As of January 1,2017, the Juvenile Probation Department is required to conduct a Juvenile Detention Risk Assessment of all detained juveniles.  The Assessment will be used by Juvenile Court judges to determine whether or not a child should be released pending resolution of their delinquency charges. The purpose is to measure a child’s risk to public safety and to encourage the release of more youth.

The following are the Detention Risk Screen Items:

  1. Are there any prior judicially handled matters?
  2. Are there any prior delinquency commitment dispositions?
  3. Are there any prior felony adjudications?
  4. Are there two or more prior supervision or probation dispositions?
  5. Is the child currently on probation?
  6. Are there two or more prior school based arrests?
  7. Are there any prior charges involving a Violation of Court Orders?
  8. Are there any prior charges of Violation of Probation?
  9. Does the instant offense include two or more charges?
  10. Does the instant offense include felony charges?

Each “yes” response equates to a one point.  The number of “points” is supposed to correlate to the child’s level of risk to the community.

  • Level 1 = 0 – 2 points
  • Level 2 = 3 -5 points
  • Level 3 = 6 – 10 points

This is obviously a new process but here’s the likely result based on a child’s “Level”.  Level 1 is typically a release.  Level 2 will require some context of the Detention Risk Assessment responses and strong persuasion that the child should be released, Level 3 is a likely remand to Juvenile Detention.

Contact me by email or call me in Fairfield at (203) 259-5251 or in Stamford at (203) 356-1475 if you have questions about Connecticut Juvenile Court.

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