(1) The executive director of the department of human services and the state court administrator in the judicial department, or a designee of such persons, in consultation with the division of criminal justice of the department of public safety, the office of state planning and budgeting, the Colorado district attorneys council, and law enforcement representatives shall form a working group which shall carry out the following duties:
The working group established pursuant to this subsection (1) shall annually allocatethe number of juvenile detention beds to each catchment area in the state created pursuant to section 19-2-402.5, based on the number of juvenile beds established pursuant to section 19-21201. Once the allocation of juvenile detention beds is made to the catchment areas, the working group shall allocate detention beds within the catchment areas to the judicial districts within each catchment area. Judicial districts shall not exceed the number of beds allocated to them except for circumstances provided for in paragraph (b) of this subsection (1).
The working group shall develop a mechanism for judicial districts within the samecatchment area to loan detention beds to other judicial districts within the catchment area in cases of need.
The working group shall develop emergency release guidelines that shall be used byeach judicial district to prevent placement of a juvenile in a juvenile detention facility in excess of the number of beds allocated to the judicial district.
The working group shall develop juvenile detention placement guidelines for eachjudicial district to use in complying with the number of juvenile detention beds allocated to the judicial district.
Source: L. 2003: Entire part added, p. 1522, § 1, effective May 1.