41-5-2006. Rulemaking authority. (1) The department shall adopt rules necessary for the implementation of 41-5-130 through 41-5-132 and this part, including but not limited to:
     (a) defining and establishing criteria for early intervention regarding troubled youth and the development of community alternatives;
     (b) evaluating each youth court to ensure that the court is using early intervention strategies and community alternatives and is effectively controlling costs for youth placements;
     (c) distributing unused account funds to the youth courts;
     (d) determining the allocation of funds to the accounts for the youth courts;
     (e) determining the amount of funds to be withheld by the department as cost containment funds;
     (f) monitoring and auditing each youth court to ensure that account funds are being used as required by law;
     (g) distributing cost containment funds to youth courts;
     (h) monitoring youth courts to promote consistency and uniformity in the placement of juvenile offenders;
     (i) developing procedures for the operation of the cost containment review panel;
     (j) developing one or more risk assessment tools; and
     (k) developing procedures for removing youth with serious mental illness from the juvenile correctional system.
     (2) It is the intent of the legislature that rules adopted by the department encourage the use of local, regional, and state resources for the placement of troubled youth.

     History: En. Sec. 18, Ch. 587, L. 2001.