Conn. Practice Book § 26-1 (2026)

Sec. 26-1 direct staff supervision, surveillance enhance- ments and physical barriers that allow for close supervision and controlled movement in a treat- ment setting. (v) ‘‘Service Memorandum’’ means a written report completed by a clinical coordinator in response to a court order for a forensic clinical assessment. (w) ‘‘Specific steps’’ means those judicially determined steps the parent or guardian and the Commissioner of the Department of Children and Families shall take in order for the parent or guard- ian to retain or regain custody of a child or youth. (x) ‘‘Staff-secure facility’’ means a residential facility: (1) that does not include construction fea- tures designed to physically restrict the move- ments and activities of juvenile residents who are placed therein; (2) that may establish reasonable rules restricting entrance to and egress from the facility; and (3) in which the movements and activi- ties of individual juvenile residents may, for treat- ment purposes, be restricted or subject to control through the use of intensive staff supervision. (y) ‘‘Staff-secure residential facility’’ means a residential facility that provides residential treat- ment for a child or youth in a structured setting monitored by staff. (z) ‘‘Supervision’’ includes: (1) ‘‘Nonjudicial supervision,’’ a legal status without the filing of a petition or a court conviction or adjudication but following the child’s or youth’s admission to a com- plaint wherein a probation officer exercises super- vision over the child or youth with the consent of the child or youth and the parent; (2) ‘‘Protective supervision,’’ a disposition following adjudication in neglected, abused or uncared for cases created by an order of the judicial authority requesting a supervising agency other than the court to assume the responsibility of furthering the welfare of the family and best interests of the child or youth when the child’s or youth’s place of abode remains with the parent or any suitable or worthy person, or when the judicial authority vests cus- tody or guardianship in another suitable and wor- thy person, subject to the continuing jurisdiction of the court; and (3) ‘‘Judicial supervision,’’ a legal status similar to probation for a child or youth subject to supervision pursuant to an order of sus- pended delinquency proceedings under General Statutes § 46b-133b or § 46b-133e. (aa) ‘‘Take into Custody Order’’ means an order by a judicial authority that a child or youth be taken into custody and immediately turned over to a Juvenile Residential Center Superintendent where 334 probable cause has been found that the child or youth has committed a delinquent act, there is no less restrictive alternative available, and the child or youth meets the criteria set forth in Section 31a-13. (P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. 1023.1.) (Amended June 24, 2002, to take effect Jan. 1, 2003; amended June 30, 2008, to take effect Jan. 1, 2009; amended June 21, 2010, to take effect Jan. 1, 2011; amended June 20, 2011, to take effect Jan. 1, 2012; amended June 15, 2012, to take effect Jan. 1, 2013; amended June 13, 2014, to take effect Jan. 1, 2015; amended June 13, 2019, to take effect Jan. 1, 2020; amended June 11, 2021, to take effect Jan. 1, 2022; amended June 10, 2022, to take effect Jan. 1, 2023; amended June 14, 2024, to take effect Jan. 1, 2025.)