Bill Summary: SB 1229

• Requires courts to credit juvenile offenders with time spent in detention prior to disposition, reducing their commitment period by the number of days detained in juvenile detention centers, alternative detention facilities, the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, police stations, courthouse lockups, or correctional facilities.

• Eliminates the exception that allowed 16-year-old children's statements to police to be admissible in cases transferred from youthful offender or criminal dockets, making all statements by 16-year-olds inadmissible unless proper warnings about rights and parental contact were provided.

• Restructures regulations for leave and release of juvenile delinquents by requiring an initial 60-day evaluation of fitness and security risk before any leave is granted, including trial leave not exceeding one day.

• Permits the Commissioner of Children and Families to waive the 60-day evaluation requirement for juvenile delinquents transferring between facilities if they have already completed a satisfactory evaluation at their previous facility.

• All provisions take effect October 1, 2011.