RCW 9.94A.207
Community placement, custody violators -- Arrest, detention, financial responsibility.

(1) The secretary may issue warrants for the arrest of any offender who violates a condition of community placement. The arrest warrants shall authorize any law enforcement or peace officer or community corrections officer of this state or any other state where such offender may be located, to arrest the offender and place him or her in total confinement pending disposition of the alleged violation. The department shall compensate the local jurisdiction at the office of financial management's adjudicated rate, in accordance with RCW 70.48.440. A community corrections officer, if he or she has reasonable cause to believe an offender in community placement has violated a condition of community placement, may suspend the person's community placement status and arrest or cause the arrest and detention in total confinement of the offender, pending the determination of the secretary as to whether the violation has occurred. The community corrections officer shall report to the secretary all facts and circumstances and the reasons for the action of suspending community placement status. A violation of a condition of community placement shall be deemed a violation of the sentence for purposes of RCW 9.94A.195. The authority granted to community corrections officers under this section shall be in addition to that set forth in RCW 9.94A.195.

(2) Inmates, as defined in RCW 72.09.020, who have been transferred to community custody and who are detained in a local correctional facility are the financial responsibility of the department of corrections. The community custody inmate shall be removed from the local correctional facility not later than eight days, excluding weekends and holidays, following admittance to the local correctional facility and notification that the inmate is available for movement to a state correctional institution. However, if good cause is shown, the department may negotiate with local correctional authorities for an additional period of detention.

[1988 c 153 § 5. Recodified in 2001 as RCW 9.94A.740.]

NOTES:

Effective date -- Application of increased sanctions -- 1988 c 153: See notes following RCW 9.94A.030.