41-9-944
Section 41-9-944 Duties of commission. The commission shall have the following duties: (1) Provide for the education of members of the Legislature and state agencies of Alabama about Total Quality, including the basic concepts, potential benefits, and application to state government, among other responsibilities. (2) Arrange Total Quality presentations for members of the Legislature and host quality meetings between invitees from the Legislature, the executive branch, state and local governments, private industry, or other relevant parties to discuss the application of Total Quality to government. (3) Make and transmit to the Governor and the Legislature findings and recommendations regarding the application of Total Quality principles to the organization and continuous operations of state government. These findings and recommendations shall address the continuous improvement of government operations through the promotion of citizen satisfaction, cost-saving, employee satisfaction and...
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44-2-20
Section 44-2-20 Text of compact. The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in form substantially as follows: Article I. Purpose and Policy. It is the purpose and policy of the party states to cooperate with each other in the interstate placement of children to the end that: (a) Each child requiring placement shall receive the maximum opportunity to be placed in a suitable environment and with persons or institutions having appropriate qualifications and facilities to provide a necessary and desirable degree and type of care. (b) The appropriate authorities in a state where a child is to be placed may have full opportunity to ascertain the circumstances of the proposed placement, thereby promoting full compliance with applicable requirements for the protection of the child. (c) The proper authorities of the state from which the placement is made may obtain the most complete...
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12-15-127
Section 12-15-127 Release, delivery to detention or shelter care facility, medical facility of children taken into custody generally. (a) A person taking a child into custody without an order of the juvenile court shall, with all possible speed, and in accordance with this chapter and the rules of court pursuant thereto: (1) Release the child to the parents, legal guardian, or legal custodian of the child or other suitable person able to provide supervision and care for the child and issue verbal counsel and warning as may be appropriate. (2) Release the child to the parents, legal guardian, or legal custodian of the child upon his or her promise to bring the child before the juvenile court when requested, unless the placement of the child in detention or shelter care appears required. If a parent, legal guardian, or other legal custodian fails, when requested, to bring the child before the juvenile court as provided in this section, the juvenile court may issue an order directing that...
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12-25-32
Section 12-25-32 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) COMMISSION. The Alabama Sentencing Commission, established as a state agency under the Supreme Court by this chapter. (2) CONTINUUM OF PUNISHMENTS. An array of punishment options, from probation to incarceration, graduated in restrictiveness according to the degree of supervision of the offender including, but not limited to, all of the following: a. Active Incarceration. A sentence, other than an intermediate punishment or unsupervised probation, that requires an offender to serve a sentence of imprisonment. The term includes time served in a work release program operated as a custody option by the Alabama Department of Corrections or in the Supervised Intensive Restitution program of the Department of Corrections pursuant to Article 7, commencing with Section 15-18-110, of Chapter 18 of Title 15. b. Intermediate Punishment. A sentence that may include assignment to any...
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14-14-2
Section 14-14-2 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of the Department of Corrections. (2) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Corrections. (3) GERIATRIC INMATE. A person 55 years of age or older convicted in this state of a non-capital felony offense and sentenced to the penitentiary, who suffers from a chronic life-threatening infirmity, life-threatening illness, or chronic debilitating disease related to aging, who poses a low risk to the community, and who does not constitute a danger to himself or herself or society. (4) PERMANENTLY INCAPACITATED INMATE. A state inmate who possesses a permanent, irreversible physical or mental health condition that prevents him or her from being able to perpetrate a violent physical action upon another person or self or initiate or participate in a criminal act. The medical or mental health treatment or need for assistance of such individual must require...
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26-16-51
Section 26-16-51 Department of Human Resources to adopt guidelines and criteria; general role and functions of teams. The Department of Human Resources shall adopt guidelines and criteria relating to the operations and functions of the team as promulgated by the advisory committee created pursuant to Section 26-16-52. The guidelines will be supplemental to the existing protective service activities of the children, youth, and family programs of the State of Alabama. Nothing in this section shall be construed to remove or reduce the duty and responsibility of any person to report all suspected or actual cases of child abuse or neglect or sexual abuse of a child pursuant to law. The general role of the teams shall be to support activities of the program and to provide services to abused and neglected children upon referral by the county departments of human resources, or any other agency as set forth in the guidelines and criteria established. To the extent that resources are available...
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30-6-6
Section 30-6-6 Establishment and funding of facilities. (a) In order to be certified, each domestic violence center shall do all of the following: (1) Provide a facility that shall serve as a center to receive and house persons who are victims of domestic violence. For the purpose of this chapter, minor children and other dependents of a victim, when the dependents are partly or wholly dependent on the victim for support or services, may be sheltered with the victim in a domestic violence center. (2) Provide minimum services which shall include, but not be limited to, information and referral services, counseling and case management services, temporary emergency shelter for more than 24 hours for adult victims and their accompanying children, a 24-hour hotline, training for law enforcement personnel, assessment and appropriate referral of resident children, outreach services as defined by standards for counties without a physical emergency shelter facility, and educational services for...
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30-7-6
Section 30-7-6 Perpetrator counseling programs. (a) The director, in consultation with the Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Incorporated or other qualified entity, as provided in subsection (b) of Section 30-7-2, the Alabama Network of Family Resource Centers, and the Alabama Department of Mental Health, shall establish the content of batterers' intervention programs in order to direct services to those persons who are adjudged to have committed an act of domestic violence, as defined in Section 30-5-2, those against whom an injunction for protection against domestic violence is entered, those referred by the court, and those who volunteer to attend such programs. (b) The facilitators, supervisors, and trainees of the program shall be certified to provide these programs through initial certification by the Department of Economic and Community Affairs, and the programs and personnel shall be annually recertified by the department to ensure that they meet specified standards....
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31-9-62
Section 31-9-62 Salary supplement; allocation of federal funds. (a) Each state-recognized local emergency management agency that employs and retains a local emergency management director who completes the requirements to be a certified local emergency management director and is so designated by the Director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency shall receive an annual salary supplement from the Alabama Emergency Management Agency in an amount necessary to provide the local director with a total salary of forty thousand dollars ($40,000) per year. The amount of the salary supplement shall be the difference between the salary paid to the local director on the date of his or her certification and forty thousand dollars ($40,000) per year. In no case shall the salary supplement paid as provided herein be more than twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) per county and such supplement shall not be paid to any local agency that does not increase the salary of such certified local emergency...
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32-2-120
Section 32-2-120 Creation of system; activation of alert; powers and duties; boundaries of alert area; termination of alert; liability. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ALERT SYSTEM. The Blue Alert system. (2) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Public Safety. (3) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Department of Public Safety. (4) LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. A law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the search for a suspect in a case involving the death or serious injury of a peace officer or an agency employing a peace officer who is missing in the line of duty. (5) PEACE OFFICER. A person who is certified to exercise the power of arrest under the laws of this state. (b) There is established a statewide alert system known as Blue Alert which shall be developed and implemented by the director, who is the statewide coordinator of the alert system. (c) The alert system may be activated under either of the following circumstances: (1)...
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