DEFINITIONS

In this subchapter: (1) "County juvenile board" means a juvenile board created under Chapter 152, Human Resources Code. (2) "Juvenile facility" means a facility that: (A) serves juveniles under a juvenile court's jurisdiction; and (B) is operated as a holdover facility, a pre-adjudication detention facility, a nonsecure facility, or a post-adjudication secure correctional facility. (2-a) "Governmental juvenile facility" means a juvenile facility operated by a unit of government. (3) "Governmental service provider" means a juvenile justice service provider operated by a unit of government. (4) "Local juvenile justice information system" means a county or multicounty computerized database of information concerning children, with data entry and access by the partner agencies that are members of the system. (5) "Partner agency" means a service provider or juvenile facility that is authorized by this subchapter to be a member of a local juvenile justice information system or that has applied to be a member of a local juvenile justice information system and has been approved by the county juvenile board or regional juvenile board committee as a member of the system. (6) "Regional juvenile board committee" means a committee that is composed of two members from each county juvenile board in a region that comprises a multicounty local juvenile information system.