26-10D-2
Section 26-10D-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds all of the following: (1)
Alabama provides state licensed child placing services through various state, charitable,
religious, and private organizations. (2) Religious organizations, in particular, have a lengthy
and distinguished history of providing child placing services that predate government involvement.
(3) Religious organizations have long been licensed and should continue to contract with and
be licensed by the state to provide child placing services. (4) The faith of the people of
the United States has always played a vital role in efforts to serve the most vulnerable,
and this chapter seeks to ensure that people of any faith, or no faith at all, are free to
serve children and families who are in need in ways consistent with the communities that first
inspired their service. (5) Religious organizations display particular excellence when providing
child placing services. (6) Religious organizations cannot provide...
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12-15-314
Section 12-15-314 Dispositions for dependent children. (a) If a child is found to be
dependent, the juvenile court may make any of the following orders of disposition to protect
the welfare of the child: (1) Permit the child to remain with the parent, legal guardian,
or other legal custodian of the child, subject to conditions and limitations as the juvenile
court may prescribe. (2) Place the child under protective supervision under the Department
of Human Resources. (3) Transfer legal custody to any of the following: a. The Department
of Human Resources. b. A local public or private agency, organization, or facility willing
and able to assume the education, care, and maintenance of the child and which is licensed
by the Department of Human Resources or otherwise authorized by law to receive and provide
care for the child. c. A relative or other individual who, after study by the Department of
Human Resources, is found by the juvenile court to be qualified to receive and care for the...

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12-15-505
Section 12-15-505 State Team established; membership; term; duties; hiring authority.
(a) The State Team is created and shall consist of a representative appointed by the head
of the following departments, agencies, or organizations: The Department of Education, the
Department of Human Resources, the Department of Mental Health, the Department of Public Health,
the Department of Youth Services, and the Alabama Chief Probation Officers Association. (b)
The appointments to the State Team shall be for a term of three years beginning October 1,
1993, and each three years thereafter and until their successors are appointed, except that
the initial appointments of the representatives of the Department of Human Resources and the
Department of Mental Health shall be for three years; the initial appointments of the representatives
of the Department of Education and the Department of Youth Services shall be for two years;
and the initial appointments of representatives of the Department of...
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38-15-4
Section 38-15-4 Registration of certain youth residential institutions or organizations;
staff training plans; rights of children; licensing and inspection of food preparation areas;
access by law enforcement agencies. (a) Commencing on January 1, 2018, the department shall
register any religious, faith-based, or church nonprofit, other nonprofit, or for profit affiliated
youth residential facility, youth social rehabilitation facility, community treatment facility
for youths, youth transitional care facility, long term youth residential facility, private
alternative boarding school, private alternative outdoor program, and any organization entrusted
with the residential care of children in any organizational form or combination defined by
this section, whenever children are housed at the facility or location of the program
for a period of more than 24 hours. At a minimum, registered youth residential institution
or organization under this section shall do all of the following: (1) Be...
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36-1A-5
Section 36-1A-5 Participation limited to voluntary, charitable, health and human care
federations and agencies with a substantial local presence. (a) Participation in the Alabama
State Employee Combined Charitable Campaign shall be limited to voluntary, charitable, health
and human care federations and agencies with a substantial local presence that provide or
support direct health and welfare services to individuals or their families and meet the criteria
set forth in this section. "Substantial local presence" is defined as a facility,
staffed by professionals or volunteers, available to provide its services and open at least
15 hours a week. Such services must be available to state employees in the local campaign
community, unless they are rendered to needy persons overseas. Such services must directly
benefit human beings, whether children, youth, adults, the aged, the ill and infirm, or the
mentally or physically handicapped. Such services must consist of care, research, or...
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38-2-6
Section 38-2-6 Duties, powers, and responsibilities of state department. The aim of
the state department shall be the promotion of a unified development of welfare activities
and agencies of the state and of the local governments so that each agency and each governmental
institution shall function as an integral part of a general system. In order to carry out
effectively these aims, it shall be the duty and responsibility of the state department to:
(1) Administer or supervise all forms of public assistance including general home relief,
outdoor and indoor care for persons in need of assistance, also including those duties that
have to do primarily with the determination of need and authorization of relief. (2) Exercise
all the powers, duties, and responsibilities previously vested by law in the State Child Welfare
Department. (3) Provide services to county or municipal governments including the organization
and supervision of counties for the effective carrying out of welfare...
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12-15-107
Section 12-15-107 Juvenile probation officers - Duties of juvenile probation officers
generally; powers of juvenile probation officers as to taking into custody and placing in
shelter or detention care of children generally; procedure upon taking into custody of child
by juvenile probation officer generally. (a) For the purpose of carrying out the objectives
and purposes of this chapter and subject to the limitations of this chapter or imposed by
the juvenile court, a juvenile probation officer shall perform the following duties: (1) Make
investigations, reports, and recommendations to the juvenile court. (2) Serve as a juvenile
court intake officer when designated by the juvenile court judge. (3) Supervise and assist
a child placed on probation or aftercare by order of the juvenile court or other authority
of law until the terms of probation or aftercare expire or are otherwise terminated. (4) Make
appropriate referrals to other private or public departments or agencies of the...
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41-9-1061
Section 41-9-1061 Purposes, duties. (a) The commission shall study the conditions, needs,
issues, and problems of the criminal justice system in Alabama as it affects girls and women
by conducting walk through inspections of each of the women's correctional facilities and
female youth facilities and shall have unimpeded access to all documents of public record
produced, used, and maintained by entities of the criminal justice system to assess the needs
of the beneficiary population and to assess the impact of the commission's recommendations.
(b) The commission shall conduct beneficiary panels and focus groups to assess needs of the
beneficiary population to ensure the responsiveness and accountability of the criminal justice
system. (c) In conducting such study, the commission shall study best practices regarding
women victims and offenders in Alabama and other states and shall elicit views from experts
in the field of criminal justice, drug treatment, and domestic violence. (d) The...
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26-24-30
Section 26-24-30 Alabama Children's Policy Council. (a) The Alabama Children's Policy
Council is hereby created and shall consist of the following members: Three appointees from
business and industry made by the Governor; the Lieutenant Governor; the Speaker of the House
of Representatives; two members of the Alabama Senate, one appointed by the Lieutenant Governor
and one appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate; two members of the House of
Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Alabama; the legal advisor to the Governor; the Attorney General;
the President of the Juvenile and Family Court Judges' Association; the Commissioner of the
Department of Corrections; the President of the District Attorneys' Association; the President
of the Chief Juvenile Probation Officers' Association; the Commissioner of the Department
of Human Resources; the Administrative Director of Courts; the Secretary of the...
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12-15-215
Section 12-15-215 Disposition of delinquent children or children in need of supervision
generally. (a) If the juvenile court finds on proof beyond a reasonable doubt, based upon
competent, material, and relevant evidence, that a child committed the acts by reason of which
the child is alleged to be delinquent or in need of supervision, it may proceed immediately
to hear evidence as to whether the child is in need of care or rehabilitation and to file
its findings thereon. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, a finding that the child
has committed an act which constitutes a felony is sufficient to sustain a finding that the
child is in need of care or rehabilitation. If the juvenile court finds that the child is
not in need of care or rehabilitation, it shall dismiss the proceedings and discharge the
child from any detention or other temporary care theretofore ordered. If the juvenile court
finds that the child is in need of care or rehabilitation, it may make any of the...
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