Arkansas Code Title 9, Subtitle 3, Chapter 28, Subchapter 2 - Youth Services

• § 9-28-201 - Legislative Intent and Purpose.
  The General Assembly recognizes that the state has a responsibility to provide its youth with appropriate services and programs to help decrease the number...
• § 9-28-202 - Creation of the Division of Youth Services -- Director.
  (a) There is hereby created the Division of Youth Services within the Department of Human Services.(b) The Governor may appoint the Director of the...
• § 9-28-203 - Division of Youth Services -- Powers and Duties.
  (a) The Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services shall perform the following functions and have the authority and responsibility to:...
• § 9-28-204 - Observation and Assessment Center.
  (a) The Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services shall establish and maintain an observation and assessment center for the reception,...
• § 9-28-205 - Youth Services Centers.
  (a) The physical facilities and programs at each of the youth services centers shall be designed and developed to be particularly suitable for the...
• § 9-28-206 - Disposition of Delinquent Juvenile.
  (a) When a circuit court or any other court having jurisdiction of a juvenile under eighteen (18) years of age finds a juvenile to...
• § 9-28-207 - Commitment to the Division of Youth Services.
  (a) When any youth is committed to the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services as authorized in this section, the...
• § 9-28-208 - Order of Commitment.
  (a) (1) An order of commitment to the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services shall state that the juvenile is...
• § 9-28-209 - Commitment Conditions and Terms.
  (a) (1) Upon commitment to the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services, a youth shall be delivered to the observation...
• § 9-28-210 - Release.
  (a) (1) In consideration of its juvenile correctional role, the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services shall establish objective guidelines...
• § 9-28-211 - Escape From Youth Services Center or Facilities.
  (a) If any delinquent youth committed to the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services escapes or absents himself or herself...
• § 9-28-212 - Sale of Goods Produced At Youth Services Centers -- Disposition of Funds.
  All funds derived from the sale of agricultural products, livestock, or manufactured articles, or from other activities carried on at the youth services centers...
• § 9-28-213 - [Repealed.]
• § 9-28-214 - Penalty for Escape.
  (a) If charged and found guilty as an adult for first degree escape, § 5-54-110, or second degree escape, § 5-54-111, a juvenile shall...
• § 9-28-215 - Departure Without Authorization -- Release of Information.
  (a) When a juvenile departs without authorization from a youth services center or other facility operated by the Division of Youth Services of the...
• § 9-28-216 - Separation of Juvenile Offenders -- Regulations -- Review.
  (a) The Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services shall promulgate regulations to require the separation of juvenile offenders committed to...
• § 9-28-217 - Juvenile Records Confidentiality.
  (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, reports, correspondence, memoranda, case histories, or other material that personally identifies a juvenile, including...

Last modified: November 15, 2016