Policy
Compiled text through Mar 31, 2022
Register checked through Jul 29, 2026
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Dates and status
- Compiling agency
- Executive Department
- Text status
- Source receipt
- Compiled text through
- Mar 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)Consistent with the requirements of this Part, the director shall develop written policies and procedures that allow for youth religious observance. The written policy and procedures shall be reviewed annually and updated as needed.
(b)Youth have a right to hold any religious belief, and to be affiliated with any religious faith.
(c)Youth are entitled to exercise their religious beliefs in a manner that does not constitute a threat to the safety, security or operational stability of the facility, or the safety, security or health of any person.
(d)No person shall be permitted to proselytize to any facility youth.
(e)Consistent with the requirements of subdivision (c) of this section, no youth shall be compelled to, or dissuaded from, exercising any religious belief.
(f)Equal status and protection shall be afforded all youth in the exercise of their religious beliefs, except when such exercise results in facility expenditures which are unreasonable or disproportionate to those extended to other youth for similar purposes.