Oklahoma § 22-988.16 - Community sentencing system budgeting

§ 22-988.16. Community sentencing system budgeting

A. Each fiscal year the Division, in collaboration with the

local planning councils, shall provide goals and funding priorities

for community punishments as provided by law. The statewide

community sentencing system shall be composed of local community

sentencing system plans as approved by the Division. The Division

shall promulgate rules for local community sentencing systems based

upon objective criteria for allocation of state-appropriated funds

to local systems for day-to-day operation during a fiscal year which

may include identification of:

1. Fiscally responsible allocations of services and funds;

2. Innovative or effective programs of the local system; and

3. Appropriate targeting of offenders for services.

The Division and each of the local community sentencing systems are

required to operate within the appropriated funds. The state shall

require each local community sentencing system to identify resources

other than state funds as part of the funding formula. The Division

shall establish procedures for disbursement of state funds to

service providers, and shall disburse state funds in a timely

manner.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 22. Criminal Procedure

B. For a local community sentencing system to remain eligible

for state funding, a local community sentencing system shall:

1. Demonstrate fiscal responsibility by operating the local

system within the plan and budget allocation;

2. Require performance-based selection of service providers

participating in the annual system plan;

3. Submit a plan which offers a continuum of sanctions for

eligible offenders sentenced to the local community sentencing

system and appropriately assign offenders for services; and

4. Comply with the rules promulgated by the Community

Sentencing Division within the Department of Corrections and the

provisions of the Oklahoma Community Sentencing Act.

C. When state funding is required to implement a local

community sentencing system plan, the Community Sentencing Division

shall approve the plan only to the extent that the jurisdiction's

share of the total state appropriations will support the

implementation of the local system plan. Modification to a local

plan shall be for budgetary purposes, as provided in Section 988.7

of this title, and for compliance with law and rule.

D. State funds from the Community Sentencing Division disbursed

to community sentencing systems shall be used for operation and

administrative expenses and shall not be used to construct,

renovate, remodel, expand or improve any jail, residential treatment

facility, restrictive housing facility, or any other structure, nor

shall these funds be used to replace funding or other resources from

the federal, state, county or city government committed in support

of the detailed system plan during the plan year.

E. Any funds accruing to the benefit of a community sentencing

system shall be deposited in the Oklahoma Community Sentencing

Revolving Fund created as provided in Section 557.1 of Title 57 of

the Oklahoma Statutes, and shall be credited to the local

jurisdiction making such deposit. The Community Sentencing Division

within the Department of Corrections and every local planning

council are authorized to apply for and accept grants, gifts,

bequests and other lawful money from nonprofit private

organizations, for-profit organizations, political subdivisions of

this state, the United States, and private citizens to support or

expand the community sentencing system.

Added by Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 4, § 16, eff. July 1, 1999.

Amended by Laws 2000, c. 39, § 1, emerg. eff. April 10, 2000; Laws

2002, c. 165, § 5, eff. July 1, 2002.