This Act requires DCF, in consultation with Court Support
Services Division, DSS, and the Child Advocate, and community
providers to establish a plan for female status offenders
and delinquents. The Plan is due to the Select Committee
on Children no later than January 1, 2005.
Public Act 04-89: An Act Concerning Reports on Adjudicated
Youth in the Care of the Department of Children and Families
This Act permits the criminal courts to transfer sexual
assault cases of 14 or 15 year olds accused of having consensual
sexual intercourse with a victim under 13 to juvenile court
at the request of the state prosecutor.
Public Act 04-152: An Act Prohibiting the Placement of
Female Juvenile Offenders at the Connecticut Juvenile Training
School
Conn. Gen. Stat. 17a-114(c) has been amended, effecitve October
1, 2004, to allow children who are 14 or older to be placed
in a non-licensed special study foster home for a period of
up to 90 days, pending foster care licensing. See Act No. 04-88.
This expands the current waiver provision, which allows placement
pending licensing only with relatives. The requirements that
the placement be in the best interests of the child, that a
basic family assessment and satisfactory home visit have been
conducted, and that all adults living in the home meet criminal
history criteria still apply.
Other important legislation involving
children from 2004:
