{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-10a-10a-2-7-501","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 10A, § 10A-2-7-501","heading":"Intake and probation services - Services related to","body":"juvenile offenders.\n\nA. The Office of Juvenile Affairs shall provide intake and\n\nprobation services for juveniles in all counties not having a\n\njuvenile bureau and parole services in all counties of the state and\n\nmay enter into agreements to supplement probationary services to\n\njuveniles in any county. The Office of Juvenile Affairs may\n\nparticipate in federal programs for juvenile probation officers, and\n\nmay apply for, receive, use and administer federal funds for such\n\npurpose.\n\nB. A preadjudicatory substance abuse assessment of a child may\n\nbe conducted in conjunction with a court intake or preliminary\n\ninquiry pursuant to an alleged delinquent act or upon admission to a\n\njuvenile detention facility through the use of diagnostic tools\n\nincluding, but not limited to, urinalysis, structured interviews or\n\nsubstance abuse projective testing instruments.\n\n1. Information gained from the substance abuse assessment\n\npursuant to this subsection shall be used only for substance abuse\n\ntreatment and for no other purpose. The results shall not be used\n\nin any evidentiary or fact-finding hearing in a juvenile proceeding\n\nor as the sole basis for the revocation of a community-based\n\nplacement or participation in a community-based program.\n\n2. The results of the substance abuse assessment may be given\n\nto the intake, probation or parole counselor of the child, the\n\nparent or guardian of the child or to the attorney of the child. In\n\naccordance with the Juvenile Offender Tracking Program and Section\n\n620.6 of Title 10 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the counselor may also\n\nprovide the results of the substance abuse assessment to medical\n\npersonnel, therapists, school personnel or others for use in the\n\ntreatment and rehabilitation of the child.\n\nC. The Office of Juvenile Affairs and the juvenile bureaus\n\nshall implement:\n\n1. Use of a uniform court intake risk and needs assessment for\n\nchildren alleged or adjudicated to be delinquent;\n\n2. The imposition of administrative sanctions for the violation\n\nof a condition of probation or parole;\n\n3. A case management system for ensuring appropriate:\n\na. diversion of youth from the juvenile justice system,\n\nb. services for and supervision of all youth on\n\npreadjudicatory or postadjudicatory probation or on\n\nparole, and for juvenile offenders in the custody of\n\nthe Office of Juvenile Affairs, and\n\nc. intensive supervision of juvenile offenders and\n\ncommunication between law enforcement and juvenile\n\ncourt personnel and others regarding such offenders;\n\nand\n\n4. Guidelines for juvenile court personnel recommendations to\n\ndistrict attorneys regarding the disposition of individual cases by\n\ndistrict attorneys.\n\nD. 1. The Office of Juvenile Affairs shall establish directly\n\nand by contract, services including, but not limited to:\n\na. misdemeanor and nonserious first-time offender\n\nprograms,\n\nb. tracking and mentor services,\n\nc. weekend detention,\n\nd. five-day out-of-home sanction placements,\n\ne. short-term thirty-day intensive, highly structured\n\nplacements,\n\nf. transitional programs,\n\ng. substance abuse treatment and diagnostic and\n\nevaluation programs, and\n\nh. day treatment programs.\n\n2. In implementing these services, the Office of Juvenile\n\nAffairs shall give priority to those areas of the state having the\n\nhighest incidences of juvenile crime and delinquency.\n\nE. 1. The following entities shall conduct, upon adjudication\n\nof a child as a delinquent or in need of supervision unless such\n\nchild has been previously assessed within the six (6) months prior\n\nto such intake, a literacy skills assessment:\n\na. the Office of Juvenile Affairs,\n\nb. a first-time offender program within a designated\n\nyouth services agency,\n\nc. any metropolitan county juvenile bureau, or\n\nd. any county operating a juvenile bureau.\n\n2. Such assessment shall be conducted through the use of\npervision unless such\n\nchild has been previously assessed within the six (6) months prior\n\nto such intake, a literacy skills assessment:\n\na. the Office of Juvenile Affairs,\n\nb. a first-time offender program within a designated\n\nyouth services agency,\n\nc. any metropolitan county juvenile bureau, or\n\nd. any county operating a juvenile bureau.\n\n2. Such assessment shall be conducted through the use of\n\ndiagnostic tools which include, but are not limited to:\n\na. structured interviews,\n\nb. standardized literacy testing instruments which\n\nmeasure the educational proficiency of the child, and\n\nc. any other measure used to determine:\n\n(1) whether a child is reading at an age-appropriate\n\nlevel, and\n\n(2) the capacity of the child to read at such level.\n\n3. The results of the literacy skills assessment required\n\npursuant to this subsection shall be made available to the court by\n\nthe district attorney for use in the disposition phase; provided,\n\nhowever, the results shall not be used in any evidentiary or fact-\n\nfinding hearing in a juvenile proceeding to determine whether a\n\njuvenile should be adjudicated. Provided, further, such results\n\nshall not be used as the sole basis for the revocation of a\n\ncommunity-based placement or participation in a community-based\n\nprogram.\n\n4. a. Upon request, the results of the literacy skills\n\nassessment shall be given to the following:\n\n(1) the child's intake, probation or parole\n\ncounselor,\n\n(2) the parent or guardian of the child, or\n\n(3) the child's attorney.\n\nb. In accordance with the Juvenile Offender Tracking\n\nProgram and Section 620.6 of Title 10 of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes, the counselor may also provide the results\n\nof the literacy skills assessment to therapists,\n\nschool personnel or others for use in the training and\n\nrehabilitation of the child.\n\n5. a. If the child is a juvenile placed in an institution or\n\nfacility operated by the Office of Juvenile Affairs,\n\nthe child shall be assessed and a literacy improvement\n\nprogram shall be implemented in accordance with\n\nSections 2-7-601 and 2-7-603 of this title.\n\nb. If the child is adjudicated delinquent or in need of\n\nsupervision or is being detained as part of a deferral\n\nof prosecution agreement, deferral to file agreement\n\nor a deferral sentence agreement, and the results of\n\nthe literacy skills assessment show that the child is\n\nnot reading at an age-appropriate level but has the\n\ncapacity to improve his or her reading skills, the\n\nchild shall be required to actively participate in a\n\nliteracy skills improvement program which may include,\n\nbut not be limited to, a program of instruction\n\nthrough a public or private school, including any\n\ntechnology center school, of this state or any other\n\nstate. The child shall provide documentation of\n\nsubstantial quantifiable literacy improvement,\n\nsufficient to demonstrate reading proficiency at an\n\nage-appropriate or developmentally appropriate level;\n\nprovided, however, failure to demonstrate substantial\n\nquantifiable literacy improvement shall not be the\n\nsole basis for not dismissing a case against a child.","path":["OK Code","Title 10A"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os10A.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"b1c9aeb93ede6c776664723a66d7eb39d400c0669306e6d1ea6605c2afac5508","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-10a-10a-2-7-402","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-10a-10a-2-7-502"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}