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Included in this bulletin regarding the Adult and Juvenile Standards and Guidelines:
- Action Items and Reviews by the Board
- Solicitation for Public Comment
- Decision Items and Ratifications
- Board Meeting Agenda Items
- Announcements, Changes, or Important Updates
Action Items and Reviews by the Board:
1. The Board reviewed revisions to Section 2: Standards for Sex Offense Specific Evaluations.
- 2.00 Introduction
- 2.130 Competency has a salient issue
- Discussion Point about not working outside of one’s professional expertise and experience.
- 2.200 Sex Offense Specific Evaluation
- The Chart in the existing standards has been replaced with an outline for evaluations and charts outlining risk domains and protective and responsivity factors.
- Evaluators will be required to document the use of assessments on individuals outside of the normed population and the rationale for its use.
- Discussion point instructing evaluators to reference the new appendix, which will contain a list of assessments. These were taken from the existing standards and will be moved to the appendix, along with the location of the documents.
- 2.210 Formulations and Recommendations
- Revisions include all required areas for evaluators to provide information and/or make recommendations or finding, keeping the requirement to ensure all recommendations are connected to the information contained in the body of the evaluation.
SOLICITATION FOR PUBLIC COMMENT:
The Board voted and approved the Action Items to be sharedThan with stakeholders and released for Public comment:
- Revisions to Section 2 of the Adult Standards and guidelines as listed Above.
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To review these revisions and submit public comments, please Click Here.
All public comment will begin on November 28, 2022, and will be open for 2 weeks until December 9, 2022. All public comments can be submitted electronically. Click Here to review the proposed revisions and submit a public comment.
Per the SOMB’s new Public Comment Policy, all comments will be reviewed by the Adult or Juvenile Standards Revisions Committee and the Best Practices Committee for final revisions. All revisions, recommendations, and public comments will be forwarded to the full Board as a decision item.
DECISION ITEMS & RATIFICATIONS:
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Housing Paper presentation by Dr. Rachael Collie with modifications and feedback from the Board and other Stakeholders. The Board voted to approve the publication of this document and release it for public dissemination.
NOVEMBER BOARD MEETING AGENDA ITEMS:
- Presentation in Recognition of Native American Heritage Month by Annie Bachand Yakuzan: Creating Connections | Transforming Healing Opportunities (1 Hour Training Credit for Attendance)
All Meetings are scheduled on the public calendar with information on location and virtual joining information. Most meetings have the option to attend virtually and in person.
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