HB 3141

Abstract

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Director of Juvenile Justice shall make an annual report to the Governor and General Assembly concerning persons committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice, its institutions, facilities, and programs, of all moneys expended and received, and on what accounts expended and received no later than January 1 of each year. The report shall include the ethnic and racial background data, not identifiable to an individual, of all persons committed to the Department, its institutions, facilities, programs, and outcome measures established with the Juvenile Advisory Board. Provides that the Department of Juvenile Justice shall, by January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year, transmit to the Governor and General Assembly, a report which shall include the following information: (1) the number of youth in each of the Department's facilities and the number of youth on aftercare; (2) the demographics of sex, age, race and ethnicity, classification of offense, and geographic location from where the offense occurred; (3) the educational and vocational programs provided at each facility and the number of residents participating in each program; (4) the present capacity levels in each facility; and (5) the ratio of the security staff to residents in each facility by federal PREA definitions. Deletes provision that the annual results of the Department's work as defined by outcome measures established by the Juvenile Advisory Board, with the Director and in conjunction with the Office of the Governor, shall be approved by the Board. Provides that the annual report of the Department's work transmitted to the Governor and General Assembly shall be by the Director of Juvenile Justice and not jointly by Director and the Board.