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71A.24.010 | Role of department—Eligibility. | (1) To the extent funding is appropriated for this purpose, intensive behavior support services may be provided by the department, directly or by contract, to children who have developmental disabilities and intense behaviors and to their families. (2) The department shall be the lead administrative agency for children... |
71A.24.020 | Intensive behavior support services—Core team. | (1) Intensive behavior support services under the program authorized in RCW 71A.24.010 shall be provided through a core team of highly trained individuals, either directly or by contract. (2) The intensive behavior support services shall be designed to enhance the child's and parent's skills to manage behaviors, increa... |
71A.26.010 | Minimum rights. | The rights set forth in this chapter are the minimal rights guaranteed to all clients of the administration, and are not intended to diminish rights set forth in other state or federal laws that may contain additional rights.
[ 2020 c 271 s 1 .] |
71A.26.020 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Administration" means the division of the department responsible for providing services to eligible persons, but does not include the division of the department responsible for the licensing and certificati... |
71A.26.030 | Client rights—Notification. | (1) The administration must notify the individual and the individual's legal representative or necessary supplemental accommodation representative of the rights set forth in this chapter upon determining the individual is an eligible person. The notification the administration provides must be in written form. The admi... |
71A.26.040 | Rules. | The department shall adopt rules as necessary to inform clients and providers of the client rights set forth in this chapter. The department shall adopt rules as necessary to provide oversight and enforcement of provider practices relating to these rights for providers licensed or certified by the department.
[ 2020 c ... |
71A.26.050 | Private right of action. | Nothing in this chapter limits an existing private right of action against the department, the administration, or the state of Washington. Nothing in this chapter creates a private right of action against the department, the administration, or the state of Washington.
[ 2020 c 271 s 5 .] |
71A.28.010 | Person-centered service plan—Intent. | It is the intent of the legislature that parents are responsible for the care and support of children with developmental disabilities. The legislature recognizes that, because of the intense support required to care for a child with developmental disabilities, the help of out-of-home services may be needed. It is the i... |
71A.28.020 | Person-centered service plan—Custody—Termination—Rules. | (1) Under the person-centered service plan, the parent or legal guardian retains legal custody for the child's placement and care. The service plan must be signed by the child's parent or legal guardian and the department to be in effect. (2) The parent or legal guardian may terminate services at any time. Upon termina... |
71A.28.030 | Intent—Voluntary out-of-home services—Dependency petition—Rules. | (1) It is the intent of the legislature that the department offer voluntary out-of-home services in cases where the sole reason for the child's out-of-home services is due to the child's developmental disability and the parent, guardian, or legal custodian has determined that the child would benefit from services outsi... |
72.01.010 | Powers and duties apply to department of social and health services, department of children, youth, and families, and department of corrections—Joint exercise authorized. | As used in this chapter: "Department" means the departments of social and health services, children, youth, and families, and corrections; and "Secretary" means the secretaries of social and health services, children, youth, and families, and corrections. The powers and duties granted and imposed in this chapter, when ... |
72.01.042 | Hours of labor for full time employees—Compensatory time—Premium pay. | The hours of labor for each full time employee shall be a maximum of eight hours in any workday and forty hours in any workweek. Employees required to work in excess of the eight-hour maximum per day or the forty-hour maximum per week shall be compensated by not less than equal hours of compensatory time off or, in lie... |
72.01.043 | Hours of labor for full time employees—Certain personnel excepted. | RCW 72.01.042 shall not be applicable to the following designated personnel: Administrative officers of the department; institutional superintendents, medical staff other than nurses, and business managers; and such professional, administrative and supervisory personnel as designated prior to July 1, 1970 by the depart... |
72.01.045 | Assaults to employees—Reimbursement for costs. | (1) For purposes of this section only, "assault" means an unauthorized touching of an employee by a resident, patient, or juvenile offender resulting in physical injury to the employee. (2) In recognition of the hazardous nature of employment in state institutions, the legislature hereby provides a supplementary progra... |
72.01.050 | Secretary's powers and duties—Management of public institutions and correctional facilities. | (1) The secretary of social and health services shall have full power to manage and govern the following public institutions: The western state hospital, the eastern state hospital, the northern state hospital, Lakeland Village, the Rainier school, and such other institutions as authorized by law, subject only to the l... |
72.01.060 | Chief executive officers—Appointment—Salaries—Assistants. | The secretary shall appoint the chief executive officers necessary to manage one or more of the public facilities operated by the department. This section, however, shall not apply to RCW 72.40.020 . Except as otherwise provided in this title, the chief executive officer of each institution may appoint all assistants a... |
72.01.090 | Rules and regulations. | The department is authorized to make its own rules for the proper execution of its powers. It shall also have the power to adopt rules and regulations for the government of the public institutions placed under its control, and shall therein prescribe, in a manner consistent with the provisions of this title, the duties... |
72.01.110 | Construction or repair of buildings—Contracts or inmate labor. | The department may employ the services of competent architects for the preparation of plans and specifications for new buildings, or for repairs, changes, or additions to buildings already constructed, employ competent persons to superintend the construction of new buildings or repairs, changes, or additions to buildin... |
72.01.120 | Construction or repair of buildings—Award of contracts. | When improvements are to be made under contract, notice of the call for the same shall be published in at least two newspapers of general circulation in the state for two weeks prior to the award being made. The contract shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. The secretary is authorized to require such secu... |
72.01.130 | Destruction of buildings—Reconstruction. | If any of the shops or buildings in which convicts are employed are destroyed in any way, or injured by fire or otherwise, they may be rebuilt or repaired immediately under the direction of the department, by and with the advice and consent of the governor, and the expenses thereof shall be paid out of any unexpended f... |
72.01.140 | Agricultural and farm activities. | The secretary shall: (1) Make a survey, investigation, and classification of the lands connected with the state institutions under his or her control, and determine which thereof are of such character as to be most profitably used for agricultural, horticultural, dairying, and stock raising purposes, taking into consid... |
72.01.150 | Industrial activities. | The secretary shall: (1) Establish, install and operate, at the several state institutions under his or her control, such industries and industrial plants as may be most suitable and beneficial to the inmates thereof, and as can be operated at the least relative cost and the greatest relative benefit to the state, taki... |
72.01.180 | Dietitian—Duties—Travel expenses. | The secretary shall have the power to select a member of the faculty of the University of Washington, or the Washington State University, skilled in scientific food analysis and dietetics, to be known as the state dietitian, who shall make and furnish to the department food analyses showing the relative food value, in ... |
72.01.190 | Fire protection. | The secretary may enter into an agreement with a city or town adjacent to any state institution for fire protection for such institution.
[ 1979 c 141 s 153 ; 1959 c 28 s 72.01.190 . Prior: 1947 c 188 s 1 ; Rem. Supp. 1947 s 10898a. Formerly RCW 72.04.140 .] |
72.01.200 | Employment of teachers—Exceptions. | State correctional facilities may employ certificated teachers to carry on their educational work, except for the educational programs provided pursuant to RCW 28A.190.030 through 28A.190.050 and all such teachers so employed shall be eligible to membership in the state teachers' retirement fund.
[ 1992 c 7 s 52 ; 1990... |
72.01.210 | Institutional religious coordinators—Appointment—Qualifications. | (1) The secretary of corrections shall appoint institutional religious coordinators for the state correctional institutions for convicted felons. Institutional religious coordinators shall be appointed as employees of the department of corrections. The secretary of corrections may further contract with religious coordi... |
72.01.212 | Institutional religious coordinators—Liability insurance—Representation by attorney general in civil lawsuits. | Regardless of whether the services are voluntary or provided by employment or contract with the department of corrections, a religious coordinator who provides the services authorized by RCW 72.01.220 : (1) May not be compelled to carry personal liability insurance as a condition of providing those services; and (2) Ma... |
72.01.220 | Institutional religious coordinators—Duties. | It shall be the duty of the religious coordinators at the respective institutions mentioned in RCW 72.01.210 , under the direction of the department, to conduct religious services and to give religious and moral instruction to the inmates of the institutions, and to attend to their spiritual wants. They shall counsel w... |
72.01.230 | Institutional religious coordinators—Offices, chapels, supplies. | The religious coordinators at the respective institutions mentioned in RCW 72.01.210 shall be provided with the offices and chapels at their institutions, and such supplies as may be necessary for the carrying out of their duties.
[ 2019 c 107 s 5 ; 1959 c 28 s 72.01.230 . Prior: 1955 c 248 s 3 . Formerly RCW 72.04.180... |
72.01.240 | Supervisor of religious coordinators. | Each secretary is hereby empowered to appoint one of the religious coordinators, authorized by RCW 72.01.210 , to act as supervisor of religious coordinators for his or her department, in addition to his or her duties at one of the institutions designated in RCW 72.01.210 .
[ 2019 c 107 s 6 ; 2012 c 117 s 448 ; 1981 c ... |
72.01.260 | Outside ministers not excluded. | Nothing contained in RCW 72.01.210 through 72.01.240 shall be so construed as to exclude ministers of any denomination from giving gratuitous religious or moral instruction to prisoners under such reasonable rules and regulations as the secretary may prescribe.
[ 1983 c 3 s 184 ; 1979 c 141 s 156 ; 1959 c 28 s 72.01.26... |
72.01.270 | Gifts, acceptance of. | The secretary shall have the power to receive, hold and manage all real and personal property made over to the department by gift, devise or bequest, and the proceeds and increase thereof shall be used for the benefit of the institution for which it is received.
[ 1979 c 141 s 157 ; 1959 c 28 s 72.01.270 . Prior: 1901 ... |
72.01.280 | Quarters for personnel—Charges. | The superintendent of each public institution and the assistant physicians, steward, accountant and chief engineer of each hospital for the mentally ill may be furnished with quarters, household furniture, board, fuel, and lights for themselves and their families, and the secretary may, when in his or her opinion any p... |
72.01.282 | Quarters for personnel—Deposit of receipts. | All moneys received by the secretary from charges made pursuant to RCW 72.01.280 shall be deposited by him or her in the state general fund.
[ 2012 c 117 s 450 ; 1981 c 136 s 71 ; 1979 c 141 s 159 ; 1959 c 210 s 1 .]
Effective date — 1981 c 136: See RCW 72.09.900 . |
72.01.290 | Record of patients and inmates. | The department shall keep at its office, accessible only to the secretary and to proper officers and employees, and to other persons authorized by the secretary, a record showing the residence, sex, age, nativity, occupation, civil condition and date of entrance, or commitment of every person, patient, inmate or convic... |
72.01.300 | Accounting systems. | The secretary shall have the power, and it shall be his or her duty, to install and maintain in the department a proper cost accounting system of accounts for each of the institutions under the control of the department, for the purpose of detecting and avoiding unprofitable expenditures and operations.
[ 2012 c 117 s ... |
72.01.310 | Political influence forbidden. | Any officer, including the secretary, or employee of the department or of the institutions under the control of the department, who, by solicitation or otherwise, exercises his or her influence, directly or indirectly, to influence other officers or employees of the state to adopt his or her political views or to favor... |
72.01.320 | Examination of conditions and needs—Report. | The secretary shall examine into the conditions and needs of the several state institutions under the secretary's control and report in writing to the governor the condition of each institution.
[ 1987 c 505 s 66 ; 1979 c 141 s 163 ; 1977 c 75 s 84 ; 1959 c 28 s 72.01.320 . Prior: 1955 c 195 s 5 . (i) 1901 c 119 s 14 ;... |
72.01.365 | Escorted leaves of absence for inmates—Definitions. | As used in RCW 72.01.370 and 72.01.375 : "Escorted leave" means a leave of absence from a correctional facility under the continuous supervision of an escort. "Escort" means a correctional officer or other person approved by the superintendent or the superintendent's designee to accompany an inmate on a leave of absenc... |
72.01.370 | Escorted leaves of absence for inmates—Grounds. | The superintendent of any state correctional facility may, subject to the approval of the secretary and under RCW 72.01.375 , grant escorted leaves of absence to inmates confined in such institutions to: (1) Go to the bedside of the inmate's wife, husband, child, mother or father, or other member of the inmate's immedi... |
72.01.375 | Escorted leaves of absence for inmates—Notification of local law enforcement agencies. | An inmate shall not be allowed to start a leave of absence under RCW 72.01.370 until the secretary, or the secretary's designee, has notified any county and city law enforcement agency having jurisdiction in the area of the inmate's destination.
[ 1983 c 255 s 4 .] |
72.01.380 | Leaves of absence for inmates—Rules—Restrictions—Costs. | The secretary is authorized to make rules and regulations providing for the conditions under which inmates will be granted leaves of absence, and providing for safeguards to prevent escapes while on leave of absence: PROVIDED, That leaves of absence granted to inmates under RCW 72.01.370 shall not allow or permit any i... |
72.01.410 | Placement of person convicted as an adult for a felony offense committed under the age of eighteen. | (1) Whenever any person is convicted as an adult in the courts of this state of a felony offense committed under the age of eighteen, and is committed for a term of confinement, that person shall be initially placed in a facility operated by the department of children, youth, and families. The department of corrections... |
72.01.412 | Eligibility for community transition services. | (1) A person in the custody of the department of children, youth, and families under RCW 72.01.410 is eligible for community transition services under the authority and supervision of the department of children, youth, and families: (a) After the person's 25th birthday: (i) If the person's earned release date is after ... |
72.01.415 | Offender under eighteen confined to a jail—Segregation from adult offenders. | An offender under the age of eighteen who is convicted in adult criminal court of a crime and who is committed for a term of confinement in a jail as defined in RCW 70.48.020 , must be housed in a jail cell that does not contain adult offenders, until the offender reaches the age of eighteen.
[ 1997 c 338 s 42 .]
Findi... |
72.01.430 | Transfer of equipment, supplies, livestock between institutions—Notice—Conditions. | The secretary, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, is hereby authorized to transfer equipment, livestock and supplies between the several institutions within the department without reimbursement to the transferring institution excepting, however, any such equipment donated by organizations for the sol... |
72.01.450 | Use of facilities, equipment and personnel by school districts and institutions of higher learning authorized. | The secretary is authorized to enter into agreements with any school district or any institution of higher learning for the use of the facilities, equipment and personnel of any state institution of the department, for the purpose of conducting courses of education, instruction or training in the professions and skills... |
72.01.452 | Use of facilities, equipment and personnel by state agencies, counties, cities or political subdivisions. | The secretary is authorized to enter into an agreement with any agency of the state, a county, city or political subdivision of the state for the use of the facilities, equipment and personnel of any institution of the department for the purpose of conducting courses of education, instruction or training in any profess... |
72.01.454 | Use of facilities by counties, community service organizations, nonprofit associations, etc. | (1) The secretary may permit the use of the facilities of any state institution by any community service organization, nonprofit corporation, group or association for the purpose of conducting a program of education, training, entertainment or other purpose, for the residents of such institutions, if determined by the ... |
72.01.458 | Use of files and records for courses of education, instruction and training at institutions. | In any course of education, instruction or training conducted in any state institution of the department use may be made of selected files and records of such institution, notwithstanding the provisions of any statute to the contrary.
[ 1970 ex.s. c 50 s 4 .] |
72.01.460 | Lease of lands with outdoor recreation potential—Restrictions—Unlawful to use posted lands. | (1) Any lease of public lands with outdoor recreation potential authorized by the department shall be open and available to the public for compatible recreational use unless the department determines that the leased land should be closed in order to prevent damage to crops or other land cover, to improvements on the la... |
72.01.480 | Agreements with nonprofit organizations to provide services for persons admitted or committed to institutions. | The secretary is authorized to enter into agreements with any nonprofit corporation or association for the purpose of providing and coordinating voluntary and community-based services for the treatment or rehabilitation of persons admitted or committed to any institution under the supervision of the department.
[ 1981 ... |
72.01.900 | Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521. | For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married person... |
72.02.015 | Powers of court or judge not impaired. | Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to restrict or impair the power of any court or judge having jurisdiction to pronounce sentence upon a person to whom this chapter applies, to fix the term of imprisonment and to order commitment, according to law, nor to deny the right of any such court or judge to sentence t... |
72.02.040 | Secretary acting for department exercises powers and duties. | The secretary of corrections acting for the department of corrections shall exercise all powers and perform all duties prescribed by law with respect to the administration of any adult correctional program by the department of corrections.
[ 1981 c 136 s 79 ; 1970 ex.s. c 18 s 57 ; 1959 c 28 s 72.02.040 . Prior: 1957 c... |
72.02.045 | Superintendent's authority. | The superintendent of each institution has the powers, duties, and responsibilities specified in this section. (1) Subject to the rules of the department, the superintendent is responsible for the supervision and management of the institution, the grounds and buildings, the subordinate officers and employees, and the p... |
72.02.055 | Appointment of associate superintendents. | The superintendent, subject to the approval of the director of the division of prisons and the secretary, shall appoint such associate superintendents as shall be deemed necessary, who shall have such qualifications as shall be determined by the secretary. In the event the superintendent is absent from the institution,... |
72.02.100 | Earnings, clothing, transportation, subsistence payments, and rental vouchers upon release of certain prisoners. | (1) Any person serving a sentence for a term of confinement in a state correctional facility, pursuant to court commitment, who is thereafter released upon an order of parole of the indeterminate sentence review board, or who is discharged from custody upon expiration of sentence, or who is ordered discharged from cust... |
72.02.110 | Weekly payments to certain released prisoners. | As state, federal or other funds are available, the secretary of corrections or his or her designee is authorized, in his or her discretion, not to provide the forty dollars subsistence money or the optional sixty dollars to a person or persons released as described in RCW 72.02.100 , and instead to utilize the authori... |
72.02.150 | Disturbances at state penal facilities—Development of contingency plans—Scope—Local participation. | The secretary or the secretary's designee shall be responsible for the preparation of contingency plans for dealing with disturbances at state penal facilities. The plans shall be developed or revised in cooperation with representatives of state and local agencies at least annually. Contingency plans developed shall en... |
72.02.160 | Disturbances at state penal facilities—Utilization of outside law enforcement personnel—Scope. | Whenever the secretary or the secretary's designee determines that due to a disturbance at a state penal facility within the jurisdiction of the department that the assistance of law enforcement officers in addition to department of corrections' personnel is required, the secretary may notify the Washington state patro... |
72.02.200 | Reception and classification units. | There shall be units known as reception and classification centers which, subject to the rules and regulations of the department, shall be charged with the function of receiving and classifying all persons committed or transferred to the institution, taking into consideration age, type of crime for which committed, phy... |
72.02.210 | Sentence—Commitment to reception units. | Any offender convicted of an offense punishable by imprisonment, except an offender sentenced to death, shall, notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, be sentenced to imprisonment in a penal institution under the jurisdiction of the department without designating the name of such institution, and be committe... |
72.02.220 | Cooperation with reception units by state agencies. | The indeterminate sentence review board and other state agencies shall cooperate with the department in obtaining necessary investigative materials concerning offenders committed to the reception unit and supply the reception unit with necessary information regarding social histories and community background.
[ 1988 c ... |
72.02.230 | Persons to be received for classification and placement. | The division of prisons shall receive all persons convicted of a felony by the superior court and committed by the superior court to the reception units for classification and placement in such facility as the secretary shall designate. The superintendent of these institutions shall only receive prisoners for classific... |
72.02.240 | Secretary to determine placement—What laws govern confinement, parole and discharge. | The secretary shall determine the state correctional institution in which the offender shall be confined during the term of imprisonment. The confinement of any offender shall be governed by the laws applicable to the institution to which the offender is certified for confinement, but parole and discharge shall be gove... |
72.02.250 | Commitment of convicted female persons—Procedure as to death sentences. | All female persons convicted in the superior courts of a felony and sentenced to a term of confinement, shall be committed to the Washington correctional institution for women. Female persons sentenced to death shall be committed to the Washington correctional institution for women, notwithstanding the provisions of *R... |
72.02.260 | Letters of inmates may be withheld. | Whenever the superintendent of an institution withholds from mailing letters written by inmates of such institution, the superintendent shall forward such letters to the secretary of corrections or the secretary's designee for study and the inmate shall be forthwith notified that such letter has been withheld from mail... |
72.02.270 | Abused victims—Murder of abuser—Notice of provisions for reduction in sentence. | The department shall advise all inmates in the department's custody who were convicted of a murder that the inmate committed prior to July 23, 1989, about the provisions in RCW 9.95.045 , 9.95.047 , and 9.94A.890 . The department shall advise the inmates of the method and deadline for submitting petitions to the indete... |
72.02.280 | Motion pictures. | Motion pictures unrated after November 1968 or rated X or NC-17 by the motion picture association of America shall not be shown in adult correctional facilities.
[ 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 808 .]
Finding — Intent — Severability — 1994 sp.s. c 7: See notes following RCW 43.70.540 . |
72.04A.050 | Transfer of certain powers and duties of board of prison terms and paroles to secretary of corrections. | The powers and duties of the state *board of prison terms and paroles, relating to (1) the supervision of parolees of any of the state penal institutions, (2) the supervision of persons placed on probation by the courts, and (3) duties with respect to persons conditionally pardoned by the governor, are transferred to t... |
72.04A.070 | Plans and recommendations for conditions of supervision of parolees. | The secretary of corrections shall cause to be prepared plans and recommendations for the conditions of supervision under which each inmate of any state penal institutions who is eligible for parole may be released from custody. Such plans and recommendations shall be submitted to the *board of prison terms and paroles... |
72.04A.080 | Parolees subject to supervision of department—Progress reports. | Each inmate hereafter released on parole shall be subject to the supervision of the department of corrections, and the probation and parole officers of the department shall be charged with the preparation of progress reports of parolees and to give guidance and supervision to such parolees within the conditions of a pa... |
72.04A.090 | Violations of parole or probation—Revision of parole conditions—Detention. | Whenever a parolee breaches a condition or conditions under which he or she was granted parole, or violates any law of the state or rules and regulations of the indeterminate sentencing [sentence] review board, any probation and parole officer may arrest, or cause the arrest and suspension of parole of, such parolee wi... |
72.04A.900 | RCW72.04A.050through72.04A.090inapplicable to felonies committed after July 1, 1984. | The following sections of law do not apply to any felony offense committed on or after July 1, 1984: RCW 72.04A.050 , 72.04A.070 , 72.04A.080 , and 72.04A.090 .
[ 1981 c 137 s 34 .] |
72.05.010 | Declaration of purpose. | (1) The purposes of RCW 72.05.010 through 72.05.210 are: To provide for every child with behavior problems, persons with disabilities, and hearing and visually impaired children, within the purview of RCW 72.05.010 through 72.05.210 , as now or hereafter amended, such care, guidance and instruction, control and treatme... |
72.05.020 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Community facility" means a group care facility operated for the care of juveniles committed to the department under RCW 13.40.185 . A county detention facility that houses juveniles committed to the department under RCW 13.40.185 pursuant to a contra... |
72.05.130 | Powers and duties of department—"Close security" institutions designated. | The department of social and health services and the department of children, youth, and families shall establish, maintain, operate and administer a comprehensive program for the custody, care, education, treatment, instruction, guidance, control, and rehabilitation of all persons who may be committed or admitted to in... |
72.05.150 | "Minimum security" institutions. | The department shall have power to acquire, establish, maintain, and operate "minimum security" facilities for the care, custody, education, and treatment of children with less serious behavior problems. Such facilities may include parental schools or homes, farm units, and forest camps. Admission to such minimum secur... |
72.05.152 | Juvenile forest camps—Industrial insurance benefits prohibited—Exceptions. | No inmate of a juvenile forest camp who is affected by this chapter or receives benefits pursuant to RCW 72.05.152 and 72.05.154 shall be considered as an employee or to be employed by the state or the department of social and health services or the department of natural resources, nor shall any such inmate, except tho... |
72.05.154 | Juvenile forest camps—Industrial insurance—Eligibility for benefits—Exceptions. | From and after July 1, 1973, any inmate working in a juvenile forest camp established and operated pursuant to RCW 72.05.150 , pursuant to an agreement between the department of children, youth, and families and the department of natural resources shall be eligible for the benefits provided by Title 51 RCW, as now or h... |
72.05.160 | Contracts with other divisions, agencies authorized. | In carrying out the provisions of RCW 72.05.010 through 72.05.210 , the department shall have power to contract with other divisions or departments of the state or its political subdivisions, with any agency of the federal government, or with any private social agency.
[ 1979 c 141 s 182 ; 1959 c 28 s 72.05.160 . Prior... |
72.05.170 | Counseling and consultative services. | The department may provide professional counseling services to delinquent children and their parents, consultative services to communities dealing with problems of children and youth, and may give assistance to law enforcement agencies by means of juvenile control officers who may be selected from the field of police w... |
72.05.200 | Parental right to provide treatment preserved. | Nothing in RCW 72.05.010 through 72.05.210 shall be construed as limiting the right of a parent, guardian or person standing in loco parentis in providing any medical or other remedial treatment recognized or permitted under the laws of this state.
[ 1959 c 28 s 72.05.200 . Prior: 1951 c 234 s 19 . Formerly RCW 43.19.4... |
72.05.210 | Juvenile court law—Applicability—Synonymous terms. | RCW 72.05.010 through 72.05.210 shall be construed in connection with and supplemental to the juvenile court law as embraced in chapter 13.04 RCW. Process, procedure, probation by the court prior to commitment, and commitment shall be as provided therein. The terms "delinquency", "delinquent" and "delinquent children" ... |
72.05.310 | Parental schools—Personnel. | The department may employ personnel, including but not limited to, superintendents and all other officers, agents, and teachers necessary to the operation of parental schools.
[ 1979 c 141 s 184 ; 1959 c 28 s 72.05.310 . Prior: 1957 c 297 s 3 . Formerly RCW 43.28.170 .] |
72.05.400 | Operation of community facility—Establishing or relocating—Public participation required—Secretary's duties. | (1) Whenever the department operates, or the secretary enters a contract to operate, a community facility, the community facility may be operated only after the public notification and opportunities for review and comment as required by this section. (2) The secretary shall establish a process for early and continuous ... |
72.05.405 | Juveniles in community facility—Infraction policy—Return to institution upon serious violation—Definitions by rule. | The department shall adopt an infraction policy for juveniles placed in community facilities. The policy shall require written documentation by the department and service providers of all infractions and violations by juveniles of conditions set by the department. Any juvenile who commits a serious infraction or a seri... |
72.05.410 | Violations by juveniles in community facility—Toll-free hotline for reporting. | (1) The department shall publish and operate a staffed, toll-free twenty-four-hour hotline for the purpose of receiving reports of violation of conditions set for juveniles who are placed in community facilities. (2) The department shall include the phone number on all documents distributed to the juvenile and the juve... |
72.05.415 | Establishing community placement oversight committees—Review and recommendations—Liability—Travel expenses—Notice to law enforcement of placement decisions. | (1) The secretary shall develop a process with local governments that allows each community to establish a community placement oversight committee. The department may conduct community awareness activities. The community placement oversight committees developed pursuant to this section shall be implemented no later tha... |
72.05.420 | Placement in community facility—Necessary conditions and actions—Department's duties. | (1) The department shall not initially place an offender in a community facility unless: (a) The department has conducted a risk assessment, including a determination of drug and alcohol abuse, and the results indicate the juvenile will pose not more than a minimum risk to public safety; and (b) The offender has spent ... |
72.05.425 | Student records and information—Necessary for risk assessment, security classification, and proper placement—Rules. | (1) The department shall establish by rule, in consultation with the office of the superintendent of public instruction, those student records and information necessary to conduct a risk assessment, make a security classification, and ensure proper placement. Those records shall include at least: (a) Any history of pla... |
72.05.430 | Placement and supervision of juveniles in community facility—Monitoring requirements—Copies of agreements. | (1) Whenever the department operates, or the secretary enters a contract to operate, a community facility, the placement and supervision of juveniles must be accomplished in accordance with this section. (2) The secretary shall require that any juvenile placed in a community facility and who is employed or assigned as ... |
72.05.435 | Common use of residential group homes for juvenile offenders—Placement of juvenile convicted of a class A felony. | (1) The department shall establish by rule a policy for the common use of residential group homes for juvenile offenders under the jurisdiction of the department. (2) A juvenile confined under the jurisdiction of the department who is convicted of a class A felony is not eligible for placement in a community facility o... |
72.05.440 | Eligibility for employment or volunteer position with juveniles—Must report convictions—Rules. | (1) A person shall not be eligible for an employed or volunteer position within the department of children, youth, and families or any agency with which it contracts in which the person may have regular access to juveniles under the jurisdiction of the department of children, youth, and families or the department of co... |
72.05.450 | Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody—Allowed in extraordinary circumstances. | (1) Except in extraordinary circumstances no restraints of any kind may be used on any pregnant youth in an institution or a community facility covered by this chapter during transportation to and from visits to medical providers and court proceedings during the third trimester of her pregnancy, or during postpartum re... |
72.05.451 | Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody—Provision of information to staff and pregnant youth in custody. | (1) The secretary shall provide an informational packet about the requirements of chapter 181, Laws of 2010 to all medical staff and nonmedical staff of the institution or community facility who are involved in the transportation of youth who are pregnant, as well as such other staff as the secretary deems appropriate.... |
72.05.460 | Youth adjudicated/sentenced by tribal court—Department may provide residential custody services in state juvenile rehabilitation facility—Contract between department and tribe. | (1) The department may provide residential custody services in a state juvenile rehabilitation facility to youth adjudicated and sentenced by a court of any federally recognized Indian tribe located within the state of Washington, pursuant to a contract between the department and the tribe that is entered into in compl... |
72.06.010 | "Department" defined. | "Department" for the purposes of this chapter shall mean the department of social and health services.
[ 1970 ex.s. c 18 s 59 ; 1959 c 28 s 72.06.010 . Prior: 1957 c 272 s 9 . Formerly RCW 43.28.040 .]
Effective date — Severability — 1970 ex.s. c 18: See notes following RCW 43.20A.010 . |
72.06.050 | Mental health—Dissemination of information and advice by department. | The department shall cooperate with other departments of state government and its political subdivisions in the following manner: (1) By disseminating educational information relating to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. (2) Upon request therefor, by advising public officers, organizations and ... |
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