O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 49-5-155 (2019)

Effect of article on Department of Juvenile Justice; office as recipient entity for federal grants

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(a) This article shall in no way preempt, duplicate, or supersede services, duties, or other functions performed pursuant to law or regulations by the Department of Juvenile Justice.

(b) Other than the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Governor’s Office for Children and Families created pursuant to Code Section 49-5-132 and the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council shall be the only other authorized controlling recipient entity for grants under the United States Department of Justice Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Grants.

History

Code 1981, § 49-5-155, enacted by Ga. L. 1987, p. 1576, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 435, § 13; Ga. L. 1992, p. 1983, § 34; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1453, § 1; Ga. L. 2008, p. 568, § 12/HB 1054; Ga. L. 2015, p. 890, § 8/HB 263.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2008, p. 568, § 1/HB 1054, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act may be cited as the ‘Chil-

dren and Family Services Strengthening Act of 2008.’” Ga. L. 2008, p. 568, § 2, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “The General Assembly finds that well-intentioned efforts over the years have resulted in the creation of several agencies focused on preventing child abuse and juvenile delinquency, on serving at-risk families and troubled youth, and on promoting the improvement of our state’s child welfare

system. The General Assembly further finds that the work of some of these agencies overlaps, and that the at-risk families and troubled children of Georgia will be more efficiently and effectively served by consolidating the Children and Youth Coordinating Council with the Children’s Trust Fund Commission, by placing the

functions of the Georgia Child Fatality Review Panel under the supervision of the Child Advocate for the Protection of Children, and by encouraging these consolidated agencies to collaborate to create a consistent vision for serving the needs of our state’s families in need.”

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