Section 81.03. Definitions.  


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  • In this chapter:
    (1)  "Assigned caseworker" means a county department staff member or designee responsible for the case plan, case management, and decision making.
    (2)  "Caretaker" means another person besides a parent who is providing care to a youth.
    (3)  "County department" means the county department under s. 46.215 , 46.22 or 46.23 , Stats.
    (4)  "Department" means the department of children and families.
    (5)  "Electronic monitoring device" means an electronic device used to monitor the youth's location.
    (6)  "Intensive supervision" means a community based comprehensive program providing a youth and the youth's family with the treatment and services necessary for holding the youth accountable and preventing institutional placement.
    (7)  "Intensive surveillance" means monitoring a youth's activities through frequent face-to-face contacts, electronic monitoring, and collateral contacts, which include contacts with school personnel, employers, therapists, and relatives.
    (8)  "ISP" or "intensive supervision program" means the program under s. 938.534 , Stats., that provides intensive surveillance and community-based treatment services for youth and their families.
    (9)  "Parent" has the meaning given in s. 938.02 (13) , Stats.
    (10)  "Secure detention facility" means a locked facility approved by the department of corrections under s. 301.37 , Stats., for the secure, temporary confinement of a youth.
    (11)  "Youth" means a person who has been adjudicated delinquent and ordered by a court under s. 938.34 (2r) , Stats., to participate in the intensive supervision program.
Cr. Register, June, 2000, No. 534 , eff. 7-1-00; correction in (4), (10) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 6. , Stats., and correction in (7) made under s. 35.17 , Stats., Register December 2015 No. 720 .