Title 49

As used in this Code section, the term “family attention home” means a private family home that has contracted with the Department of Juvenile Justice to provide 24 hour, short-term care for youth in the custody of the department and placed by the department in the home. Said you…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term “apparel” includes eyeglasses, hearing aids, clothing, and similar items worn on the person of the employee. (b) When action by a youth under the control and custody of the department results in damage to an item of apparel, the departme…

Guard lines shall be established by the commissioner or his or her designated representative in charge at the various juvenile detention centers and youth development centers in the same manner that land lines are established, except that, at each corner of the lines, signs must …

(a) As used in this Code section, the term “guard lines” means the lines established pursuant to Code Section 49-4A-15. (b) It shall be unlawful for any person to cause to be introduced across guard lines or to come inside such guard lines with: (1) A gun, pistol, knife, or any o…

(a)(1) Without the knowledge and consent of the commissioner or the director in charge of any juvenile detention facility, it shall be unlawful for any person to take into or cause to be introduced into such facility any item which such person has been directed not to take into s…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) “Director” means the commissioner or any director of a juvenile detention center or his or her designee, or any other person who is responsible for the overall management and operation of a center. (2) “Juvenile detention center” me…

(a)(1) There is created a Board of Juvenile Justice which shall establish the general policy to be followed by the Department of Juvenile Justice created in this chapter. The Board of Juvenile Justice shall be the successor entity to the Board of Children and Youth Services and t…

(a) There is created the Department of Juvenile Justice and the position of commissioner of juvenile justice. The commissioner shall be the chief administrative officer of the department and shall be both appointed and removed by the board, subject to the approval of the Governor…

It is the purpose of this chapter to establish the department as the agency to administer, supervise, and manage juvenile detention facilities. History. Code 1981, § 49-4A-4, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 1983, § 24; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1453, § 7; Ga. L. 2013, p. 294, § 3-4/HB 242.

(a) The department shall carry out all functions and exercise all powers relating to the administration, supervision, and management of juvenile detention facilities, and jurisdiction over such juvenile detention facilities is vested in the department. (b) Any employees of the De…

(a) The board shall adopt rules and regulations for the government, operation, administration, and maintenance of juvenile detention facilities and may also adopt such other rules and regulations for the government and operation of the department as the board may deem necessary c…

(a) The department shall be authorized to: (1) Accept for detention in a juvenile detention facility any child who is committed to the department under Article 6 of Chapter 11 of Title 15; (2) Provide probation and other court services for children pursuant to a request from a co…

(a) When the court does not release a delinquent child unconditionally or place him or her on probation or in a suitable public or private institution or agency, the court may commit such child to the department as provided in Article 6 of Chapter 11 of Title 15; provided, howeve…

(a) Any child who has previously been adjudged to have committed an act which is a felony if tried in a superior court and who, on a second or subsequent occasion, is convicted of a felony in a superior court may, in the discretion of the court, be sentenced into the custody of t…