{"id":613,"date":"2009-10-18T19:48:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T01:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2009-10-18T20:08:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T02:08:31","slug":"independent-basis-for-commitment-to-dcfs-under-the-amended-section-2-27-of-jca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/18\/independent-basis-for-commitment-to-dcfs-under-the-amended-section-2-27-of-jca\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Basis for Commitment to DCFS Under the amended Section 2-27 of JCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/OPINIONS\/AppellateCourt\/2009\/1stDistrict\/September\/1090100.pdf\">In re S.D., No 1-09-0100<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prior to June 1, 2008, section 2-27(l)(d) of the JCA stated that &#8220;A minor charged with a\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1255916349_0\" style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #0066cc; cursor: pointer;\">criminal offense<\/span> under the\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1255916349_1\" style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\">Criminal Code <\/span>of 1961 or adjudicated delinquent shall not be placed in the custody or committed to the Department of Children and Family Services by any court.&#8221;\u00a0 The language of the statute was amended on June 1, 2008 and added, &#8220;&#8230;except a minor for whom an independent basis of abuse, neglect or dependency exists.\u00a0 An independent basis exists when allegations or adjudication of abuse, neglect, or dependency do not arise from the same facts, incident, or circumstances which give rise to a charge or adjudication of delinquency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>S.D. had recently been returned home after many years in a foster\/private guardian home. Living with his mother had not worked out and his mother no longer wanted him in her home.\u00a0 DCFS appealed the\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1255916349_2\" style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #0066cc; cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial;\">trial court&#8217;s<\/span> decision to place S.D. back into the custody of DCFS after the minor had turned 17 and had been convicted of a criminal offense.\u00a0 DCFS claimed that no independent basis existed upon which to appoint DCFS as guardian.<br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\" \/><br style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\" \/><span id=\"lw_1255916349_3\" style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\">Trial court<\/span> based its decision on the &#8220;plain reading of the statute,&#8221; and that the amended portion of the statute gave the court wide discretion to do what is in the best interests of S.D.\u00a0 Judgement affirmed.<\/p>\n<p>(A.F. ,CIV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In re S.D., No 1-09-0100 Prior to June 1, 2008, section 2-27(l)(d) of the JCA stated that &#8220;A minor charged with a\u00a0criminal offense under the\u00a0Criminal Code of 1961 or adjudicated delinquent shall not be placed in the custody or committed to the Department of Children and Family Services by any court.&#8221;\u00a0 The language of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}