Judicial district drug offender treatment boards.

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(1) Each judicial district shall create a drug offender treatment board, whose membership is knowledgeable about adult criminal and juvenile justice matters, consisting of:

  1. The district attorney serving the judicial district or his or her designee;

  2. The chief public defender serving the judicial district or his or her designee;

  3. The chair of the local community corrections board or his or her designee;

  4. A parole officer working in the judicial district chosen by the director of the department of corrections or his or her designee;

  5. A sheriff that serves the judicial district chosen by the chief judge of the judicialdistrict;

  6. A representative of a drug court or similar problem-solving court if such a courtexists in the judicial district chosen by the chief judge of the judicial district;

  7. A person with expertise in juvenile matters chosen by the chief judge of the judicialdistrict; and

  8. A probation officer working in the judicial district chosen by the chief judge of thejudicial district.

  1. The board shall give priority to drug court funding if the jurisdiction operates a drugcourt and the drug court operates with best evidence-based or promising practices. Each drug offender treatment board shall annually make recommendations to the correctional treatment board for funding local assessed treatment needs.

  2. Each judicial district's drug offender treatment board may adopt rules and guidelinesas necessary to perform the functions of the board.

  3. and (5) Repealed.

Source: L. 2003: Entire section added, p. 2688, § 6, effective July 1. L. 2008: (2) amended, p. 1890, § 58, effective August 5. L. 2009: (5) repealed, (SB 09-292), ch. 369, p. 1949, § 33, effective August 5. L. 2012: (1) and (2) amended and (4) repealed, (HB 12-1310), ch. 268, p. 1410, § 36, effective June 7.

Cross references: For the legislative intent contained in the 2003 act enacting this section, see section 1 of chapter 424, Session Laws of Colorado 2003.


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