HF4048 Summary

• Authorizes Department of Corrections to disclose city and five-digit zip code of offender's residency to victims of qualified domestic violence offenses upon or after release, unless disclosure creates safety risk or offender not under correctional supervision.

• Restricts correctional officers in adult facilities from using choke holds, prone restraints, tying limbs together, or face-down vehicle transport except as directed by medical professionals; limits deadly force justification to specific threat scenarios articulated with specificity.

• Allows supervising agents and prosecutors to share private or confidential correctional data for purposes of sentence adjustment petitions; clarifies electronic filing and serving of detainers to replace or supplement certified mail procedures.

• Modifies health care peer review committee membership to include community physicians, psychiatry director, pharmacists, and Office of Special Investigations representative; permits medical director's designee to make health care decisions for incarcerated individuals.

• Adds local advisory board input requirement for comprehensive community supervision and probation services plans submitted for state funding; changes probation report deadline from January 15 to May 1; allows victims to submit private statements to Supervised Release Board in closed session.