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Juvenile Justice Act

Washington · Juvenile Courts and Juvenile Offenders · §§ 13.40.010 to 13.40.900 · 89 sections

Overview

This act governs the juvenile justice system, establishing juvenile courts and defining their jurisdiction over delinquency, dependency, and children in need of supervision, along with certain related civil and criminal matters. It sets out the roles of the judges, referees, intake officers, probation officers, and prosecutors who staff those courts, and prescribes the procedure for handling a case from intake and informal adjustment through petition, summons, custody, detention or shelter care, hearings, and disposition. It also addresses the confidentiality, inspection, sealing, and destruction of juvenile court and law enforcement records, the financial responsibility of parents and counties for the costs of a child's care, and penalties for contributing to a child's delinquency or otherwise interfering with the court's authority.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

In the courts

Sections of this act have been cited in 1,328 court decisions.

Most-cited authority: 69 P.3d 318 - State v. JP

Sections covered

  • RCW 13.40.010Short title—Intent—Purpose.120 cites
  • RCW 13.40.020Definitions.239 cites
  • RCW 13.40.030Security guidelines—Legislative review—Limitations on permissible ranges of confinement.35 cites
  • RCW 13.40.0351Equal application of guidelines and standards.
  • RCW 13.40.0357Juvenile offender sentencing standards.72 cites
  • RCW 13.40.038County juvenile detention facilities—Policy—Detention and risk assessment standards.2 cites
  • RCW 13.40.040Taking juvenile into custody, grounds—Detention of, grounds—Detention pending disposition—Release on bond, conditions—Bail jumping.8 cites
  • RCW 13.40.042Detention of juvenile suffering from mental disorder or substance use disorder.
  • RCW 13.40.043Prison riot offenses—Relief from disposition.
  • RCW 13.40.044Infraction—Prison riot offenses vacated.
  • RCW 13.40.045Escapees—Arrest warrants.
  • RCW 13.40.050Detention procedures—Notice of hearing—Conditions of release—Consultation with parent, guardian, or custodian.7 cites
  • RCW 13.40.054Probation bond or collateral—Modification or revocation of probation bond.
  • RCW 13.40.058Fines, administrative fees, costs, and surcharges prohibited.
  • RCW 13.40.060Jurisdiction of actions—Transfer of case and records, when—Change in venue, grounds.6 cites
  • RCW 13.40.070Complaints—Screening—Filing information—Diversion—Modification of community supervision—Notice to parent or guardian—Probation counselor acting for prosecutor—Referral to community-based, restorative justice, mediation, or reconciliation programs.29 cites
  • RCW 13.40.077Recommended prosecuting standards for charging and plea dispositions.
  • RCW 13.40.080Diversion agreement—Scope—Limitations—Restitution orders—Divertee's rights—Diversion unit's powers and duties—Interpreters—Modification.24 cites
  • RCW 13.40.082Diversion agreements—Applicability—Underlying offense.
  • RCW 13.40.087Youth who have been diverted—Alleged prostitution or prostitution loitering offenses—Services and treatment.
  • RCW 13.40.090Prosecuting attorney as party to juvenile court proceedings—Exception, procedure.1 cite
  • RCW 13.40.100Summons or other notification issued upon filing of information—Procedure—Order to take juvenile into custody—Contempt of court, when.7 cites
  • RCW 13.40.110Hearing on question of declining jurisdiction—Held, when—Findings.86 cites
  • RCW 13.40.120Hearings—Time and place.
  • RCW 13.40.127Deferred disposition.49 cites
  • RCW 13.40.130Procedure upon plea of guilty or not guilty to information allegations—Notice—Adjudicatory and disposition hearing—Disposition standards used in sentencing.25 cites
  • RCW 13.40.135Sexual motivation special allegation—Procedures.18 cites
  • RCW 13.40.140Juveniles entitled to usual judicial rights—Notice of—Open court—Privilege against self-incrimination—Waiver of rights, when.49 cites
  • RCW 13.40.150Disposition hearing—Scope—Factors to be considered prior to entry of dispositional order.83 cites
  • RCW 13.40.160Disposition order—Court's action prescribed—Disposition outside standard range—Right of appeal—Special sex offender disposition alternative.134 cites
  • RCW 13.40.162Special sex offender disposition alternative.11 cites
  • RCW 13.40.165Substance use disorder or mental health disposition alternative.7 cites
  • RCW 13.40.180Single disposition order—Consecutive terms when two or more offenses—Limitations—Separate disposition order—Concurrent period of community supervision.22 cites
  • RCW 13.40.185Disposition order—Confinement under departmental supervision or in juvenile facility, when.11 cites
  • RCW 13.40.190Disposition order—Restitution for loss or damage—Modification of restitution order.55 cites
  • RCW 13.40.192Restitution and other legal financial obligations—Enforceability—Treatment of obligations upon age of eighteen or conclusion of juvenile court jurisdiction—Extension of judgment.4 cites
  • RCW 13.40.193Firearms—Length of confinement.2 cites
  • RCW 13.40.196Firearms—Special allegation.
  • RCW 13.40.200Violation of order of restitution, community supervision, or confinement—Modification of order after hearing.44 cites
  • RCW 13.40.205Release from physical custody, when—Authorized leaves—Leave plan and order—Notice.1 cite
  • RCW 13.40.210Setting of release date—Administrative release authorized, when—Parole program, revocation or modification of, scope—Intensive supervision program—Parole officer's right of arrest.9 cites
  • RCW 13.40.212Intensive supervision program—Elements.
  • RCW 13.40.213Juveniles alleged to have committed a prostitution loitering offense—Diversion.
  • RCW 13.40.215Juveniles found to have committed violent or sex offense or stalking—Notification of discharge, parole, leave, release, transfer, or escape—To whom given—School attendance—Definitions.3 cites
  • RCW 13.40.217Juveniles adjudicated of sex offenses—Release of information authorized.2 cites
  • RCW 13.40.219Arrest for prostitution or prostitution loitering—Alleged offender—Victim of severe form of trafficking, commercial sex abuse of a minor.
  • RCW 13.40.230Appeal from order of disposition—Jurisdiction—Procedure—Scope—Release pending appeal.76 cites
  • RCW 13.40.240Construction of RCW references to juvenile delinquents or juvenile delinquency.2 cites
  • RCW 13.40.250Traffic infraction, transit infraction, and civil infraction cases—Diversion agreements.6 cites
  • RCW 13.40.265Firearm, alcohol, and drug violations.10 cites
  • RCW 13.40.280Transfer of juvenile to department of corrections facility—Grounds—Hearing—Term—Retransfer to a facility for juveniles.9 cites
  • RCW 13.40.285Juvenile offender sentenced to terms in juvenile and adult facilities—Transfer to department of corrections—Term of confinement.2 cites
  • RCW 13.40.300Commitment of juvenile beyond age 21 prohibited—Exceptions—Commitment up to age 25 permitted under certain circumstances—Jurisdiction of juvenile court after juvenile's 18th birthday.54 cites
  • RCW 13.40.301Department to protect younger children in confinement from older youth confined pursuant to 2018 c 162.
  • RCW 13.40.305Juvenile offender adjudicated of theft of motor vehicle, possession of stolen vehicle, taking motor vehicle without permission in the first degree, taking motor vehicle without permission in the second degree—Local sanctions—Evaluation.
  • RCW 13.40.308Juvenile offender adjudicated of taking motor vehicle without permission in the first degree, theft of motor vehicle, possession of a stolen vehicle, taking motor vehicle without permission in the second degree—Minimum sentences.
  • RCW 13.40.310Transitional treatment program for gang and drug-involved juvenile offenders.
  • RCW 13.40.320Juvenile offender basic training camp program.3 cites
  • RCW 13.40.400Applicability of RCW 10.01.040 to chapter.
  • RCW 13.40.430Disparity in disposition of juvenile offenders—Data collection.
  • RCW 13.40.460Juvenile rehabilitation programs—Administration.1 cite
  • RCW 13.40.462Reinvesting in youth program.
  • RCW 13.40.464Reinvesting in youth program—Guidelines.
  • RCW 13.40.468Juvenile rehabilitation administration—State quality assurance program.
  • RCW 13.40.470Vulnerable youth committed to residential facilities—Protection from sexually aggressive youth—Assessment process.
  • RCW 13.40.480Student records and information—Reasons for release—Who may request.
  • RCW 13.40.500Community juvenile accountability programs—Findings—Purpose.
  • RCW 13.40.510Community juvenile accountability programs—Establishment—Proposals—Guidelines.
  • RCW 13.40.511Community juvenile accountability programs—Stop loss policy—Funding for juvenile courts—Report to legislature.
  • RCW 13.40.520Community juvenile accountability programs—Grants.
  • RCW 13.40.530Community juvenile accountability programs—Effectiveness standards.
  • RCW 13.40.540Community juvenile accountability programs—Information collection—Report.
  • RCW 13.40.550Community juvenile accountability programs—Short title.
  • RCW 13.40.570Sexual misconduct by state employees, contractors.
  • RCW 13.40.580Youth courts—Diversion.
  • RCW 13.40.590Youth court programs.
  • RCW 13.40.600Youth court jurisdiction.
  • RCW 13.40.610Youth court notification of satisfaction of conditions.
  • RCW 13.40.620Appearance before youth court with parent, guardian, or legal custodian.
  • RCW 13.40.630Youth court dispositions.
  • RCW 13.40.650Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody—Allowed in extraordinary circumstances.
  • RCW 13.40.651Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody—Provision of information to staff and pregnant youth in custody.
  • RCW 13.40.660Exchange of intimate images by minors—Findings—Work group.
  • RCW 13.40.720Imposition of legal financial obligations—City, town, or county authority.
  • RCW 13.40.730Community transition services program.
  • RCW 13.40.735Planned release—Notice to health care insurance provider.
  • RCW 13.40.740Juvenile access to an attorney.
  • RCW 13.40.745Program grants—Sex offender evaluation and treatment programs.
  • RCW 13.40.900Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

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