§ 115.65 Coordinated response

Purpose of the Standard:

  • To ensure that every person in the facility who has the responsibility for responding to an incident of sexual abuse, including first responders, medical and mental health providers, investigators, and facility leadership, understands precisely what their roles are and how their roles interact with others’ so that the facility achieves an effective, coordinated response to every incident of sexual abuse.
  • To ensure the facility has developed a written plan requiring that the actions of all initial responders are coordinated so that their interventions following an incident of sexual abuse are organized, timely, and deliberately and systematically focused on the needs of the victim.
  • To enable staff to protect the safety and security of the victim as well as of the facility, while ensuring that physical evidence is preserved, perpetrators are identified and secured, and timely investigation of the incident is begun.
Prisons and Jails

The facility shall develop a written institutional plan to coordinate actions taken in response to an incident of sexual abuse, among staff first responders, medical and mental health practitioners, investigators, and facility leadership.

Lockups

(a) The agency shall develop a written institutional plan to coordinate actions taken in response to a lockup incident of sexual abuse, among staff first responders, medical and mental health practitioners, investigators, and agency leadership.

(b) If a victim is transferred from the lockup to a jail, prison, or medical facility, the agency shall, as permitted by law, inform the receiving facility of the incident and the victim’s potential need for medical or social services, unless the victim requests otherwise.

Community Confinement

The facility shall develop a written institutional plan to coordinate actions taken in response to an incident of sexual abuse, among staff first responders, medical and mental health practitioners, investigators, and facility leadership.

Juvenile Facilities

The facility shall develop a written institutional plan to coordinate actions taken in response to an incident of sexual abuse among staff first responders, medical and mental health practitioners, investigators, and facility leadership.