Or. Rev. Stat. § 420.017

      420.017 Diversion plan; administration; rules. (1) The Oregon Youth Authority shall work collaboratively with the juvenile departments to divert youths and adjudicated youths from commitment to youth correction facilities to alternative community services.

      (2) The juvenile departments shall develop local diversion plans for services needed to divert the commitment of youths and adjudicated youths from youth correction facilities, and how these services are to be administered if funds are provided. A local diversion plan must include the process the juvenile department will use to provide hearings officers and to conduct preliminary parole revocation hearings.

      (3) The youth authority shall administer and coordinate local juvenile diversion plans and plans for juvenile crime prevention basic services, as described by the youth authority by rule, with county juvenile departments. Juvenile crime prevention basic services may include detention and other juvenile department services.

      (4) The youth authority, in consultation with county juvenile departments and the Youth Development Division, shall adopt rules to coordinate and align the high-risk juvenile crime prevention plans developed under ORS 417.855 and the juvenile diversion plans and plans for juvenile crime prevention basic services described in this section. [1985 c.500 §7; 1993 c.676 §47; 1993 c.742 §88; 1995 c.422 §91; 1995 c.781 §44; 2012 c.37 §98; 2021 c.267 §1; 2023 c.9 §34; 2025 c.263 §2]