§ 530. Reimbursement for detention. 1. Definitions. As used in this\nsection, the term "municipality" shall mean a county, or a city having a\npopulation of one million or more.\n 2. Expenditures made by municipalities in providing care, maintenance\nand supervision to youth in detention facilities designated pursuant to\nsection 305.2 of the family court act and certified by office of\nchildren and family services, shall be subject to reimbursement by the\nstate, as follows:\n (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, eligible\nexpenditures by a municipality during a particular program year for the\ncare, maintenance and supervision in secure and non-secure detention\nfacilities certified by the office in accordance with section five\nhundred three of this article for those youth alleged to be juvenile\ndelinquents; adjudicated juvenile delinquents held pending transfer to a\nfacility upon placement, and juvenile delinquents held at the request of\nthe office of children and family services pending extension of\nplacement hearings or release revocation hearings or while awaiting\ndisposition of such hearings; and youth alleged to be or convicted as\njuvenile offenders, youthful offenders and adolescent offenders and\nprior to January first, two thousand twenty, youth alleged to be persons\nin need of supervision or adjudicated persons in need of supervision\nheld pending transfer to a facility upon placement in foster care\nprograms certified by the office of children and family services,\ncertified or approved foster boarding homes and non-secure detention\nfacilities certified by the office, shall be subject to state\nreimbursement for up to fifty percent of the municipality's\nexpenditures, exclusive of any federal funds made available for such\npurposes, not to exceed the municipality's distribution from funds that\nhave been appropriated specifically therefor for that program year.\nMunicipalities shall implement the use of detention risk assessment\ninstruments in a manner prescribed by the office so as to inform\ndetention decisions. Notwithstanding any other provision of state law to\nthe contrary, data necessary for completion of a detention risk\nassessment instrument may be shared among law enforcement, probation,\ncourts, detention administrators, detention providers, and the attorney\nfor the child upon retention or appointment; solely for the purpose of\naccurate completion of such risk assessment instrument, and a copy of\nthe completed detention risk assessment instrument shall be made\navailable to the applicable detention provider, the attorney for the\nchild and the court.\n (b) The state funds appropriated for juvenile detention services shall\nbe distributed to eligible municipalities by the office of children and\nfamily services based on a plan developed by the office which may\nconsider historical information regarding the number of youth remanded\nto detention, the municipality's reduction in the use of detention, the\nmunicipality's youth population, and other factors as determined by the\noffice. Such plan developed by the office shall be subject to the\napproval of the director of the budget. The office is authorized, in its\ndiscretion, to make advance distributions to a municipality in\nanticipation of state reimbursement.\n (c) A municipality may also use the funds distributed to it for\njuvenile detention services under this section for a particular program\nyear for sixty-two percent of a municipality's eligible expenditures for\nsupervision and treatment services for juveniles programs approved under\nsection five hundred twenty-nine-b of this title for services that were\nnot reimbursed from a municipality's distribution under such program\nprovided to at-risk, alleged or adjudicated juvenile delinquents or\npersons alleged or adjudicated to be in need of supervision, or alleged\nto be or convicted as juvenile offenders in community-based\nnon-residential settings. Any c
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