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TITLE 37PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS
PART 11TEXAS JUVENILE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 343SECURE JUVENILE PRE-ADJUDICATION DETENTION AND POST-ADJUDICATION CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
SUBCHAPTER ADEFINITIONS, APPLICABILITY, AND GENERAL DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS
RULE §343.110Observation Records

(a) The requirements of this standard apply to each standard in this chapter in which a juvenile supervision officer is required to observe and record a resident's behavior, including §§343.286, 343.288, 343.290, 343.338, 343.348, 343.350, 343.402, 343.438, 343.442, 343.632, and 343.634 of this title.

(b) All such observations shall be documented by the juvenile supervision officer who made the actual observation. The documentation shall indicate the exact hour and minute the visual observation was made and a general description of the resident's behavior.

(c) If a facility uses an electronic system to record observations of residents, the system shall have the capability to:

  (1) allow juvenile supervision officers to record a general description of the resident's observed behavior; and

  (2) print out the observation records.

(d) If a facility uses an electronic system that does not allow for the resident's behavior to be recorded at the time the observation is made, the facility shall maintain a supplemental log in which the officer conducting the observations documents, at the time of the observation, the resident's behavior.


Source Note: The provisions of this §343.110 adopted to be effective January 1, 2015, 39 TexReg 9243

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