16.1-309.4 - Statewide plan for juvenile services. - Virginia Statutes

§ 16.1-309.4. Statewide plan for juvenile services.

It shall be the duty of the Department of Juvenile Justice to devise, developand promulgate a statewide plan for the establishment and maintenance of arange of institutional and community-based, diversion, predispositional andpostdispositional services to be reasonably accessible to each court. TheDepartment shall be responsible for the collection and dissemination of therequired court data necessary for the development of the plan. The plan shallutilize the information provided by local plans submitted under § 16.1-309.3.The plan shall be submitted to the Board on or before July 1 in odd-numberedyears. The plan shall include a biennial forecast with appropriate annualupdates as may be required of future juvenile correctional center anddetention home needs.

(1995, cc. 698, 840; 1996, cc. 671, 682, 755, 914.)