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Title 19, Children's Code

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1512 Use of juvenile detention beds
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A juvenile committed to the department of human services pursuant to article 3 of this title 19 must not be placed in a juvenile detention bed unless the juvenile is subject to an action proceeding pursuant to this article 2.5. Source: L. 2021: Entire article added with relocatio…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1513 Juvenile detention facilities - catchment areas
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(1) (a) The executive director of the department of human services and the state court administrator in the judicial department shall together establish geographical catchment areas for the juvenile detention facilities operated by or under contract with the department of human s…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1514 Juvenile detention bed cap
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For the fiscal year 2021-22 and each fiscal year thereafter, the number of available juvenile detention beds statewide is limited to two hundred fifteen. Source: L. 2021: (4) amended and (5) added, (SB 21-071), ch. 463, p. 3335, § 4, effective July 6; entire article added with re…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1515 Judicial districts - plans for the cap

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Each judicial district shall annually develop a plan to manage the number of juvenile detention beds allocated or reallocated to the judicial district by the working group pursuant to section 19-2.5-1405 (1)(a). The judicial district shall consider the emergency release guideline…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1516 Juvenile detention facilities - behavioral or mental health disorder screening

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(1) The executive director of the department of human services may implement a behavioral or mental health disorder screening program to screen juveniles held in juvenile detention facilities following adjudication. If the executive director chooses to implement a behavioral or m…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1517 Transfer of detention facilities and equipment

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Whenever the department of human services determines that any property, facilities, and equipment are no longer needed for juvenile detention facilities, the department shall transfer said property, facilities, and equipment back to the county without any cost to the county. Sour…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1518 Commitment to department of human services

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(1) (a) When a juvenile is placed in a community placement by the department of human services following commitment pursuant to section 19-2.5-1127 or 19-2.5-1103, an administrative review must be conducted every six months after the placement for as long as the juvenile remains …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1519 Contracts and agreements with public and private agencies

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(1) The executive director of the department of human services shall, subject to available appropriations, enter into agreements or contracts deemed necessary and appropriate with any governmental unit or agency or private facility or provider cooperating or willing to cooperate …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1520 Private facilities for juvenile offenders - requests for proposals - rules

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The executive director of the department of human services shall adopt rules and implement a process to issue requests for proposals with respect to contracts for designing, financing, acquiring, constructing, and operating private facilities for juvenile offenders. The process t…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1522 Juveniles committed to department of human services - emergency release

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The department of human services and the judicial department shall establish guidelines for the emergency release of juveniles committed to the custody of the department of human services during periods of crisis overcrowding of facilities operated by the department of human serv…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1523 Receiving centers - designation

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(1) The department of human services shall designate receiving centers for juvenile delinquents committed to the department pursuant to section 19-2.5-1127 or 19-2.5-1103. (2) If a change is made in the designation of a receiving center by the department of human services, it sha…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1524 Juveniles - medical benefits application assistance - county of residence - rules

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(1) Beginning as soon as practicable, but no later than January 1, 2009, no later than one hundred twenty days prior to release, commitment facility personnel or state personnel shall assist the parent or legal guardian of the following juveniles in applying for medical assistanc…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1525 Juveniles committed to department of human services - evaluation and placement

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(1) (a) Each juvenile committed to the custody of the department of human services shall be examined and evaluated by the department prior to institutional placement or other disposition. (b) The evaluation and examination must be conducted at a detention facility and be complete…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1526 Facility rules - academic and vocational courses

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(1) It is the duty of the department of human services to develop rules necessary for imparting instruction, preserving health, and enforcing discipline of juveniles committed to the department of human services. (2) The academic courses of study and vocational training and instr…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1527 Lookout Mountain school

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(1) There is established at Golden, Jefferson county, a training school known as the Lookout Mountain school, under the supervision and control of the department of human services. (2) The school shall provide care, education, training, and rehabilitation for juveniles ten years …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1528 Mount View school

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(1) There is established near Morrison, Jefferson county, a training school known as the Mount View school under the supervision and control of the department of human services. (2) The school shall provide care, education, training, and rehabilitation for juveniles ten years of …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1529 Youth camps

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The department of human services may establish and administer youth camps. Staff at youth camps shall provide care, education, training, rehabilitation, and supervision for juveniles ten years of age or older who have been committed to the custody of the department of human servi…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1530 Alternate placement

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The executive director of the department of human services may assign any juvenile placed by the department of human services in any facility established pursuant to section 19-2.5-1502, 19-2.5-1527, or 19-2.5-1528 to any other facility established by said sections for educationa…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1531 Juveniles committed to the department of human services - prohibition against the use of restraints on pregnant juveniles

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(1) The staff of the department of human services, in restraining a female juvenile committed to the department of human services or detained in a juvenile facility, shall use the least restrictive restraints necessary to ensure safety if the staff have actual knowledge or a reas…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-1532 Juveniles committed to department of human services - transfers

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(1) The executive director of the department of human services may transfer a juvenile committed pursuant to section 19-2.5-1127 or 19-2.5-1103 among the facilities established pursuant to sections 19-2.5-1502 and 19-2.5-1527 to 19-2.5-1529; except that, before the juvenile is tr…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-201 Preliminary investigation

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(1) Whenever it appears to a law enforcement officer or any other person that a juvenile is or appears to be within the court's jurisdiction, as provided in section 19-2.5-103, the law enforcement officer or other person may refer the matter conferring or appearing to confer juri…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-202 Consent to search

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In determining the voluntariness of a juvenile's consent to a search or seizure, the court shall consider the totality of the circumstances. Source: L. 2021: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 21-059), ch. 136, p. 567, § 2, effective October 1.

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-203 Statements - definitions

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(1) A statement or admission of a juvenile made as a result of the custodial interrogation of the juvenile by a law enforcement official concerning delinquent acts alleged to have been committed by the juvenile are not admissible in evidence against the juvenile unless a parent, …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-204 Issuance of a lawful warrant taking a juvenile into custody

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(1) A lawful warrant taking a juvenile into custody may be issued pursuant to this section by any judge of a court of record or by a juvenile magistrate upon receipt of an affidavit relating facts sufficient to establish probable cause to believe that a delinquent act has been co…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-205 Search warrants - issuance - grounds

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(1) A search warrant authorized by this section may be issued by any judge of a court of record or by a juvenile magistrate. (2) A search warrant may be issued pursuant to this section to search for and seize any property: (a) That is stolen or embezzled; or (b) That is designed …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-206 Search warrants - application

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(1) A search warrant shall issue only on affidavit sworn to or affirmed before the judge or juvenile magistrate and relating facts sufficient to: (a) Identify or describe, as nearly as may be, the premises, person, place, or thing to be searched; (b) Identify or describe, as near…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-207 Fingerprinting - juvenile under arrest - ordered by court - definition

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(1) For purposes of this section, "juvenile" means any juvenile who is charged with committing, summoned, or held in detention for committing a delinquent act that constitutes a felony, a class 1 misdemeanor, or a misdemeanor pursuant to section 42-4-1301 or a crime, the underlyi…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-208 Petty tickets - summons - contracts - data

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(1) (a) If a law enforcement officer contacts a juvenile ten years of age or older for a delinquent act that would be a petty offense if committed by an adult or a municipal ordinance violation, the officer may issue the juvenile a petty ticket that requires the juvenile to go th…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-209 Taking juvenile into custody

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(1) A juvenile may be taken into temporary custody by a law enforcement officer without order of the court when there are reasonable grounds to believe that the juvenile has committed a delinquent act. (2) A juvenile may be taken into temporary custody by a law enforcement office…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-301 Legislative declaration

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The general assembly declares that the placement of children and juveniles in a detention facility exacts a negative impact on the mental and physical well-being of the child or juvenile, and such detention may make it more likely that the child or juvenile will reoffend. Childre…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-302 Local juvenile services planning committee - creation - duties - identification and notification of dually identified crossover youth

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(1) If all of the boards of commissioners of each county or the city council of each city and county in a judicial district agree, there may be created in the judicial district a local juvenile services planning committee that is appointed by the chief judge of the judicial distr…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-303 Duty of officer - screening teams - notification - release or detention

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(1) When a juvenile is taken into temporary custody and not released pending charges, the officer shall notify the screening team for the judicial district in which the juvenile is taken into custody. The screening team shall notify the juvenile's parent, guardian, or legal custo…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-304 Limitations on detention

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(1) Detention is not permitted for the following: (a) Juveniles who have not committed, or have not been accused of committing, a delinquent act unless otherwise found in contempt of court; (b) Delinquent and nondelinquent juveniles who have been placed in the legal custody of a …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-305 Detention and shelter - hearing - time limits - findings - review - guardian ad litem appointed - confinement with adult offenders - restrictions

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(1) Unless placement is prohibited pursuant to section 19-2.5-304, when a juvenile is placed in a detention facility, in a temporary holding facility, or in a temporary shelter facility designated by the court, the screening team shall promptly notify the court, the district atto…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-306 Conditions of release - personal recognizance bond

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(1) Unless the district attorney consents, a juvenile charged or accused of having committed a delinquent act that constitutes a felony or a class 1 misdemeanor shall not be released without an unsecured personal recognizance bond, if: (a) The juvenile has been found guilty of a …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-401 Diversion

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As an alternative to a petition filed pursuant to section 19-2.5-502, an adjudicatory trial pursuant to part 9 of this article 2.5, or disposition of a juvenile delinquent pursuant to section 19-2.5-1103, the district attorney may agree to allow a juvenile to participate in a div…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-402 Juvenile diversion program - authorized - report - allocation of money - legislative declaration - definitions

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(1) (a) In order to more fully implement the stated objectives of this title 19, the general assembly declares its intent to establish a juvenile diversion program that integrates restorative justice practices to provide community-based alternatives to the formal court system to …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-403 Juvenile diversion cash fund - creation

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(1) Fifty percent of the money collected pursuant to section 18-4-509 (2)(a) must be transmitted to the state treasurer, who shall credit the same to the juvenile diversion cash fund, which fund is created and referred to in this section as the "fund". The money in the fund is su…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-501 Summons - issuance - contents - service - legislative declaration

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(1) After a petition has been filed, the court shall promptly issue a summons reciting briefly the substance of the petition. The summons must also state, in a separate box, in bold, and in capitalized letters, the following text, inserting the telephone number and address of the…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-502 Petition initiation - petition form and content

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(1) If the district attorney determines that the interests of the juvenile or of the community require that further action be taken, the district attorney may file a petition in delinquency on the form specified in subsections (3), (4), and (5) of this section, which the court sh…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-503 Aggravated juvenile offender

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(1) (a) In any action in delinquency alleging that a juvenile is an aggravated juvenile offender, as described in section 19-2.5-1125 (4), the petition must allege by separate count that the juvenile is an aggravated juvenile offender and that increased commitment is authorized. …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-601 Appointment of guardian ad litem

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The court may appoint a guardian ad litem pursuant to section 19-1-111 for a juvenile in a proceeding brought pursuant to this article 2.5. Source: L. 2021: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 21-059), ch. 136, p. 599, § 2, effective October 1.

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-602 General procedure for juvenile hearings

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(1) The Colorado rules of juvenile procedure apply in all proceedings conducted pursuant to this article 2.5. (2) Hearings must be held before the court without a jury, except as set forth in sections 19-2.5-610 and 19-2.5-503 (3), and may be conducted in an informal manner. (3) …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-604 Open hearings

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The general public must not be excluded from hearings held pursuant to this article 2.5 unless the court determines that it is in the best interest of the juvenile or of the community to exclude the general public. In such event, the court shall admit only such persons as have an…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-605 Advisement - right to counsel - waiver of right to counsel - definition

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(1) (a) At the juvenile's first appearance before the court, after the detention hearing or at the first appearance if the juvenile appears on a summons, the court shall advise the juvenile and the juvenile's parents, guardian, or other legal custodian of the juvenile's constitut…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-606 Preadjudication service program - creation

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(1) (a) The chief judge of any judicial district may issue an order that any juvenile who applies for preadjudication release be evaluated for placement by a preadjudication service program established pursuant to this section. In evaluating the juvenile, the service program shal…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-607 Mandatory protection order

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(1) (a) A mandatory protection order is created against any juvenile charged with the commission of a delinquent act and the juvenile's parents or legal guardian. The order remains in effect from the time that the juvenile is advised of the juvenile's rights and informed of the o…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-608 Fingerprinting - ordered by court - definition

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(1) For purposes of this section, "juvenile" means any juvenile who is charged with committing, summoned, or held in detention for committing a delinquent act that constitutes a felony, a class 1 misdemeanor, or a misdemeanor pursuant to section 42-4-1301 or a crime, the underlyi…

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-609 Preliminary hearing - dispositional hearing

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(1) The district attorney or a juvenile who is accused in a petition of a delinquent act that constitutes a class 1, 2, or 3 felony may demand and receive a preliminary hearing to determine if there is probable cause to believe that the delinquent act alleged in the petition was …

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-2.5-610 Right to jury trial

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(1) In any action in delinquency in which a juvenile is alleged to be an aggravated juvenile offender, as described in section 19-2.5-1125, or is alleged to have committed an act that would constitute a crime of violence, as defined in section 18-1.3-406, if committed by an adult…