| (a) Core Services.
(1) Court Services. Each community supervision and
corrections department (CSCD) shall:
(A) conduct pre/post-sentence investigations as ordered
by the court and in accordance with law;
(B) report violations to the court;
(C) provide testimony as custodian of the record;
(D) conduct assessments and complete reports mandated
by law;
(E) make recommendations to the court regarding conditions
of supervision; and
(F) maintain case files.
(2) Basic Supervision. Each CSCD shall:
(A) enforce conditions of community supervision;
(B) perform case intake;
(C) conduct assessments, reassessments, and case planning,
and implement strategies to address identified offender risks and
needs with the resources available to jurisdictions;
(D) provide contacts to offenders on direct community
supervision per Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) Community
Justice Assistance Division (CJAD) standards;
(E) maintain case files;
(F) develop and monitor community service restitution
programs;
(G) as ordered by the court, assess and, when needed,
provide access to education, substance abuse, and mental impairment
services;
(H) monitor employment and provide job and/or vocational
services to employable offenders; and
(I) provide access to assessment and treatment services
for sex offenders and violent offenders and maintain appropriate levels
of supervision for these offenders.
(3) Administrative Services. Each CSCD shall provide
adequate management and support service to the CSCD operation, commensurate
with available resources, to include:
(A) administrative support staff;
(B) data processing support;
(C) data control and evaluation support;
(D) fiscal services support; and
(E) training coordinators.
(b) Continuum of Sanctions. Each CSCD director shall
ensure the development and implementation of a continuum of sanctions
that address the risks and needs of offenders as identified in the
jurisdiction's strategic plan, subject to available resources and
local policy.
(c) Regional Planning. Regional programs and services
shall address regional needs as identified in each jurisdiction's
strategic plan and respond efficiently and economically to specific
offender issues for each of the participating jurisdictions. Each
CSCD director participating in regional programs and services shall
work with other CSCD directors affected by those regional efforts
in the planning, developing, and implementing regional programs and
services to address offender needs.
(d) Community Service Restitution (CSR). Each CSCD
director shall maintain written agreements with governmental and/or
nonprofit entities to provide offenders opportunities to comply with
court-ordered community service restitution according to Texas Code
of Criminal Procedure article 42A.304.
(e) Educational Skill Level. Using a standardized educational
screening instrument, each CSCD director shall ensure that all persons
placed on community supervision, who are unable to document attainment
of a high school diploma or GED shall be screened to determine if
the persons possess:
(1) Educational skills equal to or greater than the
sixth grade level; or
(2) The intellectual capacity or learning ability to
achieve the sixth grade skills level. Programs that assist offenders
in attaining the educational skill level of sixth grade and above
shall be developed and/or made available to the courts for offender
referral. Each CSCD director may maintain written agreements with
school and volunteer organizations to provide tutoring to teach reading
to functionally illiterate offenders.
(f) Methods for Measuring the Success of Community
Supervision and Corrections Program. For purposes of Texas Government
Code §509.007(b), the success of programs provided by a CSCD
or an entity served by a CSCD is measured by assessing rates of program
completion and recidivism.
(1) Program completion is the completion of all required
components of the program, and/or an offender's release from the program
that is not related to any non-compliant behavior, an inappropriate
placement, or death.
(2) Recidivism is a subsequent arrest for a new, separate
offense that is punishable by incarceration. This definition does
not include arrests for motions to revoke community supervision and
bond forfeitures.
(g) Conflicts of Interest. Each CSCD director shall
ensure the adoption of a written policy that prohibits possible conflicts
of interest affecting the CSCD, its supervision officers, and employees.
(h) Partnerships with Law Enforcement Agencies. Each
CSCD shall cooperate with and provide assistance to municipal, county,
and state law enforcement agencies or peace officers in situations
relating to offender supervision, absconder apprehension, victim services,
and other community-based criminal justice activities.
(i) A CSCD may contract with another CSCD for services
or facilities.
(j) A judicial district may contract for programs and
services with a CSCD established for another judicial district, in
lieu of establishing its own CSCD, if such a contract promotes administrative
convenience, economy, or improved services.
(k) More than one CSCD may serve a judicial district
that includes more than one county if providing more than one CSCD
promotes administrative convenience, economy, or improved services.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §163.31 adopted to be effective March 1, 1993, 18 TexReg 944; amended to be effective August 16, 1995, 20 TexReg 5799; amended to be effective October 13, 1997, 22 TexReg 9896; amended to be effective June 20, 2002, 27 TexReg 5220; amended to be effective February 12, 2008, 33 TexReg 1120; amended to be effective March 29, 2020, 45 TexReg 2024 |
