
Scenario 5A: Voluntary Return of a Runaway
What’s happening:
- Maria Test [Insert State Name], age 14, has been detained as a runaway from another state.
- Local law enforcement officials notified the state ICJ Office of her detention and the need for return.
What to do:
- Set up a new Juvenile Profile for Maria Test [Insert State Name].
- Initiate a Return case where the juvenile has been apprehended.
- The “Home/Demanding Confirmation” Return Type and “Return Type confirmation” is “Runaway”
- The “Form III Court Hearing Information” is “Signed Form III”
- Process the Return Case until closed by the “Home / Demanding State.”
Where to start the return process:
Scenario 5B: Event – Request to Apprehend Juvenile— Holding State Unable to Locate Juvenile
What’s happening:
- Maria Test [Insert State Name] has run away from home again. Her parents have reported her as a runaway to local law enforcement officials.
- Her parents believe she is at her boyfriend’s house in a neighboring state.
What to do:
- As the Home/Demanding State, begin with juvenile created in Scenario 3A, initiate a Return case “Request to apprehend juvenile.”
- Process the case to close where the Holding State is unable to locate the juvenile.
Where to start:
Scenario 5C: Event – Juvenile Apprehended, Non-Voluntary Return, Refusal to Sign Form III
What’s happening:
- Maria Test [Insert State Name] was reported as a runaway, then apprehended by local law enforcement officers at her boyfriend’s home in a neighboring state.
What to do:
- Beginning with juvenile created in Scenario 3A, initiate a Return case as the Holding State where the juvenile has been apprehended.
- The “Home/Demanding Confirmation” Return Type and “Return Type confirmation” is “Runaway.”
- The “Form III Court Hearing Information” is “Refusal to Sign Form III.”
- Complete the “Requisition” section.
- Process the Return Case until closed by the “Home / Demanding State.”
- Process the case to close.
- This scenario highlights how decisions made control subsequent options presented.
Where to start:
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