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16-10-139. Specialty court program evaluation and approval — Definition.
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16-10-139. Specialty court program evaluation and approval — Definition.
(a) As used in this section, “specialty court program” means one of the following:
(1) A pre-adjudication program under § 5-4-901 et seq.;
(2) An approved drug court program under the Arkansas Drug Court Act, § 16-98-301 et seq.;
(3) The Swift and Certain Accountability on Probation Pilot Program under § 16-93-1701 et seq.; and
(4) Any other specialty court program that has been approved by the Supreme Court, including without limitation specialty court programs known as:
(A) A DWI court;
(B) A mental health court;
(C) A veteran's court;
(D) A juvenile drug court;
(E) A “HOPE” court;
(F) A “smarter sentencing” court; and
(G) A mental health crisis intervention center.
(b) A specialty court program operated by a circuit court or district court must be approved by the Supreme Court in the administrative plan submitted under Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 14.
(c)(1) The Specialty Court Program Advisory Committee shall evaluate and make findings with respect to all specialty court programs operated by a circuit court or district court in this state and refer the findings to the Supreme Court.
(2) An evaluation under this section shall reflect nationally recognized and peer-reviewed standards for each particular type of specialty court program.
(3) The Specialty Court Program Advisory Committee shall also:
(A) Establish, implement, and operate a uniform specialty court program evaluation process to ensure specialty court program resources are uniformly directed to high-risk and medium-risk offenders and that specialty court programs provide effective and proven practices that reduce recidivism, as well as other factors such as substance dependency, among partici
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-10-139
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16-10-139. Specialty court program evaluation and approval — Definition.
(a) As used in this section, “specialty court program” means one of the following:
(1) A pre-adjudication program under § 5-4-901 et seq.;
(2) An approved drug court program under the Arkansas Drug Court Act, § 16-98-301 et seq.;
(3) The Swift and Certain Accountability on Probation Pilot Program under § 16-93-1701 et seq.; and
(4) Any other specialty court program that has been approved by the Supreme Court, including without limitation specialty court programs known as:
(A) A DWI court;
(B) A mental health court;
(C) A veteran's court;
(D) A juvenile drug court;
(E) A “HOPE” court;
(F) A “smarter sentencing” court; and
(G) A mental health crisis intervention center.
(b) A specialty court program operated by a circuit court or district court must be approved by the Supreme Court in the administrative plan submitted under Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 14.
(c)(1) The Specialty Court Program Advisory Committee shall evaluate and make findings with respect to all specialty court programs operated by a circuit court or district court in this state and refer the findings to the Supreme Court.
(2) An evaluation under this section shall reflect nationally recognized and peer-reviewed standards for each particular type of specialty court program.
(3) The Specialty Court Program Advisory Committee shall also:
(A) Establish, implement, and operate a uniform specialty court program evaluation process to ensure specialty court program resources are uniformly directed to high-risk and medium-risk offenders and that specialty court programs provide effective and proven practices that reduce recidivism, as well as other factors such as substance dependency, among participants;
(B) Establish an evaluation process that ensures that any new and existing specialty court program that is a drug court meets standards for drug court operation under § 16-98-302(b); and
(C) Promulgate rules to be approved by the Supreme Court to carry out the evaluation process under this section.
(d) A specialty court program shall be evaluated under the following schedule:
(1) A specialty court program established on or after April 1, 2015, shall be evaluated after its second year of funded operation;
(2) A specialty court program in existence on April 1, 2015, shall be evaluated under the requirements of this section prior to expending resources budgeted for fiscal year 2017; and
(3) A specialty court program shall be reevaluated every two (2) years after the initial evaluation.
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16-93-1701. Establishment.
The Administrative Office of the Courts shall:
(1) Create the Swift and Certain Accountability on Probation Pilot Program, awarding up to five (5) grants in the program's first year to counties or judicial districts requesting funds to establish probation programs to be administered by the Department of Community Correction designed to reduce recidivism by requiring swift, certain, and graduated sanctions for probationers in noncompliance;
(2) Possess the discretion to determine the appropriate number of grants based on the amount of money allocated for the program and the capacity of the applicants based on submitted proposals to successfully implement and evaluate the program;
(3) Ensure that grants awarded under this subchapter are awarded in a manner that promotes the strongest proposals and evaluation designs that have the broadest impact and that are evenly geographically distributed; and
(4) Employ a person who shall have as one-half (½) of his or her designated job duties the management of the program established under this subchapter.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-93-1701
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16-98-301. Short title and definitions.
(a) This subchapter shall be known as the “Arkansas Drug Court Act”.
(b) As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Evidence-based practices” means supervision, policies, procedures, and practices proven through research to reduce recidivism;
(2) “Validated risk-needs assessment” means a determination of a person's risk to reoffend and the needs that, when addressed, reduce the risk to reoffend through the use of an actuarial assessment tool that assesses the dynamic and static factors that drive criminal behavior; and
(3) “Violent felony offense” means an offense that is punishable by a term of imprisonment exceeding one (1) year, and during the course of the offense:
(A) The person carried, possessed, or used a firearm or other dangerous weapon and the use of deadly force was used against another person; or
(B) Death or serious physical injury was inflicted upon another person, regardless of whether death or serious physical injury was an element of the crime for which the person was convicted.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-98-301
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16-98-302. Purpose and intent.
(a) There is a critical need for judicial intervention and support for effective treatment programs that reduce the incidence of drug use, drug addiction, and family separation due to parental substance abuse and drug-related crimes. It is the intent of the General Assembly for this subchapter to enhance public safety by facilitating the creation, expansion, and coordination of drug court programs.
(b) The goals of the drug court programs in this state shall be consistent with the standards adopted by the United States Department of Justice and recommended by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals and shall include the following key components:
(1) Integration of substance abuse treatment with justice system case processing;
(2) Use of a nonadversarial approach in which prosecution and defense promote public safety while protecting the right of the accused to due process;
(3) Early identification, with the use of a validated risk-needs assessement, of eligible moderate-to-high-risk participants and prompt placement of eligible participants;
(4) Access to a continuum of treatment, rehabilitation, and related services;
(5) Frequent testing for alcohol and illicit drugs;
(6) A coordinated strategy among the judge, prosecution, defense, and treatment providers to govern offender compliance;
(7) Ongoing judicial interaction with each participant;
(8) Monitoring and evaluation of the achievement of program goals and effectiveness;
(9) Continuing interdisciplinary education to promote effective planning, implementation, and operation; and
(10) Development of partnerships with public agencies and community-based organizations to generate local support and enhance drug court effectiveness.
(c)(1) Drug court p
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-98-302
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5-4-901. Legislative intent.
The intent of this act is to provide the judiciary with an additional alternative to the disposition of criminal offenders that would assist the offender in atoning for his or her criminal transgression and promote the enforcement of the state's criminal statutes while easing the inmate burden on the county jails and the Division of Correction.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-4-901
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 5-4-901. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.