{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-10a-10a-2-7-611","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 10A, § 10A-2-7-611","heading":"Secure facilities - Certification - Violations","body":"A. For purposes of this section, “electronic communication”\n\nmeans any transfer of signs, signals, writings, images, sounds,\n\ndata, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or part by\n\na wire, radio, electromagnetic, photo-electronic, or photo-optical\n\nsystem, and includes, but is not limited to, the transfer of that\n\ncommunication through the Internet.\n\nB. 1. The Office of Juvenile Affairs shall certify all secure\n\nfacilities, including secure facilities collocated with adult\n\nfacilities or juvenile detention facilities. Such collocated\n\nfacilities shall meet applicable criteria of the federal Juvenile\n\nJustice Delinquency Prevention Act for collocation. To be\n\ncertified, a secure facility shall be required to meet standards for\n\ncertification promulgated by the Board of Juvenile Affairs.\n\n2. Any person, including a resident of the facility, who\n\nknowingly, willfully and without authority brings into or has in his\n\nor her possession in any certified secure facility or certified\n\njuvenile detention facility any gun, knife, bomb or other dangerous\n\ninstrument, any controlled dangerous substance as defined by Section\n\n2-101 et seq. of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, any intoxicating\n\nbeverage or low-point beer as defined by Sections 163.1 and 163.2 of\n\nTitle 37 of the Oklahoma Statutes, any cellular phone or electronic\n\ndevice capable of sending or receiving any electronic communication,\n\nmoney, or financial documents for a person other than the juvenile\n\nor youthful offender or relative of the juvenile or youthful\n\noffender, shall be guilty of a felony and is subject to imprisonment\n\nin the custody of the Department of Corrections for not less than\n\none (1) year or more than five (5) years, or a fine of not less than\n\nOne Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or more than One Thousand Dollars\n\n($1,000.00), or both such fine and imprisonment.\n\nC. Any person, including a resident of the facility, who\n\nknowingly, willfully and without authority brings into or has in his\n\nor her possession in any certified secure facility or certified\n\njuvenile detention facility any cigarettes, cigars, snuff, chewing\n\ntobacco, or any other form of tobacco product shall, upon\n\nconviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in\n\nthe county jail not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not\n\nexceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by both such fine and\n\nimprisonment.","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":"f45e828ea78c7cb62342642771a263bcd1ca0a544b8826b661ab41389bc3fda6","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-10a-10a-2-7-610","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-10a-10a-2-7-612"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}