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Commission backs legislative concepts to restore inspections authority for oversight and other technical fixes
Summary
The commission approved five legislative concepts including restoring routine inspection authority for the Office of Juvenile System Oversight, clarifying referral authority with OSPI, adjustments to multidisciplinary team statutes and administrative rules, and a change to school-student electronic-communication law to allow an alternate adult for unaccompanied homeless youth.
The Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth approved a set of legislative concepts to be drafted for the 2025 session, including several technical and authority-restoring measures.
Concept 1 would clarify that the Office of Juvenile System Oversight (OJSO) may conduct routine inspections of privately operated residential facilities and other contracted placement settings without waiting for a complaint. Presenters said interpretation and practice changed after 2009 and the concept is intended to reopen a previously…
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