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the commissioner;

(4) “contraband” means any of the following items that have not been specifically approved by the department or the facility superintendent for a resident to obtain, make, or possess:

(A) weapons, including firearms, explosives, knives, hacksaw blades, tear gas, dangerous chemical agents, or any tool or other object that may be used as a weapon, from which a weapon may be fashioned, or that is intended to be perceived as a weapon;

(B) controlled substances, the possession of which is punishable by other criminal or civil penalties, and any other type of medication;

(C) alcohol, including wine, distilled spirits, home brew, and any other type of alcoholic substance;

(D) cameras, sound or video recorders, or any electronic or mechanical receiving or transmitting equipment;

(E) any article, including keys, tools, electronic or mechanical devices, and identification information, intended to be used as a means of facilitating an escape; and

(F) any other article, including money, toiletries, books, food, mail, and pictures, that is introduced, taken, or conveyed into a facility, or made, obtained, or possessed in a facility in a manner intended to frustrate or evade detection;

(5) “counselor” means a person who provides counseling, care, and supervision services for residents of a juvenile institution;

(6) “department” means the Department of Family and Community Services;

(7) “director” means the director of the division of juvenile justice, or any employee of the division designated by the director or the commissioner to carry out any official function of the director;

(8) “division” means the division of juvenile justice;

(9) “family” means any person or group of persons having one of the following relationships to the juvenile: spouse, father, mother, sister, brother, son, daughter, step relationship to the previously mentioned relations, or any person having an immediate family relationship with the juvenile during the juvenile’s formative years;

(10) “facility-wide emergency” means a situation in which a resident poses a threat to the security of a juvenile facility and that threat cannot be neutralized with the resources available to the facility at that time;

(11) “juvenile correctional facility” means a facility for juveniles adjudicated delinquent and committed to the care and custody of the Department of Family and Community Services;

(12) “juvenile detention facility” means a facility or separate quarters within a facility