Community colleges: county probation departments: instructional service agreements

The law creates a route to academic and career technical education for justice-involved youth when the community college district assigned to the facility’s area declines or does not respond to a county request.

What the law does ​

• Allows a home community college district or one of its colleges to contract with a county probation department to teach at a juvenile justice facility.
• Allows another community college district or college to contract with the county if the home district declines the request or takes no action within 60 calendar days.
• Bars the home district from blocking outside-college instruction once those conditions are met.
• Preserves the home district’s ability to offer its own courses and does not give outside colleges exclusive teaching rights.
• Keeps existing agreement, funding, academic, and reporting requirements in place.

Who it affects ​

• Justice-involved youth in county-operated juvenile halls, youth correctional centers, and camps.
• County probation departments seeking college courses for those facilities.
• Community college districts and colleges, including the district assigned to the facility’s service area.