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Wis. Stat. § 48.208

Criteria for holding a child in a juvenile detention facility

Known as the The Children’s Code

The act spans §§ 48–48 (229 sections).

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Schall v. Martin (1984)

Most recently applied in Schall v. Martin (June 1984)

1977 c. 354; 1979 c. 300; 1985 a. 176; 1993 a. 16, 377, 385, 491; 1995 a. 27, 77; 1997 a. 292; 2001 a. 61; 2005 a. 344

A child may be held in a juvenile detention facility if the intake worker determines that one of the following conditions applies:

(3) The child consents in writing to being held in order to protect him or her from an imminent physical threat from another and such secure custody is ordered by the judge in a protective order.

(4) Probable cause exists to believe that the child, having been placed in nonsecure custody by an intake worker under s. 48.207 (1) or by the judge or a circuit court commissioner under s. 48.21 (4), has run away or committed a delinquent act and no other suitable alternative exists.

Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.