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Commission approves two legislative drafts: subpoena/disclosure authority and revisions to mentoring program for children of incarcerated parents
Summary
The commission voted to send two bills to the legislature: one would add limited subpoena authority and narrowly allow disclosure of a complainant's identity when an explicit threat is communicated; the other would broaden the children-of-incarcerated-parents mentoring program, remove a statutory per-child cap and relax nonprofit applicant requirements.
Marsha Johnson presented two bills on the commission's legislative agenda and the commission debated and approved both drafts for consideration.
Bill 1 would authorize the Office of Juvenile System Oversight to subpoena records from facilities in the children-and-youth services system and to disclose the identity of a complainant when the complainant has communicated an explicit threat to kill or inflict serious bodily injury on a…
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