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Article 2. Admission to Juvenile Correctional Facilities. Rule 7 AAC 52.005. Institutional classification 7 AAC 52.010. Criteria for admission 7 AAC 52.015. Legal authority to admit 7 AAC 52.020. Search upon admission 7 AAC 52.025. Physical examination 7 AAC 52.030. Photographs and fingerprints 7 AAC 52.035. Placement in treatment program 7 AAC 52.040. Clothing and valuables 7 AAC 52.005. Institutional classification. (a) When a juvenile has been institutionalized by court order, the juvenile shall appear before an institutional classification committee for placement in a facility. The division shall give the juvenile and the juvenile’s parents or legal guardian written notice at least five days before the hearing, except that any of those individuals may waive the time period, in writing, on that individual’s own behalf. (b) The institutional classification committee must be composed of one representative from each of the four division regions. The director’s designee shall appoint each member. The chair for the hearing is the representative for the division region where the juvenile resides. The chair and other members of the committee must be employees of the department. The chair is a nonvoting member of the committee. The committee must have two members representing juvenile probation and two members representing facility staff. A member who is absent from a classification hearing shall assign a substitute from juvenile probation or facility staff. (c) Classification meetings must be informal and nonadversarial in nature. The committee shall reach a placement decision after considering the following factors:

(1) treatment objectives for the juvenile;

(2) protection of the public and the juvenile; and

(3) resources available to the division. (d) Decisions must be made by a majority of the committee, and must be recorded in writing specifically discussing alternatives considered and reasons for rejecting them. All appropriate in-state resources must be considered for placement before a juvenile may be classified to a facility outside the state. (e) Within two working days after reaching a decision on placement, the committee chair shall notify the referring juvenile probation officer and the recommended receiving facility of the placement decision. The notification must include the committee’s findings and conclusions. The