Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 121 - Corrections Department
Chapter 2955 - JUVENILE SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT
Part 2955.0010 - STATUTORY AUTHORITY AND PURPOSE

Subpart 1. Authority.

Minnesota Statutes, section 241.67, subdivision 1, establishes a sex offender treatment system under the administration of the commissioner of corrections to provide and finance a range of sex offender treatment programs. Minnesota Statutes, section 241.67, subdivision 2, paragraph (a), requires the commissioner of corrections to adopt rules under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 14, that establish standards for sex offender treatment programs and for the certification of sex offender treatment programs in state and local correctional facilities and state-operated sex offender treatment programs not operated in state or local correctional facilities. A correctional facility may not operate a sex offender treatment program unless the program has met the standards adopted by and been certified by the commissioner of corrections.

Subp. 2. Purpose and scope.

This chapter sets minimum sex offender treatment program standards through rules according to Minnesota Statutes, section 241.67, subdivision 2, paragraph (a). These standards apply to and provide a framework for the inspection and certification of: