Specialized secure detention facility policies and procedures
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Dates and status
- Compiling agency
- Executive Department
- Text status
- Westlaw Inline Boundary Correction
- Compiled text through
- Jul 31, 2022
- Register checked through
- July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
- Activity status
- No later Register activity identified in this check.
- Source snapshot
- Jun 6, 2026
(a)A specialized secure detention facility shall develop written policies and procedures as directed by this Subpart.
All such policies and procedures shall be maintained in a facility manual, reviewed consistent with a schedule provided by OCFS and SCOC, and updated as needed. If a policy or procedure requires approval by OCFS or SCOC, then the updated version shall also need to be approved.
(b)In addition to the policies and procedures detailed in this Subpart, a specialized secure detention facility shall also be required to develop policies and procedures for:
(1)Facility operations that:
(i)govern food services, consistent with the New York State Department of Health and the recommended dietary allowances of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council;
(ii)govern the control of items that are prohibited from the facility and provide for the confiscation, return or destruction of such contraband.
(2)Youth services/programs that:
(i)provide youth access to legal representatives, consistent with sections 180-3.25 of this Subpart, Telephone Access, and 180-3.26 of this Subpart, Visiting;
(ii)provide a minimum of at least two hours per day of physical activity, one hour of which shall be large muscle exercise, as well as additional recreation and leisure activities to enhance positive youth development;
(iii)protect the right of all youth to exercise a religious belief or refrain from engaging in any religion;
(iv)govern correspondence received and sent by youth;
(v)govern access to developmentally appropriate printed material and publications;
(vi)govern the need for a youth to attend the funeral or the deathbed of a close family member, guardian or other person who has maintained a significant relationship with the youth;
(vii)govern the monitoring and safeguarding of all youth property that enters the facility to provide for its return or appropriate disposition when returning it is not possible; and
(viii)other such policies as may be required by OCFS or SCOC.