HB 5642 Summary

• Replaces detention criteria for juveniles with a risk assessment instrument focusing on public safety risk, ensuring appearance in court, and need to hold for another jurisdiction, effective January 1, 2017.

• Requires detention risk assessment to be administered upon arrest and limits detention orders to seven days or until dispositional hearing, whichever is shorter, unless renewed after review hearing.

• Removes truancy and habitual truancy from the definition of "family with service needs" and eliminates mandatory court filing requirements for school truancy; requires schools to implement evidence-based truancy intervention models by August 15, 2018.

• Expands police training requirements on juvenile matters to include graduated sanctions, trauma handling, restorative justice, adolescent development, and risk assessment tools.

• Establishes community-based diversion system planning, school-based diversion initiatives for high-arrest schools, educational continuity plans for justice-involved children, and data integration across agencies through the Juvenile Justice Policy and Oversight Committee.