)(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter or Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code that prescribe required periods of institutionalization, transfer the child under section 5120.162 of the Revised Code to a correctional medical center established by the department of rehabilitation and correction, whenever the child has an illness, physical condition, or other medical problem and it appears that the child would benefit from diagnosis or treatment at the center for that illness, condition, or problem. Before transferring a child to a center, the department of youth services shall include in the minutes a record of the order of transfer and the reason for the transfer and, except in emergency situations, at least seven days prior to the transfer, shall send a certified copy of the order to the person shown by its records to have had the care or custody of the child immediately prior to the child's commitment. If the transfer of the child occurs in an emergency situation, as soon as possible after the decision is made to make the transfer, the department of youth services shall send a certified copy of the order to the person shown by its records to have had the care or custody of the child immediately prior to the child's commitment. A transfer under this division shall be in accordance with the terms of the agreement the department of youth services enters into with the department of rehabilitation and correction under section 5120.162 of the Revised Code and shall continue only as long as the child reasonably appears to receive benefit from diagnosis or treatment at the center for an illness, physical condition, or other medical problem.

(4)(3) Revoke or modify any order of the department except an order of discharge as often as conditions indicate it to be desirable;

(5) If the child was committed pursuant to division (A)(4) or (5) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code and has been institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility for the prescribed minimum periods of time under those divisions, discharge the child from its custody and control when it is satisfied that the discharge is consistent with the welfare of the individual and protection of the public. The department shall notify the committing court, in writing, that it is going to discharge the child at least fifteen days before the scheduled date of discharge and, upon the discharge, immediately shall certify the discharge in writing and transmit the certificate to the committing court.

(6)(4) If the child was committed pursuant to division (A)(4) or (5) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code and has been institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility for the prescribed minimum periods of time under those divisions AND IS PLACED ON SUPERVISED RELEASE PURSUANT TO SECTION 5139.51 of the Revised Code, assign the child to a family home, a group care facility, or other place maintained under public or private auspices, within or without this state, for necessary treatment and rehabilitation, the costs of which may be paid by the department, provided that the department shall notify the committing court, in writing, of the place and terms of the assignment at least fifteen days prior to the scheduled date of the assignment.

(D) The department of youth services shall notify the committing court of any order transferring the physical location of any child committed to it in accordance with section 5139.35 of the Revised Code. Upon the discharge from its custody and control, the department may petition the court for an order terminating its custody and control.

(E) If a child is released on parole under division (C)(1) of this section or is assigned to a family home, group care facility, or other place for treatment or rehabilitation under division (C)(6) of this section, the department shall comply with divisions (D) and (E) of section 2151.38 of the Revised Code relative to the child and shall send the committing court and the juvenile court of the county in which the child is placed a copy of the plan and the terms and conditions of the release or assignment that it fixed. The court of the county in which the child is placed may adopt the terms and conditions as an order of the court and may add any additional consistent terms and conditions it considers appropriate. Any violations of the terms and conditions established in its journal entry by the court of the county in which the child is placed shall be handled pursuant to division (C) of section 2151.38 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 5139.07. As a means of correcting the socially harmful tendencies of a child committed to it, the department of youth services may require participation by him THE CHILD in vocational, physical, educational, and corrective training and activities, and the conduct and modes of life that seem best adapted to rehabilitate him THE CHILD and fit him THE CHILD for return to full liberty without danger to the public welfare. This section does not permit the department to release a child committed to it from institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility, whichever is applicable, other than in accordance with sections 2151.38, 5139.06, and 5139.38, AND 5139.50 TO 5139.54 of the Revised Code.

The department may require a child committed to it to return to his THE CHILD'S home or to be placed in a foster care placement if it is authorized to make a placement of that nature under sections 2151.38, 5139.06, and 5139.38, AND 5139.50 TO 5139.54 of the Revised Code. Any placement of that nature shall be made in accordance with those sections. The legal residence of a child so placed by the department is the place the child is residing in accordance with a department order of placement. The school district responsible for payment of tuition on behalf of the child so placed shall be determined pursuant to section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 5139.08. The department of youth services may enter into an agreement with the director of rehabilitation and correction pursuant to which the department of youth services, in accordance with division (C)(3)(2) of section 5139.06 and section 5120.162 of the Revised Code, may transfer to a correctional medical center established by the department of rehabilitation and correction, children who are within its custody for diagnosis or treatment of an illness, physical condition, or other medical problem. The department of youth services may enter into any other agreements with the director of human services, the director of mental health, the director of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, the director of rehabilitation and correction, with the courts having probation officers or other public officials, and with private agencies or institutions for separate care or special treatment of children subject to the control of the department of youth services. The department of youth services may, upon the request of a juvenile court not having a regular probation officer, provide probation services for such court.

Upon request by the department of youth services, any public agency or group care facility established or administered by the state for the care and treatment of children and youth shall, consistent with its functions, accept and care for any child whose custody is vested in the department in the same manner as it would be required to do if custody had been vested by a court in such agency or group care facility. If the department has reasonable grounds to believe that any child or youth whose custody is vested in it is mentally ill or mentally retarded, the department may file an affidavit under section 5122.11 or 5123.76 of the Revised Code. The department's affidavit for admission of a child or youth to such institution shall be filed with the probate court of the county from which the child was committed to the department. Such court may request the probate court of the county in which the child is held to conduct the hearing on the application, in which case the court making such request shall bear the expenses of the proceeding. If the department files such an affidavit, the child or youth may be kept in such institution until a final decision on the affidavit is made by the appropriate court.

Sec. 5139.18. (A) The department of youth services is responsible for locating homes or jobs for children released from its institutions, for supervision of children released from its institutions, and for providing or arranging for the provision to those children of appropriate services that are required to facilitate their satisfactory community adjustment.

(B) The department of youth services shall exercise general supervision over all children who have been released on placement from any of the its institutions. The director of youth services, with the consent and approval of the board of county commissioners of any county, may contract with the department of human services of that county, if the department has assumed the administration of child welfare, the children services board of that county, the department of probation of that county established pursuant to section 2301.27 of the Revised Code, or the probation department or service established pursuant to sections 2151.01 to 2151.54 of the Revised Code for the provision of direct supervision and control over and the provision of supportive assistance to all children who have been released on placement into that county from any of its institutions, or, with the consent of the juvenile judge or the administrative judge of the juvenile court of any county, contract with any other public agency, institution, or organization that is qualified to provide the care and supervision that is required under the terms and conditions of the child's treatment plan for the provision of direct supervision and control over and the provision of supportive assistance to all children who have been released on placement into that county from any of its institutions.

(D)(C) Whenever any placement official has reasonable cause to believe that any child has violated the terms and conditions of his THE CHILD'S placement, the official may request, in writing, from the committing court or transferee court a custodial order, and, upon reasonable and probable cause, the court may order any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, or police officer to apprehend the child. A child so apprehended may be confined in the detention home of the county in which he THE CHILD is apprehended until further order of the court. IF A CHILD WHO WAS RELEASED BY THE RELEASE AUTHORITY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES VIOLATES THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE, THE PROVISIONS FOR ARREST AND DETENTION SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5139.52 of the Revised Code APPLY.

Sec. 5139.20. (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code that sets forth the minimum periods or period for which a child committed to the department of youth services is to be institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility or the procedures for the JUDICIAL RELEASE OR early release from institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility, the department may grant emergency releases to children confined in state juvenile institutions if the governor, upon request of the director of the department authorizes the director, in writing, to issue a declaration that an emergency overcrowding condition exists in all of the institutions in which males are confined, or in all of the institutions in which females are confined, that are under the control of the department. If the governor authorizes the issuance of a declaration, the director may issue the declaration. If the director issues the declaration, the director shall file a copy of it with the secretary of state, which copy shall be a public record. Upon the filing of the copy, the department is authorized to grant emergency releases to children within its custody subject to division (B) of this section. The authority to grant the emergency releases shall continue until the expiration of thirty days from the day on which the declaration was filed. The director shall not issue a declaration that an emergency overcrowding condition exists unless the director determines that no other method of alleviating the overcrowding condition is available.

(B)(1) If the department is authorized under division (A) of this section to grant emergency releases to children within its custody, the department shall determine which, if any, children to release under that authority only in accordance with this division and divisions (C), (D), and (E) of this section. The department, in determining which, if any, children to release, initially shall classify each child within its custody according to the degree of offense that the act for which the child is serving the period of institutionalization would have been if committed by an adult. The department then shall scrutinize individual children for emergency release, based upon their degree of offense, in accordance with the categories and the order of consideration set forth in division (B)(2) of this section. After scrutiny of all children within the particular category under consideration, the department shall designate individual children within that category to whom it wishes to grant an emergency release.

(2) The categories of children in the custody of the department that may be considered for emergency release under this section, and the order in which the categories shall be considered, are as follows:

(a) Initially, only children who are not serving a period of institutionalization for an act that would have been aggravated murder, murder, or a felony of the first, second, third, or fourth degree if committed by an adult or for an act that was committed before the effective date of this amendment and that would have been an aggravated felony of the first, second, or third degree if committed by an adult may be considered.

(b) When all children in the category described in division (B)(2)(a) of this section have been scrutinized and all children in that category who have been designated for emergency release under division (B)(1) of this section have been so released, then all children who are not serving a period of institutionalization for an act that would have been aggravated murder, murder, or a felony of the first or second degree if committed by an adult or for an act that was committed before the effective date of this amendment and that would have been an aggravated felony of the first or second degree if committed by an adult may be considered.

(c) When all children in the categories described in divisions (B)(2)(a) and (b) of this section have been scrutinized and all children in those categories who have been designated for emergency release under division (B)(1) of this section have been released, then all children who are not serving a term of institutionalization for an act that would have been aggravated murder, murder, or a felony of the first degree if committed by an adult or for an act that was committed before the effective date of this amendment and that would have been an aggravated felony of the first or second degree if committed by an adult may be considered.

(d) In no case shall the department consider for emergency release any child who is serving a term of institutionalization for an act that would have been aggravated murder, murder, or a felony of the first degree if committed by an adult or for an act that was committed before the effective date of this amendment and that would have been an aggravated felony of the first degree if committed by an adult, and in no case shall the department grant an emergency release to any such child pursuant to this section.

(C) An emergency release granted pursuant to this section shall consist of one of the following:

(1) A SUPERVISED release on parole under supervision TERMS and conditions that the department believes conducive to law-abiding conduct;

(2) A discharge of the child from the custody and control of the department if the department is satisfied that the discharge is consistent with the welfare of the individual and protection of the public;

(3) An assignment to a family home, a group care facility, or other place maintained under public or private auspices, within or without this state, for necessary treatment or rehabilitation, the costs of which may be paid by the department.

(D) If a child is granted an emergency release pursuant to this section, the child thereafter shall be considered to have been institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility for the prescribed minimum period of time or prescribed time under division (A)(4), (5), or (7) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code. The department shall retain legal custody of a child so released until it discharges the child or until its custody is terminated as otherwise provided by law.

(E)(1) If a child is granted an emergency release so that the child is released on parole SUPERVISED RELEASE or assigned to a family home, group care facility, or other place for treatment or rehabilitation, the department shall prepare a written treatment and rehabilitation plan for the child in accordance with division (D)(E) of section 2151.38 of the Revised Code, which shall include the terms and conditions of the child's release or assignment, and shall send the committing court and the juvenile court of the county in which the child is placed a copy of the plan and the terms and conditions that it fixed. The court of the county in which the child is placed may adopt the terms and conditions as an order of the court and may add any additional consistent terms and conditions it considers appropriate. If a child is released on parole SUPERVISED RELEASE or is assigned subject to specified terms and conditions and the court of the county in which the child is placed has reason to believe that the child has CHILD'S DEPORTMENT IS not deported himself or herself in accordance with any post-release terms and conditions established by the court in its journal entry, the court of the county in which the child is placed, in its discretion, may schedule a time for a hearing on whether the child violated any of the post-release terms and conditions. If the THAT court of the county in which the child is placed conducts a hearing and determines at the hearing that the child violated any of the post-release terms and conditions established in its journal entry, the court, if it determines that the violation of the terms and conditions was a serious violation, may order the child to be returned to the department of youth services for institutionalization or, in any case, may make any other disposition of the child authorized by law that the court considers proper. If the court of the county in which the child is placed orders the child to be returned to a department of youth services institution, the child shall remain institutionalized for a minimum period of three months.

(2) The department also shall file a written progress report with the committing court regarding each child granted an emergency release pursuant to this section at least once every thirty days unless specifically directed otherwise by the court. The report shall include the information required of reports described in division (E)(F) of section 2151.38 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 5139.32. (A) Whenever a child committed to the department of youth services is unable to benefit from the programs conducted by the department, as found under division (B) of this section, the RELEASE AUTHORITY OF THE department forthwith shall release or discharge such THE child from its jurisdiction and either return him THE CHILD to the committing court, provided that such THE court so consents or directs, or otherwise secure for him THE CHILD an environment more beneficial to his THE CHILD'S future development.

(B) The determination that a child is unable to benefit from the programs conducted by the department shall be made by the committing court on its own motion or upon application by the department or by a parent or the guardian of the person of the child, or, if the child has been institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility, whichever is applicable, for the prescribed minimum period set forth in section 2151.355 of the Revised Code and his THE CHILD'S commitment order, by the department itself.

Sec. 5139.35. (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section and division (C)(3)(2) of section 5139.06 of the Revised Code, the department of youth services shall not place a child committed to it pursuant to division (A)(6) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code or one committed to it pursuant to division (A)(4), (5), or (7) of that section who has not been institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility for the prescribed minimum periods or prescribed period of institutionalization under those divisions in an institution with a less restrictive setting than that in which the child was originally placed, other than an institution under the management and control of the department, without first obtaining the prior consent of the committing court.

(B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the department of youth services shall notify the committing court, in writing, of any placement of a child committed to it pursuant to division (A)(4), (5), or (7) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code who has been institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility for the prescribed minimum periods or prescribed period of institutionalization under those divisions in an institution with a less restrictive setting than that in which the child was originally placed, other than an institution under the management and control of the department, at least fifteen days before the scheduled date of placement.

(C) If, pursuant to division (C)(3)(2) of section 5139.06 of the Revised Code, the department of youth services transfers a child committed to it pursuant to division (A)(4), (5), (6), or (7) of section 2151.355 of the Revised Code to a correctional medical center established by the department of rehabilitation and correction, the department of youth services shall send the committing court a certified copy of the transfer order.

Sec. 5139.38. Within ninety days prior to the expiration of the prescribed minimum period of institutionalization of a felony delinquent committed to the department of youth services and with prior notification to the committing court, the department may transfer the felony delinquent to a community facility for a period of supervised treatment prior to ordering a release of the felony delinquent on parole SUPERVISED RELEASE or prior to the release of the felony delinquent on aftercare placement as described in section 5139.18 of the Revised Code. For purposes of transfers under this section, both of the following apply:

(A) The community facility may be a community corrections facility that has received a grant pursuant to section 5139.36 of the Revised Code, a community residential program with which the department has contracted for purposes of this section, or another private entity with which the department has contracted for purposes of this section. Division (E) of section 5139.36 of the Revised Code does not apply in connection with a transfer of a felony delinquent that is made to a community corrections facility pursuant to this section.

(B) During the period in which the felony delinquent is in the community facility, he THE FELONY DELINQUENT shall remain in the custody of the department.

Sec. 5139.43. (A) On and after January 1, 1995, the department of youth services shall operate a felony delinquent care and custody program with the remainder of the appropriation described in division (E) of section 5139.41 of the Revised Code. The program shall be operated in accordance with the formula developed pursuant to sections 5139.41 and 5139.42 of the Revised Code, subject to the conditions specified in this section, and in conjunction with the contingency program described in section 5139.45 of the Revised Code.

(B)(1) The department of youth services annually shall allocate to each county a portion of the remainder of the appropriation described in division (E) of section 5139.41 of the Revised Code. The portion to be allocated to each county shall be determined by multiplying the county's percentage determined under division (E) of section 5139.42 of the Revised Code by the amount of that remainder. The department shall divide the portion to be allocated to each county by twelve or, if in a particular fiscal year the felony delinquent care and custody program is in effect in a county less than twelve months, by the number of months the program is in effect in that county to determine the monthly allocation to that county.

(2)(a) Except as provided in division (B)(2)(b) of this section, the department shall reduce the monthly allocation for each fiscal year to each county as determined under division (B)(1) of this section by both of the following:

(i) Seventy-five per cent of the amount determined by multiplying the per diem cost for the care and custody of felony delinquents, as determined pursuant to division (D) of section 5139.42 of the Revised Code, by the number of felony delinquents who have been adjudicated delinquent children and, except as otherwise provided in divisions (B)(2)(a) and (3) of this section, who are in the care and custody of an institution pursuant to a commitment, OR recommitment, or revocation of a release on parole by the juvenile court of that county;

(ii) Fifty per cent of the amount determined by multiplying the per diem cost for the care and custody of felony delinquents, as determined pursuant to division (D) of section 5139.42 of the Revised Code, by the number of felony delinquents who have been adjudicated delinquent children and, except as otherwise provided in divisions (B)(2)(a) and (3) of this section, who are in the care and custody of a community corrections facility pursuant to a placement by the department with the consent of the juvenile court of that county as described in division (E) of section 5139.36 of the Revised Code.

Public safety beds shall not be included in the number of felony delinquents who have been adjudicated delinquent children by a juvenile court in making the seventy-five per cent or fifty per cent reductions described in divisions (B)(2)(a)(i) and (ii) of this section. The department shall bear the care and custody costs associated with public safety beds.

(b) If a county has exhausted its current and future monthly allocations for the current fiscal year as determined under division (B)(1) of this section, the department shall bear the remainder of the amounts calculated under divisions (B)(2)(a)(i) and (ii) of this section for the care and custody of felony delinquents who are in the care and custody of an institution pursuant to a commitment, OR recommitment, or revocation of a release on parole or in the care and custody of a community corrections facility by debiting, in accordance with division (C)(2) of section 5139.45 of the Revised Code, the amount of the appropriation for care and custody of felony delinquents that was set aside for the contingency program pursuant to division (A) of section 5139.41 of the Revised Code.

(3)(a) Subject to divisions (B)(2)(b) and (4) of this section and subject to the special provisions of division (B)(3)(b) of this section pertaining to monthly allocations under divisions (B)(1) and (2)(a) of this section for the month of June, after the application of division (B)(2)(a) of this section and on or before the fifteenth day of the following month, the department shall disburse to the juvenile court of each county the remainder of the monthly allocation of that county as determined pursuant to divisions (B)(1) and (2)(a) of this section.

(b)(i) For the monthly allocation for the month of June of each fiscal year, the department shall estimate for each county the number of felony delinquents described in divisions (B)(2)(a)(i) and (ii) of this section rather than use the actual number of those felony delinquents, shall use the estimated number of those felony delinquents in making the seventy-five per cent and fifty per cent reductions described in those divisions, and shall encumber the remainder of the estimated monthly allocation of each county for the month of June, as determined pursuant to divisions (B)(1), (2)(a), and (3)(b)(i) of this section, for disbursement in the month of July of the next fiscal year in accordance with division (B)(3)(b)(ii) of this section. If the total of the seventy-five per cent and fifty per cent reductions described in division (B)(2)(a) of this section exceeds the estimated monthly allocation of a county for the month of June as so determined, the department may cover the amount of the excess by debiting, in accordance with division (C)(2) of section 5139.45 of the Revised Code, the amount of the appropriation for care and custody of felony delinquents that was set aside for the contingency program pursuant to division (A) of section 5139.41 of the Revised Code.

(ii) In the month of July of each new fiscal year, the department shall reconcile for each county the estimated reductions that occurred pursuant to divisions (B)(2)(a) and (3)(b)(i) of this section and the reductions that should have occurred pursuant to division (B)(2)(a) of this section by using the actual number of felony delinquents described in divisions (B)(2)(a)(i) and (ii) of this section for the month of June of the prior fiscal year. After that reconciliation occurs, subject to divisions (B)(2)(b) and (4) of this section, the department shall disburse to each county the remainder of its monthly allocation for the month of June of the prior fiscal year as adjusted pursuant to the reconciliation and division (B)(3)(b)(ii) of this section.

In connection with the adjustments in the monthly allocations for the month of June of the prior fiscal year, if the encumbered monthly allocations of one or more counties for that month exceed or are less than the monthly allocations for that month to which those counties are entitled under divisions (B)(1) and (2)(a) of this section by using the actual number of felony delinquents described in divisions (B)(2)(a)(i) and (ii) of this section rather than the estimated number of those felony delinquents, the department may make the necessary adjustments in the monthly allocations of those counties for the month of June of the prior fiscal year within the total of the moneys for monthly allocations for that month that were encumbered for all of the counties. If that total amount is insufficient to make the requisite monthly allocations for that month to all counties in accordance with divisions (B)(1) and (2)(a) of this section, the department shall cover the insufficiency by debiting, in accordance with division (C)(2) of section 5139.45 of the Revised Code, the amount of the appropriation for care and custody of felony delinquents that was set aside for the contingency program pursuant to division (A) of section 5139.41 of the Revised Code.

(4) Notwithstanding the general disbursement requirements of division (B)(3)(a) and (b)(ii) of this section, if a juvenile court fails to comply with division (C)(3)(d) of this section and the department is not able to reconcile fiscal accounting as a consequence of that failure, the department is not required to make any disbursement in accordance with division (B)(3)(a) or (b)(ii) of this section to the juvenile court until it complies with division (C)(3)(d) of this section.

(C)(1) Each juvenile court shall use the moneys disbursed to it by the department of youth services pursuant to division (B) of this section in accordance with division (C)(2) of this section and shall transmit the moneys to the county treasurer for deposit in accordance with this division. The county treasurer shall create in the county treasury a fund that shall be known as the felony delinquent care and custody fund and shall deposit in that fund the moneys disbursed to the juvenile court pursuant to division (B) of this section. The moneys in the fund shall not be commingled with any other county funds; shall not be used for any capital construction projects; upon an order of the juvenile court and subject to appropriation by the board of county commissioners, shall be disbursed to the juvenile court for use in accordance with division (C)(2) of this section; shall not revert to the county general fund at the end of any fiscal year; and shall carry over in the felony delinquent care and custody fund from the end of any fiscal year to the next fiscal year. The moneys in the fund shall be in addition to, and shall not be used to reduce, any usual annual increase in county funding that the juvenile court is eligible to receive or the current level of county funding of the juvenile court and of any programs or services for delinquent children, unruly children, or juvenile traffic offenders.

(2)(a) A juvenile court shall use the moneys in its felony delinquent care and custody fund as follows:

(i) To provide programs and services for the training, treatment, or rehabilitation of felony delinquents that are alternatives to their commitment to the department, including, but not limited to, community residential programs, day treatment centers, services within the home, and electronic monitoring;

(ii) In connection with training, treatment, rehabilitation, early intervention, or other programs or services for any delinquent child, unruly child, or juvenile traffic offender who is under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. For purposes of division (C)(2)(a)(ii) of this section, a delinquent child includes a child who is so adjudicated for the commission of an act that if committed by an adult would be a misdemeanor or felony.

(b) Each juvenile court shall comply with division (C)(3)(d) of this section as implemented by the department. If a juvenile court fails to comply with that division and the department is not able to reconcile fiscal accounting as a consequence of the failure, the provisions of division (B)(4) of this section shall apply.

(3) In accordance with rules adopted by the department pursuant to section 5139.04 of the Revised Code, each juvenile court shall do all of the following:

(a) File with the department a plan pertaining to the use, upon an order of the juvenile court and subject to appropriation by the board of county commissioners, of the moneys in its felony delinquent care and custody fund for specified programs and services as described in division (C)(2)(a) of this section. The plan shall include a method of ensuring equal access for minority youth to the programs and services.

(b) By the thirty-first day of January of each year, file with the department a report containing all of the statistical and other information for each month of the prior calendar year that will permit the department to prepare the report described in division (D) of this section;

(c) If the department requires the juvenile court to prepare monthly statistical reports for use under section 5139.42 of the Revised Code and to submit the reports on forms provided by the department, file those reports with the department on the forms so provided;

(d) If the department requires the juvenile court to participate in any fiscal monitoring or other program that is conducted by the department to ensure compliance by the juvenile court and its county with division (C) of this section, participate in the fiscal monitoring or other program and fully comply with any guidelines for the performance of audits adopted by the department pursuant to that program and all requests made by the department pursuant to that program for information necessary to reconcile fiscal accounting.

(D) On or prior to the first day of April of each year, the department of youth services shall submit to the joint legislative committee on juvenile corrections overcrowding a report that pertains to the operation of sections 5139.41 to 5139.45 of the Revised Code during the immediately preceding calendar year and that includes, but is not limited to, the following:

(1) A description of the programs and services that were financed under those sections in each county;

(2) The number of felony delinquents, other delinquent children, unruly children, and juvenile traffic offenders served by the programs and services in each county;

(3) The total number of felony level delinquency children adjudicated in each juvenile court to be delinquent children for acts that if committed by an adult would be a felony;

(4) The total number of felony delinquents who were committed by the juvenile court of each county to the department and who were in the care and custody of an institution or a community corrections facility;

(5) A breakdown of the felony delinquents described in division (D)(4) of this section on the basis of the types and degrees of felonies committed, the ages of the felony delinquents at the time they committed the felonies, and the sex and race of the felony delinquents.

Sec. 5139.50. (A) THE RELEASE AUTHORITY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES IS HEREBY CREATED AS AN INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION IN THE DEPARTMENT. THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL CONSIST OF FIVE MEMBERS WHO ARE APPOINTED BY THE DIRECTOR OF YOUTH SERVICES AND WHO HAVE THE QUALIFICATIONS SPECIFIED IN DIVISION (B) OF THIS SECTION. THE MEMBERS OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL DEVOTE THEIR FULL TIME TO THE DUTIES OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY AND SHALL NEITHER SEEK NOR HOLD OTHER PUBLIC OFFICE. THE MEMBERS SHALL BE IN THE UNCLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE.

(B) A PERSON APPOINTED AS A MEMBER OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL HAVE A BACHELOR'S DEGREE FROM AN ACCREDITED COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY AND SHALL HAVE THE SKILLS, TRAINING, OR EXPERIENCE NECESSARY TO ANALYZE ISSUES OF LAW, ADMINISTRATION, AND PUBLIC POLICY. THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL REPRESENT, INSOFAR AS PRACTICABLE, THE DIVERSITY FOUND IN THE CHILDREN IN THE LEGAL CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES.

IN APPOINTING THE MEMBERS, THE DIRECTOR SHALL ENSURE THAT THE APPOINTMENTS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

(1) AT LEAST FOUR MEMBERS WHO HAVE FIVE OR MORE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE, JUVENILE JUSTICE, OR AN EQUIVALENT RELEVANT PROFESSION;

(2) AT LEAST ONE MEMBER WHO HAS EXPERIENCE IN VICTIM SERVICES OR ADVOCACY OR WHO HAS BEEN A VICTIM OF A CRIME OR IS A FAMILY MEMBER OF A VICTIM;

(3) AT LEAST ONE MEMBER WHO HAS EXPERIENCE IN DIRECT CARE SERVICES TO DELINQUENT CHILDREN;

(4) AT LEAST ONE MEMBER WHO HOLDS A JURIS DOCTOR DEGREE FROM AN ACCREDITED COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY.

(C) THE INITIAL APPOINTMENTS OF MEMBERS OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL BE FOR A TERM OF SIX YEARS FOR THE CHAIRPERSON AND ONE MEMBER, A TERM OF FOUR YEARS FOR TWO MEMBERS, AND A TERM OF TWO YEARS FOR ONE MEMBER. THEREAFTER, MEMBERS SHALL BE APPOINTED FOR SIX-YEAR TERMS. AT THE CONCLUSION OF A TERM, A MEMBER SHALL HOLD OFFICE UNTIL THE APPOINTMENT AND QUALIFICATION OF THE MEMBER'S SUCCESSOR. THE DIRECTOR SHALL FILL A VACANCY OCCURRING BEFORE THE EXPIRATION OF A TERM FOR THE REMAINDER OF THAT TERM. MEMBERS MAY BE REAPPOINTED. A MEMBER MAY BE REMOVED FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN AFTER A FULL AND OPEN HEARING BY THE RELEASE AUTHORITY, IF REQUESTED BY THE MEMBER, AT WHICH THE MEMBER HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND TO THE ALLEGATIONS THAT PROVIDE THE BASIS FOR A CALL FOR REMOVAL.

(D) THE DIRECTOR SHALL DESIGNATE AS CHAIRPERSON OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY ONE OF THE MEMBERS WHO HAS EXPERIENCE IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE, JUVENILE JUSTICE, OR AN EQUIVALENT RELEVANT PROFESSION. THE CHAIRPERSON SHALL HAVE FULL AUTHORITY OVER THE ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY AND SHALL ACT AS THE APPOINTING AUTHORITY FOR ALL STAFF OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY. THE CHAIRPERSON SHALL EMPLOY STAFF AS NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT THE DUTIES OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY, INCLUDING HEARING REPRESENTATIVES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HEARING OF CASES ON REVIEW AND PERSONS TO PROVIDE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT. THE CHAIRPERSON SHALL SERVE AS THE OFFICIAL SPOKESPERSON FOR THE RELEASE AUTHORITY.

(E) A MAJORITY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL CONSTITUTE A QUORUM FOR TRANSACTING THE OFFICIAL BUSINESS OF THE AUTHORITY. THE ACTIONS OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL BE DETERMINED BY A MAJORITY VOTE OF THE QUORUM.

(F) THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL DO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:

(1) SERVE AS THE FINAL AND SOLE AUTHORITY FOR MAKING DECISIONS, IN THE INTERESTS OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE CHILDREN INVOLVED, REGARDING THE RELEASE, REVOCATION OF RELEASE, AND DISCHARGE OF ALL CHILDREN COMMITTED TO THE LEGAL CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES, EXCEPT CHILDREN PLACED ON JUDICIAL RELEASE OR EARLY RELEASE BY A JUVENILE COURT, CHILDREN WHO HAVE NOT COMPLETED A PRESCRIBED MINIMUM PERIOD OF TIME OR PRESCRIBED PERIOD OF TIME IN A SECURE FACILITY, OR CHILDREN WHO ARE REQUIRED TO REMAIN IN A SECURE FACILITY UNTIL THEY ATTAIN TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE;

(2) ESTABLISH WRITTEN POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR CONDUCTING A PERIODIC REVIEW OF THE STATUS OF EACH CHILD IN THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT, SETTING OR MODIFYING DATES OF RELEASE AND DISCHARGE FOR EACH CHILD, SPECIFYING THE DURATION, TERMS, AND CONDITIONS OF RELEASE TO BE CARRIED OUT IN SUPERVISED RELEASE, AND GIVING A CHILD NOTICE OF ALL REVIEWS;

(3) PROVIDE A CHILD WHOSE SUPERVISED RELEASE MAY BE REVOKED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPEAR PERSONALLY BEFORE THE RELEASE AUTHORITY FOR A REVOCATION HEARING, UNLESS THE SAFETY OF A VICTIM, WITNESS, OR MEMBER OR THE SAFETY OF THE CHILD MAY BE COMPROMISED;

(4) MAINTAIN RECORDS OF ITS OFFICIAL ACTIONS, DECISIONS, ORDERS, AND HEARING SUMMARIES AND MAKE THE RECORDS ACCESSIBLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH DIVISION (D) OF SECTION 5139.05 of the Revised Code;

(5) COOPERATE WITH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE AGENCIES, COMMUNITIES, PRIVATE GROUPS, AND INDIVIDUALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF ITS SERVICES;

(6) COLLECT, DEVELOP, AND MAINTAIN STATISTICAL INFORMATION REGARDING ITS SERVICES AND DECISIONS;

(7) SUBMIT AN ANNUAL REPORT TO THE DIRECTOR INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY, AN EVALUATION OF ITS EFFECTIVENESS, RECOMMENDATIONS FOR STATUTORY, BUDGETARY, OR OTHER CHANGES NECESSARY TO IMPROVE ITS EFFECTIVENESS, AND ANY OTHER INFORMATION REQUIRED BY THE DIRECTOR;

(8) ADOPT RULES AND WRITTEN POLICIES AND PROCEDURES TO GOVERN ITS OPERATIONS.

(G) THE RELEASE AUTHORITY MAY DO THE FOLLOWING:

(1) CONDUCT INQUIRIES, INVESTIGATIONS, AND REVIEWS AND HOLD HEARINGS AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS NECESSARY TO PROPERLY DISCHARGE ITS RESPONSIBILITIES;

(2) ISSUE SUBPOENAS, ENFORCEABLE IN A COURT OF LAW, TO COMPEL A PERSON TO APPEAR, GIVE TESTIMONY, OR PRODUCE DOCUMENTARY INFORMATION OR OTHER TANGIBLE ITEMS RELATING TO A MATTER UNDER INQUIRY, INVESTIGATION, REVIEW, OR HEARING;

(3) ADMINISTER OATHS AND RECEIVE TESTIMONY OF PERSONS UNDER OATH;

(4) REQUEST ASSISTANCE, SERVICES, AND INFORMATION FROM A PUBLIC AGENCY TO ENABLE THE AUTHORITY TO DISCHARGE ITS RESPONSIBILITIES;

(5) REQUEST FROM A PUBLIC AGENCY OR OTHER ENTITY THAT PROVIDES OR HAS PROVIDED SERVICES TO A CHILD COMMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT'S LEGAL CUSTODY INFORMATION TO ENABLE THE RELEASE AUTHORITY TO PROPERLY DISCHARGE ITS RESPONSIBILITIES WITH RESPECT TO THAT CHILD;

(6) REQUIRE VICTIM RESTITUTION AS A TERM AND CONDITION OF RELEASE AND DISCHARGE;

(7) REQUIRE THAT THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF A CHILD'S RELEASE BE ENFORCED DURING THE PERIOD OF SUPERVISED RELEASE UNTIL DISCHARGE;

(8) CAUSE THE ARREST OF A CHILD ON SUPERVISED RELEASE WHO MAY BE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION OF RELEASE;

(9) EXERCISE ANY OTHER POWERS NECESSARY TO DISCHARGE ITS RESPONSIBILITIES.

(H) THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL ADOPT SPECIFIC WRITTEN POLICIES GOVERNING THE DISCHARGE OF ITS RESPONSIBILITIES EITHER BY THE FULL MEMBERSHIP OF THE AUTHORITY OR BY THE DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY TO ONE OR MORE MEMBERS OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY OR TO HEARING REPRESENTATIVES. THE POLICY SHALL REQUIRE THAT A HEARING BE CONDUCTED BY NOT FEWER THAN TWO MEMBERS OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY, TWO HEARING REPRESENTATIVES, OR A COMBINATION OF A MEMBER OF THE AUTHORITY AND A HEARING REPRESENTATIVE.

(I) THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL NOT DELEGATE ITS AUTHORITY TO MAKE FINAL DECISIONS REGARDING POLICY OR REGARDING THE RELEASE OF A CHILD OR THE REVOCATION OF A RELEASE.

(J) THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL ADOPT A WRITTEN POLICY AND PROCEDURES GOVERNING APPEALS OF ITS DECISIONS. THE POLICY SHALL PROVIDE THAT A CHILD MAY APPEAL TO THE FULL RELEASE AUTHORITY A DECISION DENYING RELEASE OR DISCHARGE OR A DECISION FOR REVOCATION MADE AT A HEARING CONDUCTED BY A PANEL THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY. THE POLICY ALSO SHALL PROVIDE THAT IF A DECISION DENYING RELEASE OR DISCHARGE OR A DECISION FOR REVOCATION IS MADE BY THE FULL RELEASE AUTHORITY, THE CHILD MAY REQUEST ONE APPEAL HEARING AT WHICH THE CHILD SHALL BE AFFORDED A FINAL OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT NEW OR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELATED TO ANY OF THE REASONS ENUMERATED BY THE RELEASE AUTHORITY IN THE DECISION UNDER APPEAL. THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL CONSIDER AN APPEAL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE POLICY AND PROCEDURE ESTABLISHED UNDER THIS DIVISION.

(K) THE LEGAL STAFF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES SHALL PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO THE RELEASE AUTHORITY IN THE FORMULATION OF POLICY AND IN ITS HANDLING OF INDIVIDUAL CASES AND SHALL PROVIDE LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR THE RELEASE AUTHORITY WHEN NECESSARY. THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES SHALL PROVIDE THE RELEASE AUTHORITY WITH A BUDGET SUFFICIENT TO PROPERLY PERFORM ITS OBLIGATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES, SUBJECT TO ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROLS.

Sec. 5139.51. (A) THE RELEASE AUTHORITY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES SHALL CONDUCT PERIODIC REVIEWS OF THE CASE OF EACH CHILD WHO IS IN THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES AND WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR SUPERVISED RELEASE OR DISCHARGE AFTER COMPLETING THE MINIMUM PERIOD OF TIME OR PERIOD OF TIME IN A SECURE FACILITY PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMITTING COURT. THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL DETERMINE THE DATE ON WHICH A CHILD MAY BE PLACED ON SUPERVISED RELEASE OR DISCHARGED. IT SHALL SET TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE FOR EACH CHILD PLACED ON SUPERVISED RELEASE. WHEN IT ISSUES A DECISION THAT GRANTS OR DENIES RELEASE OR DISCHARGE FOR A CHILD, IT SHALL PROVIDE THE CHILD WITH A WRITTEN RECORD OF THE REASONS FOR THE DECISION.

(B) WHEN THE RELEASE AUTHORITY DECIDES TO PLACE A CHILD ON SUPERVISED RELEASE, IT SHALL PREPARE A WRITTEN DOCUMENT THAT SPECIFIES THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS UPON WHICH THE CHILD IS RELEASED FROM A SECURE FACILITY TO SUPERVISED RELEASE. THE CHILD SHALL SIGN A COPY OF THE DOCUMENT TO INDICATE THE CHILD'S AGREEMENT TO ABIDE BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE. THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL KEEP THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT IN THE CHILD'S FILE AND PROVIDE A COPY TO THE CHILD, THE EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT ASSIGNED TO SUPERVISE AND ASSIST THE CHILD ON RELEASE, AND THE VICTIM OR VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE IF THAT PERSON HAS REQUESTED NOTICE PURSUANT TO SECTION 5139.56 of the Revised Code.

(C) IN ADDITION TO REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE REASONABLY RELATED TO THE CHILD'S PRIOR PATTERN OF CRIMINAL OR DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR AND THE PREVENTION OF FURTHER CRIMINAL OR DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR, THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL SPECIFY THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS FOR EACH CHILD WHOM IT RELEASES:

(1) THE CHILD SHALL OBSERVE THE LAW.

(2) THE CHILD SHALL MAINTAIN APPROPRIATE CONTACT, AS SPECIFIED IN THE WRITTEN DOCUMENT FOR THAT CHILD, WITH THE EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT ASSIGNED TO SUPERVISE AND ASSIST THE CHILD.

(3) IF THE CHILD'S RESIDENCE CHANGES, THE CHILD SHALL NOTIFY THE EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT ASSIGNED TO SUPERVISE AND ASSIST THE CHILD AND PROVIDE APPROPRIATE INFORMATION REGARDING THE CHILD'S NEW RESIDENCE ADDRESS.

(D) THE EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT ASSIGNED TO SUPERVISE AND ASSIST A CHILD ON RELEASE MAY SUBMIT A WRITTEN REQUEST TO THE RELEASE AUTHORITY FOR MODIFICATION OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE CHILD'S SUPERVISED RELEASE, OTHER THAN THE TERMS SPECIFIED IN DIVISION (C) OF THIS SECTION. THE RELEASE AUTHORITY MAY GRANT A MODIFICATION IN WRITING WITHOUT A HEARING IF THE MODIFICATION IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE CHILD. THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL KEEP THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT SPECIFYING MODIFICATIONS TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE CHILD'S SUPERVISED RELEASE IN THE CHILD'S FILE AND SHALL GIVE WRITTEN NOTICE OF THE MODIFICATIONS TO THE CHILD, THE EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT ASSIGNED TO SUPERVISE AND ASSIST THE CHILD ON RELEASE, AND THE VICTIM OR VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE IF THAT PERSON HAS REQUESTED NOTICE.

(E) THE PERIOD OF A CHILD'S SUPERVISED RELEASE MAY EXTEND FROM THE DATE OF RELEASE FROM A SECURE FACILITY UNTIL THE CHILD ATTAINS TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE. IF THE PERIOD OF SUPERVISED RELEASE EXTENDS BEYOND ONE YEAR AFTER THE DATE OF RELEASE OR AFTER ANY MINIMUM PERIOD OR PERIOD OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION REQUIRED BY LAW, THE CHILD MAY REQUEST IN WRITING THAT THE RELEASE AUTHORITY CONDUCT A DISCHARGE REVIEW AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE ONE-YEAR PERIOD OR THE MINIMUM PERIOD OR PERIOD. IF THE CHILD SO REQUESTS, THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL CONDUCT A DISCHARGE REVIEW AND GIVE THE CHILD ITS DECISION IN WRITING. THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL NOT GRANT A DISCHARGE PRIOR TO THE DISCHARGE DATE IF IT FINDS GOOD CAUSE FOR RETAINING THE CHILD IN THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT UNTIL THE DISCHARGE DATE. A CHILD MAY REQUEST AN ADDITIONAL DISCHARGE REVIEW SIX MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF A PREVIOUS DISCHARGE REVIEW DECISION, BUT NOT MORE THAN ONCE DURING ANY SIX-MONTH PERIOD AFTER THE DATE OF A PREVIOUS DISCHARGE REVIEW DECISION.

(F) WHEN THE RELEASE AUTHORITY PLACES A CHILD ON SUPERVISED RELEASE OR DISCHARGES A CHILD, IT SHALL GIVE NOTICE OF THE SUPERVISED RELEASE AND ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS OR OF THE DISCHARGE TO THE COURT THAT COMMITTED THE CHILD TO THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT.

Sec. 5139.52. (A) THE RELEASE AUTHORITY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES MAY REVOKE THE SUPERVISED RELEASE OF A CHILD AFTER A HEARING IF IT FINDS THAT THE CHILD HAS VIOLATED THE LAW OR ANY TERM OR CONDITION OF THE CHILD'S SUPERVISED RELEASE.

(B) AT ANY TIME DURING A CHILD'S SUPERVISED RELEASE, IF THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR OR THE EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT ASSIGNED TO SUPERVISE AND ASSIST THE CHILD HAS REASONABLE GROUNDS TO BELIEVE THAT THE CHILD HAS VIOLATED A CONDITION OR TERM OF THE SUPERVISED RELEASE, THE ADMINISTRATOR OR EMPLOYEE MAY ISSUE A SUMMONS THAT REQUIRES THE CHILD TO APPEAR FOR A HEARING TO ANSWER CHARGES OF THE ALLEGED VIOLATION. THE SUMMONS SHALL CONTAIN A BRIEF STATEMENT OF THE ALLEGED VIOLATION, INCLUDING THE DATE AND PLACE OF THE VIOLATION, AND SHALL REQUIRE THE CHILD TO APPEAR FOR A HEARING BEFORE THE RELEASE AUTHORITY AT A SPECIFIC DATE, TIME, AND PLACE. THE SUMMONS MAY BE PERSONALLY SERVED BY AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES. THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL REGARD THE FAILURE OF A CHILD TO APPEAR FOR THE HEARING STATED IN THE SUMMONS AS A VIOLATION OF THE CHILD'S SUPERVISED RELEASE.

(C)(1) AT ANY TIME WHILE A CHILD IS ON SUPERVISED RELEASE, A MEMBER OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY OR A STAFF MEMBER DESIGNATED BY THE DIRECTOR OF YOUTH SERVICES PURSUANT TO SECTION 5139.53 of the Revised Code MAY ISSUE, OR CAUSE TO BE ISSUED, A WARRANT FOR THE ARREST OF A CHILD FOR THE VIOLATION OF A CONDITION OR TERM OF THE CHILD'S SUPERVISED RELEASE. THE WARRANT SHALL SET FORTH THAT, IN THE GOOD FAITH JUDGMENT OF THE MEMBER OR STAFF MEMBER, THE CHILD HAS VIOLATED A TERM OR CONDITION OF THE CHILD'S SUPERVISED RELEASE, SHALL STATE THE BASIS FOR THAT BELIEF, AND SHALL ORDER THAT THE CHILD BE TAKEN TO AN APPROPRIATE PLACE OF SECURE DETENTION PENDING A PROBABLE CAUSE DETERMINATION.

(2) A STAFF MEMBER DESIGNATED BY THE DIRECTOR PURSUANT TO SECTION 5139.53 of the Revised Code, A PEACE OFFICER, OR ANY OTHER OFFICER WITH THE POWER TO ARREST MAY EXECUTE A WARRANT ISSUED UNDER THIS SECTION AND TAKE THE CHILD INTO SECURE CUSTODY.

(3) IF THE PERSON ORDERED TO BE TAKEN TO A PLACE OF SECURE DETENTION IS EIGHTEEN, NINETEEN, OR TWENTY YEARS OF AGE, THE PERSON MAY BE CONFINED IN THE JAIL OF THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE PERSON IS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. IF THE PERSON ORDERED TO BE TAKEN TO A PLACE OF SECURE DETENTION IS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, THE PERSON MAY BE CONFINED IN THE NEAREST JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITY.

(D) A STAFF MEMBER DESIGNATED BY THE DIRECTOR OF YOUTH SERVICES PURSUANT TO SECTION 5139.53 of the Revised Code, A PEACE OFFICER, OR ANY OTHER OFFICER WITH THE POWER TO ARREST MAY ARREST WITHOUT A WARRANT AND TAKE INTO SECURE CUSTODY A CHILD IN THE LEGAL CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT IN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING CIRCUMSTANCES:

(1) THE CHILD HAS COMMITTED OR IS COMMITTING AN OFFENSE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE STAFF MEMBER, PEACE OFFICER, OR OTHER OFFICER.

(2) THERE IS PROBABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THE CHILD HAS VIOLATED A TERM OR CONDITION OF SUPERVISED RELEASE AND THAT THE CHILD IS LEAVING OR IS ABOUT TO LEAVE THE STATE.

(3) THE CHILD HAS FAILED TO APPEAR BEFORE THE RELEASE AUTHORITY PURSUANT TO A SUMMONS OR FAILED TO REPORT TO A SECURE FACILITY UPON THE ORDER OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY.

(4) THE ARREST OF THE CHILD IS NECESSARY TO PREVENT PHYSICAL HARM TO ANOTHER PERSON OR TO THE CHILD.

(E) AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT ASSIGNED TO SUPERVISE AND ASSIST A CHILD WHILE ON SUPERVISED RELEASE OR ANOTHER STAFF MEMBER DESIGNATED BY THE DIRECTOR OF YOUTH SERVICES PURSUANT TO SECTION 5139.53 of the Revised Code, AS APPROPRIATE, PROMPTLY SHALL NOTIFY THE RELEASE AUTHORITY IN WRITING WHEN A SUMMONS OR WARRANT IS SERVED OR AN ARREST IS MADE PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION AND SHALL SPECIFY IN DETAIL HOW THE CHILD HAS VIOLATED THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE.

(F) WHEN A CHILD COMES BEFORE THE RELEASE AUTHORITY UPON A SUMMONS, WARRANT, OR ARREST BASED UPON AN ALLEGED VIOLATION OF A TERM OR CONDITION OF THE CHILD'S SUPERVISED RELEASE, THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL HOLD A HEARING IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULES ADOPTED UNDER THIS SECTION. THE RELEASE AUTHORITY IS NOT REQUIRED TO HOLD A HEARING IF THE CHILD ADMITS TO, IS ADJUDICATED DELINQUENT FOR, OR IS CONVICTED OF OR PLEADS GUILTY TO AN OFFENSE COMMITTED WHILE ON SUPERVISED RELEASE AND UPON WHICH THE VIOLATION OF THE SUPERVISED RELEASE IS BASED.

IF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY FAILS TO MAKE A DETERMINATION WITHIN A REASONABLE TIME IN THE CASE OF A CHILD ALLEGED TO HAVE VIOLATED A TERM OR CONDITION OF SUPERVISED RELEASE, THE CHILD SHALL BE RELEASED FROM CUSTODY UNDER THE CONTINUING TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE CHILD'S SUPERVISED RELEASE.

(G) IF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY DETERMINES THAT A VIOLATION OF A TERM OR CONDITION OF THE CHILD'S SUPERVISED RELEASE HAS OCCURRED, THE RELEASE AUTHORITY AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE HEARING SHALL ADVISE THE CHILD AND OTHER PARTIES OF ITS FINDINGS AND DECISION. IF A VIOLATION OF SUPERVISED RELEASE IS FOUND, THE RELEASE AUTHORITY MAY DO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

(1) ORDER THAT THE CHILD BE RETURNED TO A SECURE FACILITY OR OTHER DESIGNATED SECURE OR NONSECURE RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM INCLUDING A COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS FACILITY;

(2) MODIFY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE CHILD'S SUPERVISED RELEASE, INCLUDING REQUIRING A MORE INTENSIVE DEGREE OF SUPERVISION, AND RETURN THE YOUTH TO THE COMMUNITY.

(H) IF A CHILD VIOLATES THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE BY ABSCONDING FROM SUPERVISED RELEASE, THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR SHALL REPORT THE ABSCONDING TO THE RELEASE AUTHORITY IN WRITING, AND THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL ENTER AN ORDER DECLARING THE CHILD TO BE A YOUTH VIOLATOR AT LARGE. WHEN A YOUTH VIOLATOR AT LARGE IS APPREHENDED AND IS AVAILABLE FOR RETURN TO THE DEPARTMENT, THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR, UPON BEING ADVISED OF THE APPREHENSION, SHALL RECOMMEND TO THE RELEASE AUTHORITY THAT THE CHILD BE RETURNED TO A SECURE FACILITY, BE RETURNED TO A DESIGNATED SECURE OR NONSECURE RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM, INCLUDING A COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS FACILITY, OR BE RESTORED TO SUPERVISED RELEASE ACCORDING TO NEW TERMS AND CONDITIONS. IF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY DOES NOT ORDER THAT THE CHILD BE RETURNED TO SUPERVISION ACCORDING TO NEW TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE, THE AUTHORITY SHALL ORDER THAT THE CHILD BE RETURNED TO A SECURE FACILITY OR OTHER DESIGNATED SECURE OR NONSECURE RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM, INCLUDING A COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS FACILITY.

(I) IF A CHILD IS RETURNED TO A SECURE FACILITY OR OTHER DESIGNATED SECURE OR NONSECURE RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM, INCLUDING A COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS FACILITY, BECAUSE THE RELEASE AUTHORITY REVOKED THE CHILD'S SUPERVISED RELEASE, THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES SHALL CONSIDER THE CHILD TO BE A PUBLIC SAFETY BED FOR PURPOSES OF THIS CHAPTER.

(J) THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES, IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER 119. of the Revised Code, SHALL ADOPT RULES ESTABLISHING PROCEDURES FOR A REVOCATION HEARING UNDER THIS SECTION.

Sec. 5139.53. (A) THE DIRECTOR OF YOUTH SERVICES SHALL DESIGNATE CERTAIN EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES, INCLUDING REGIONAL ADMINISTRATORS, AS PERSONS WHO ARE AUTHORIZED TO DO BOTH OF THE FOLLOWING:

(1) ARREST CHILDREN IN THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT WHO ARE VIOLATING OR HAVE VIOLATED THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE;

(2) CARRY A FIREARM ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT WHILE ON DUTY FOR THEIR PROTECTION IN CARRYING OUT OFFICIAL DUTIES.

(B) AN EMPLOYEE WHO IS AUTHORIZED TO CARRY A FIREARM IN THE DISCHARGE OF OFFICIAL DUTIES, WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF RECEIVING PERMISSION TO CARRY A FIREARM, SHALL SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE A BASIC FIREARM TRAINING PROGRAM THAT IS CONDUCTED AT A TRAINING SCHOOL APPROVED BY THE OHIO PEACE OFFICER TRAINING COUNCIL AND THAT IS SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO THE BASIC FIREARM TRAINING PROGRAM FOR PEACE OFFICERS CONDUCTED AT THE OHIO PEACE OFFICER TRAINING ACADEMY AND RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE OF SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF THAT PROGRAM FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE OHIO PEACE OFFICER TRAINING COUNCIL. AN EMPLOYEE AUTHORIZED TO CARRY A FIREARM WHO DOES NOT SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE A BASIC FIREARM TRAINING PROGRAM WITHIN THE SIX-MONTH PERIOD AFTER RECEIVING AUTHORIZATION TO CARRY A FIREARM SHALL NOT CARRY A FIREARM IN THE DISCHARGE OF OFFICIAL DUTIES UNTIL THE EMPLOYEE HAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED A BASIC FIREARM TRAINING PROGRAM.

(C) AFTER RECEIPT OF A CERTIFICATE OF SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF A BASIC FIREARM TRAINING PROGRAM, TO MAINTAIN THE RIGHT TO CARRY A FIREARM IN THE DISCHARGE OF OFFICIAL DUTIES, AN EMPLOYEE AUTHORIZED UNDER THIS SECTION TO CARRY A FIREARM SHALL SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE A FIREARMS REQUALIFICATION PROGRAM IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 109.801 of the Revised Code.

(D) EACH EMPLOYEE AUTHORIZED TO CARRY A FIREARM SHALL GIVE BOND TO THE STATE TO BE APPROVED BY THE CLERK OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS IN THE COUNTY OF THAT EMPLOYEE'S RESIDENCE. THE BOND SHALL BE IN THE SUM OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, CONDITIONED TO SAVE THE PUBLIC HARMLESS BY REASON OF THE UNLAWFUL USE OF A FIREARM. A PERSON INJURED OR THE FAMILY OF A PERSON KILLED BY THE EMPLOYEE'S IMPROPER USE OF A FIREARM MAY HAVE RECOURSE ON THE BOND.

(E) THE DIRECTOR OF YOUTH SERVICES SHALL ESTABLISH POLICIES FOR THE CARRYING AND USE OF FIREARMS BY THE EMPLOYEES THAT THE DIRECTOR DESIGNATES UNDER THIS SECTION.

Sec. 5139.54. (A) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION FOR DETERMINING WHEN A CHILD SHALL BE RELEASED OR DISCHARGED FROM THE LEGAL CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES, THE RELEASE AUTHORITY, FOR MEDICAL REASONS, MAY RELEASE A CHILD UPON SUPERVISED RELEASE OR DISCHARGE THE CHILD FROM THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT WHEN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING APPLIES:

(1) THE CHILD IS TERMINALLY ILL OR OTHERWISE IN IMMINENT DANGER OF DEATH.

(2) THE CHILD IS INCAPACITATED DUE TO INJURY, DISEASE, ILLNESS, OR OTHER MEDICAL CONDITION AND IS NO LONGER A THREAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

(3) THE CHILD APPEARS TO BE A MENTALLY ILL PERSON SUBJECT TO HOSPITALIZATION BY COURT ORDER OR A MENTALLY RETARDED PERSON SUBJECT TO INSTITUTIONALIZATION BY COURT ORDER.

(B) WHEN CONSIDERING WHETHER TO RELEASE OR DISCHARGE A CHILD FOR MEDICAL REASONS, THE RELEASE AUTHORITY MAY REQUEST ADDITIONAL MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHILD OR MAY ASK THE DEPARTMENT TO CONDUCT ADDITIONAL MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.

(C) THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATE LEVEL OF SUPERVISED RELEASE FOR A CHILD RELEASED UNDER THIS SECTION. UPON GRANTING A RELEASE OR DISCHARGE UNDER THIS SECTION, THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL GIVE NOTICE OF THE RELEASE AND ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS OR OF THE DISCHARGE TO THE COURT THAT COMMITTED THE CHILD TO THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT.

(D) THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL SUBMIT ANNUALLY TO THE DIRECTOR OF YOUTH SERVICES A REPORT THAT INCLUDES ALL OF THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR:

(1) THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN THE RELEASE AUTHORITY CONSIDERED FOR MEDICAL RELEASE OR DISCHARGE;

(2) THE NATURE OF THE INJURY, DISEASE, ILLNESS, OR OTHER MEDICAL CONDITION OF EACH CHILD CONSIDERED FOR MEDICAL RELEASE OR DISCHARGE;

(3) THE DECISION MADE BY THE RELEASE AUTHORITY FOR EACH CHILD, INCLUDING THE REASONS FOR DENYING MEDICAL RELEASE OR DISCHARGE OR FOR GRANTING IT;

(4) THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN ON MEDICAL RELEASE WHO WERE RETURNED TO A SECURE FACILITY OR WHOSE SUPERVISED RELEASE WAS REVOKED.

Sec. 5139.55. (A) THE OFFICE OF VICTIMS' SERVICES IS HEREBY CREATED WITHIN THE RELEASE AUTHORITY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES. THE OFFICE OF VICTIMS' SERVICES SHALL PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS OF ACTS FOR WHICH A CHILD HAS BEEN ADJUDICATED A DELINQUENT CHILD AND COMMITTED TO THE LEGAL CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT, VICTIMS' REPRESENTATIVES, AND MEMBERS OF A VICTIM'S FAMILY. THE ASSISTANCE SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT THE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES AND THE STATUS OF CHILDREN IN THE LEGAL CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT. THE OFFICE SHALL MAKE AVAILABLE PUBLICATIONS TO ASSIST VICTIMS IN CONTACTING STAFF OF THE DEPARTMENT ABOUT PROBLEMS WITH CHILDREN ON SUPERVISED RELEASE OR IN A SECURE FACILITY.

(B) THE OFFICE OF VICTIMS' SERVICES SHALL EMPLOY A VICTIMS COORDINATOR WHO SHALL ADMINISTER THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICE. THE VICTIMS COORDINATOR SHALL BE IN THE UNCLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE AND, AS A MANAGING OFFICER OF THE DEPARTMENT, SHALL REPORT DIRECTLY TO THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY. THE OFFICE SHALL EMPLOY OTHER STAFF MEMBERS TO ASSIST THE MEMBERS OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY AND HEARING REPRESENTATIVES IN IDENTIFYING VICTIMS' ISSUES, ENSURE THAT THE RELEASE AUTHORITY UPHOLDS THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5139.56 of the Revised Code, AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE RELEASE AUTHORITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH POLICIES ADOPTED BY THE DEPARTMENT. THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL APPROVE THE HIRING OF THE EMPLOYEES OF THE OFFICE.

(C) THE OFFICE OF VICTIMS' SERVICES SHALL COORDINATE ITS ACTIVITIES WITH THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY. THE VICTIMS COORDINATOR AND OTHER EMPLOYEES OF THE OFFICE SHALL HAVE FULL ACCESS TO THE RECORDS OF CHILDREN IN THE LEGAL CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT.

Sec. 5139.56. (A) THE VICTIM OF AN ACT FOR WHICH A CHILD HAS BEEN COMMITTED TO THE LEGAL CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES MAY SUBMIT A WRITTEN REQUEST TO THE RELEASE AUTHORITY TO NOTIFY THE VICTIM OF ALL RELEASE, REVOCATION, AND DISCHARGE REVIEWS RELATING TO THE CHILD. IF THE VICTIM IS A MINOR, IS INCAPACITATED, INCOMPETENT, OR DECEASED, OR CHOOSES TO BE REPRESENTED BY ANOTHER PERSON, THE VICTIM MAY DESIGNATE A PERSON TO ACT ON THE VICTIM'S BEHALF AS A VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE AND TO REQUEST AND RECEIVE THE NOTICES. IF MORE THAN ONE PERSON SEEKS TO ACT AS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE VICTIM, THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL DESIGNATE ONE PERSON TO ACT AS THE VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE. IF THE VICTIM CHOOSES NOT TO HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE, THE VICTIM SHALL BE THE SOLE PERSON ACCORDED RIGHTS UNDER THIS SECTION. THE RELEASE AUTHORITY MAY GIVE NOTICE BY ANY MEANS REASONABLY CALCULATED TO PROVIDE PROMPT ACTUAL NOTICE.

THE VICTIM OR VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE SHALL PROVIDE THE RELEASE AUTHORITY AN ADDRESS OR TELEPHONE NUMBER AT WHICH NOTICE MAY BE GIVEN AND SHALL NOTIFY THE RELEASE AUTHORITY OF ANY CHANGES IN THAT INFORMATION. IF AT ANY TIME THE VICTIM OR VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE ELECTS TO WAIVE NOTICE AND OTHER RIGHTS AFFORDED BY THIS SECTION, THE VICTIM OR VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE MAY DO SO IN A WRITTEN STATEMENT TO THE RELEASE AUTHORITY.

(B) IF A VICTIM OR VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE HAS REQUESTED NOTICE OF PENDING REVIEWS, THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL GIVE THAT PERSON NOTICE OF A REVIEW AT LEAST TWENTY-ONE DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF THE REVIEW. THE NOTICE SHALL SPECIFY THE DATE OF THE REVIEW, INCLUDING THE TIME AND PLACE OF ANY HEARING. UPON RECEIVING NOTICE THAT A HEARING IS SCHEDULED, THE VICTIM OR VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE, AT LEAST TWO DAYS PRIOR TO THE HEARING, SHALL NOTIFY THE RELEASE AUTHORITY OF THE VICTIM'S OR REPRESENTATIVE'S INTENTION TO BE PRESENT AT THE HEARING SO THAT THE RELEASE AUTHORITY MAY ENSURE APPROPRIATE ACCOMMODATIONS AND SECURITY.

(C) IF A VICTIM OR VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE HAS INDICATED A DESIRE TO PARTICIPATE IN A REVIEW, THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL GIVE THAT PERSON AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE A WRITTEN STATEMENT OR COMMUNICATE ORALLY WITH A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY. IF A VICTIM OR VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE IS PRESENT AT A HEARING, THE AUTHORITY SHALL GIVE THAT PERSON AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE AN ORAL OR WRITTEN STATEMENT THAT MAY ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF THE OFFENSE UPON THE VICTIM, INCLUDING THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF ANY HARM SUFFERED, THE EXTENT OF ANY PROPERTY DAMAGE OR ECONOMIC LOSS, ANY RESTITUTION ORDERED BY THE COMMITTING COURT AND THE PROGRESS THE CHILD HAS MADE TOWARD FULFILLMENT OF THAT OBLIGATION, AND THE VICTIM'S RECOMMENDATION FOR THE OUTCOME OF THE REVIEW OR HEARING. A WRITTEN STATEMENT SUBMITTED BY A VICTIM OR A VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE UNDER THIS SECTION IS CONFIDENTIAL, IS NOT A PUBLIC RECORD, AND SHALL BE RETURNED TO THE RELEASE AUTHORITY AT THE END OF A REVIEW OR HEARING BY ANY PERSON WHO RECEIVES A COPY OF IT.

AT A HEARING BEFORE THE RELEASE AUTHORITY, A VICTIM OR VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY ANOTHER PERSON FOR SUPPORT, BUT THAT PERSON SHALL NOT ACT AS A VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE. THE RELEASE AUTHORITY AND OTHER EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES SHALL MAKE REASONABLE EFFORTS TO MINIMIZE CONTACT BETWEEN THE CHILD AND THE VICTIM, VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE, OR SUPPORT PERSON BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER THE HEARING. THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL USE A SEPARATE WAITING AREA FOR THE VICTIM, VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE, AND SUPPORT PERSON IF A SEPARATE AREA IS AVAILABLE.

(D) AT NO TIME SHALL A VICTIM OR VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE BE COMPELLED TO DISCLOSE THE VICTIM'S ADDRESS, PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT, OR SIMILAR IDENTIFYING INFORMATION TO THE CHILD OR THE CHILD'S PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN. UPON REQUEST OF A VICTIM OR A VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE, THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL KEEP IN ITS FILES ONLY THE ADDRESS OR TELEPHONE NUMBER TO WHICH IT SHALL SEND NOTICE OF A REVIEW.

(E) NO EMPLOYER SHALL DISCHARGE, DISCIPLINE, OR OTHERWISE RETALIATE AGAINST A VICTIM OR VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE FOR PARTICIPATING IN A HEARING BEFORE THE RELEASE AUTHORITY. THIS DIVISION GENERALLY DOES NOT REQUIRE AN EMPLOYER TO COMPENSATE AN EMPLOYEE FOR TIME LOST AS A RESULT OF ATTENDANCE AT A HEARING BEFORE THE RELEASE AUTHORITY.

(F) THE RELEASE AUTHORITY SHALL MAKE REASONABLE, GOOD FAITH EFFORTS TO COMPLY WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION. FAILURE OF THE RELEASE AUTHORITY TO COMPLY WITH THIS SECTION DOES NOT GIVE RISE TO A CLAIM FOR DAMAGES AGAINST THE RELEASE AUTHORITY AND DOES NOT REQUIRE MODIFICATION OF A FINAL DECISION BY THE RELEASE AUTHORITY.

(G) IF A VICTIM IS IN THE LEGAL CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES AND RESIDES IN A SECURE FACILITY OR IN ANOTHER SECURE RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM, INCLUDING A COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS FACILITY, OR IS INCARCERATED, THE RELEASE AUTHORITY MAY MODIFY THE VICTIM'S RIGHTS UNDER THIS SECTION TO PREVENT A SECURITY RISK, HARDSHIP, OR UNDUE BURDEN UPON A PUBLIC OFFICIAL OR AGENCY WITH A DUTY UNDER THIS SECTION. IF THE VICTIM RESIDES IN ANOTHER STATE UNDER SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES, THE RELEASE AUTHORITY MAY MAKE SIMILAR MODIFICATIONS OF THE VICTIM'S RIGHTS.