§ 21-906 Incident reports in juvenile justice facilities.
AC § 21-906
a. Quarterly incident reports.
1.By January 15, 2025, and no later than 60 days after the end of each quarter thereafter, ACS shall submit a report related to incidents occurring in juvenile justice facilities to the speaker of the council and make such report available on ACS’s website. All data contained in such report must be in a machine-readable format and include a comparison of the data in the current reporting period to the data in the 4 preceding reporting periods, to the extent such information is available. The information required pursuant to this section for each reporting period must be accessible through the city’s open data web portal. Such report must include the number of the following incidents: (a) use of physical restraint by staff on children; (b) physical injuries or impairment to children as a result of the use of physical restraint; (c) use of mechanical restraint by staff on children; (d) physical injuries or impairment to children as a result of the use of mechanical restraint; (e) fights and altercations between children; (f) physical injuries or impairment to children as a result of fights with other children; (g) physical injuries or impairment to children resulting from any other means not previously mentioned, disaggregated by cause; (h) physical injury to staff, to the extent known; (i) biased-based incidents as reported by a child; and (j) the number of room confinements and the average length of stay for such confinements in secure and specialized secure detention facilities.
2.The data provided pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subdivision shall be disaggregated by the following factors: (a) secure and specialized secure detention facilities, in total and disaggregated by facility; (b) non-secure detention facilities, in total; (c) non-secure placement facilities, in total; and (d) limited secure placement facilities, in total.
3.For each room confinement in a secure or specialized secure facility reported pursuant to subparagraph (j) of paragraph 1 of this subdivision, such report must include the facility, duration, and reason for each such room confinement. b. Annual incident reports.
