WSR 17-02-047 PERMANENT RULES DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS [Filed December 29, 2016, 12:56 p.m., effective January 29, 2017] Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: To update the WAC to reflect the current structure of the department and provide links to monitor updates.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 137-04-020.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 72.01.090.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 16-21-103 on October 19, 2016.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: December 30 [29], 2016.
R. Morgan
Secretary
AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending WSR 07-12-073, filed 6/5/07, effective 7/6/07)
WAC 137-04-020 Structure of the department.
(((1) The executive head of the department is the secretary who is appointed by the governor with the consent of the senate, and serves at the pleasure of the governor. The secretary manages the department and is responsible for the administration of adult correctional programs, including but not limited to the operation of all state correctional institutions or facilities used for the confinement of convicted felons.
(2) The department is organized into three divisions and three subdepartments: The prisons division, the community corrections division, the administrative services division, the communications department, the health services department and the risk management department. Each division is headed by a deputy secretary who reports to the secretary. The responsibilities of each division are:
(a) The prisons division is responsible for the operation of all adult correctional facilities, including the Washington State Penitentiary; the Washington Corrections Center; the Monroe Correctional Complex; the McNeil Island Corrections Center; the Airway Heights Corrections Center; the Clallam Bay Corrections Center; the Stafford Creek Corrections Center; the Washington Corrections Center for Women; the Cedar Creek Corrections Center; the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center; the Larch Corrections Center; the Olympic Corrections Center; the Ahtanum View assisted living facility; the Pine Lodge Corrections Center for Women; the Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women; and such other state correctional institutions, camps or facilities as may hereafter be established. The division includes the correctional industries program.
(b) The community corrections division is responsible for the supervision of adult felony offenders within the community, including offenders in the work release program and other community residential programs.
(c) The administrative services division is responsible for providing a variety of services to the other divisions of the department including financial and management services; information technology; capital planning and development; rules, contracts, budget development and planning and research; and human resources.)) (1) The department is a statutorily created agency of the state of Washington. The executive head of the department is the secretary who is appointed by the governor with the consent of the senate, and serves at the pleasure of the governor. The secretary manages the department and is responsible for the administration of adult correctional programs including, but not limited to, the operation of all state correctional institutions or facilities used for the confinement of convicted felons and the supervision of certain offenders in the community. The secretary may create a succession plan to identify individuals to act as the secretary's designee.
(2) Current organizational and contact information can be found on department's public web site at http://www.doc.wa.gov/about/agency/leadership.htm.
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