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CCA-Initiated and Sponsored Legislation:
- P.A. 01-181: An Act Concerning Gender
Specific Services and Programs for Juvenile Offenders
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Effective Date: October 1, 2001 This act makes assuring that
programs for juvenile offenders are gender specific one of the
goals of the state's juvenile justice system. It requires the
Judicial Branch's Office of Alternative Sanctions to ensure
that all of its crime prevention and reduction programs for
juvenile offenders are gender specific, if necessary. And it
requires the Department of Children and Families (DCF) commissioner
to assure that the department's programs for juvenile offenders
under its supervision are gender specific. Under the act, a
program is gender specific if it comprehensively addresses the
unique needs of a targeted gender.
Finally, the act specifies that mental health services are included
in the community-based programs the DCF commissioner is responsible
for promoting in order to prevent juvenile crime and minimize
children's involvement with the juvenile justice system.
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Effective Date: July 1, 2001 This act requires local zoning
regulations to treat as single-family homes Department of
Children and Families (DCF)-licensed residences housing up
to six mentally or physically disabled children (not defined)
and necessary staff. The law already requires this treatment
for Department of Mental Retardation (DMR)-licensed residences
housing up to six mentally retarded people and necessary staff.
The act permits any resident of a town hosting a DCF-licensed
residential facility to petition the DCF commissioner to revoke
the facility's license for violations of applicable statutes
or regulations. The resident must get the approval of the
town's legislative body before filing the petition.
Under the act, DCF-licenses residential facilities cannot
be located within 1,000 feet of each other or DMR-licensed
residences, unless the local zoning commission approves. DMR-licensed
residences are also subject to this restriction.
The act also specifies that it does not change the existing
law relative to special education funding responsibilities
for DCF- and DMR-placed children. Generally, the child's original
school district must pay for special education and related
services.
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