Chapter 241 Oregon Laws 2001

AN ACT

SB 75

Relating to local citizen review boards; amending ORS 419A.092 and section 1, chapter 187, Oregon Laws 1999; repealing section 2, chapter 187, Oregon Laws 1999; and declaring an emergency.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:

SECTION 1. ORS 419A.092 is amended to read:

419A.092. (1) Each local citizen review board shall be composed of at least three and not more than seven members appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon. If more than five members are appointed to a local citizen review board, the additional members serve as alternate members. Each member appointed shall be sworn in by a judge of the court to which the member is to be appointed to serve. The Chief Justice shall appoint local citizen review boards according to the following guidelines:

(a) Members of each local citizen review board shall be recruited from groups with special knowledge or interest in foster care, [and] child welfare and juvenile corrections, which may include but [shall] are not [be] limited to adoptive parents and members of the professions of law, medicine, psychology, social work, law enforcement, corrections and education;

(b) As far as practicable, members of each local citizen review board shall represent the various socioeconomic and ethnic groups of the area served;

(c) [No] A person employed by the State Office for Services to Children and Families, by any private agency regulated, certified, directed or licensed by or contracting with the office or by any juvenile court [shall] may not serve on any local citizen review board reviewing cases under ORS 419A.106;

(d) A person employed by the Oregon Youth Authority, by any private agency regulated, certified, directed or licensed by or contracting with the Oregon Youth Authority or by any juvenile court may not serve on any local citizen review board reviewing cases under section 1, chapter 187, Oregon Laws 1999;

[(d)] (e) The appointment of any individual member of a local citizen review board [shall] may be made only from a list approved by the presiding judge of the court to which the individual member is to be appointed to serve; and

[(e)] (f) Members of local citizen review boards must be domiciled or employed within the counties of the court that they are appointed to serve.

(2) Prior to reviewing cases, all persons appointed to serve as local citizen review board members [shall] must participate in a 16-hour orientation training program established and approved by the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon. In addition, each local citizen review board member must receive eight hours of training annually.

SECTION 2. Section 1, chapter 187, Oregon Laws 1999, is amended to read:

Sec. 1. (1) Subject to the availability of funds, a local citizen review board shall review cases of youth offenders in the custody of the Oregon Youth Authority and placed in substitute care. The local citizen review board shall focus on public safety, youth offender accountability and reformation in conducting the reviews.

(2) [No later than July 1, 1999,] The Judicial Department and the Oregon Youth Authority shall enter into an intergovernmental agreement regarding the reviews conducted under subsection (1) of this section. The intergovernmental agreement must outline the:

(a) Timing of the reviews;

(b) Participants to be invited to the reviews; and

(c) Process to be followed in conducting the reviews.

[(3) The agreement must specify that the reviews be conducted, at a minimum, at key transition points in a case. Key transition points include, but are not limited to, the initial placement of the youth offender and the point at which the youth offender is preparing to leave substitute care.]

[(4)] (3) The local citizen review board shall forward findings and recommendations generated at a review under subsection (1) of this section to the court and any other parties designated in the agreement under subsection (2) of this section. The court shall cause the findings and recommendations to become part of the juvenile court file for consideration by the juvenile court judge.

SECTION 3. Section 2, chapter 187, Oregon Laws 1999, is repealed.

SECTION 4. This 2001 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2001 Act takes effect July 1, 2001.

Approved by the Governor May 30, 2001

Filed in the office of Secretary of State May 30, 2001

Effective date July 1, 2001

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