Juvenile records; identification of children receiving coordinated services. Provides that, for the purpose of disclosing records, information, and statistical registries of the Department of Social Services, local departments of social services, and all child-welfare agencies concerning social services, a person having a legitimate interest in child-protective services records includes the staff of (i) a court services unit, (ii) the Department of Juvenile Justice, (iii) a local community services board, or (iv) the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services who are providing treatment, services, or care for a child who is the subject of such records for a purpose relevant to the provision of the treatment, services, or care when the local agencies have entered into a formal agreement with the Department of Juvenile Justice to provide coordinated services to such children. The bill provides that such formal agreements may allow the local agencies and the Department of Juvenile Justice to immediately identify children who may be receiving or who have received treatment, services, or care from the local agencies and the Department of Juvenile Justice. The bill also provides that the Department of Juvenile Justice shall develop and biennially update a model memorandum of understanding setting forth the respective roles and responsibilities of the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, the Department of Social Services, the court service units, the local departments of social services, and the community services boards or behavioral health authorities regarding the sharing of information derived from juvenile records for purposes of identifying juveniles who may be receiving or who have received treatment, services, or care from the local agencies, the Department of Juvenile Justice, or the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. The bill provides that the model memorandum of understanding developed by the Department of Juvenile Justice may satisfy the requirement for a formal agreement, but it shall be reviewed by the chief judge of the circuit court, or his designee, where such local agencies are located before such agreement takes effect. This bill is a recommendation of the Commission on Youth.
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Celebrating the life of the Honorable FloraLonette Davis Crittenden.
Commending Bob Brown.
Group Violence Intervention Board; Divisionof Group Violence Intervention; Project Ceasefire Grant Fund; ProjectExit Grant Fund; report. Establishes the Group Violence InterventionBoard to coordinate and assist federal, state, and local group violenceintervention efforts. The bill also establishes within the Departmentof Criminal Justice Services (the Department) the Division of GroupViolence Intervention (the Division), to be headed by an executivedirector appointed by the Director of the Department. The bill providesthat the Division is responsible for (i) coordinating the effortsof members of state and local law enforcement, community members,and social services providers to combat group violence; (ii) servingas a clearinghouse for research, best practices, and strategies thatmay be utilized in the implementation, execution, and evaluationof group violence interventions; and (iii) implementing and administeringvarious federal, state, and local grant funds that aid group violenceintervention efforts. Finally, the bill creates the Project CeasefireGrant Fund, which provides money to organizations that are involvedin group violence intervention efforts, and creates the Project ExitGrant Fund, which provides money to organizations that assist formergang members or individuals attempting to leave gangs.
Search warrants; execution. Provides thata law-enforcement officer may seek, execute, or participate in the execution of a no-knock warrant if authorized by a judge for goodcause shown by particularized facts. The bill also clarifies thata search warrant for any place of abode shall require that at leastone law-enforcement officer be recognizable and identifiable as auniformed law-enforcement officer and provide audible notice of hisauthority and purpose reasonably designed to be heard by the occupantsof such place to be searched prior to the execution of such searchwarrant. The bill changes the hours of execution of a search warrantfor the search of any place of abode from the daytime hours between8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. to between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. The billalso provides that a magistrate may authorize the execution of suchsearch warrant at another time as necessary for law-enforcement officersto obtain the objects or persons described in the warrant or in theinterest of public safety. Currently, a judge or a magistrate, ifa judge is not available, may authorize the execution of such searchwarrant at another time. The bill removes provisions stating thatany evidence obtained from a search warrant in violation of any ofthe execution requirements shall not be admitted into evidence forthe Commonwealth in any prosecution.
Celebrating the life of Adeline Rose Krizek.
Celebrating the life of Eugene L. Krizek.
Celebrating the life of Adam Jeffery Oakes.
Commending the Boys & Girls Clubs of Harrisonburg& Rockingham County.
Celebrating the life of Fred Ellsworth Eberly.