Youth & Family Peacemaking Laws
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Washington
Title 5 Domestic Relations: 5-2 Juveniles: 5-2-192-195 Peacemaking Circle
Provides for mandatory peacemaking referrals for both juvenile offender and child-in-need-of-care cases, notice requirements, confidentiality, and enforcement of disposition.
Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians of Oregon
Title 2 – Rules of Procedure, Chapter 2-13 – Wellness Court Rules
Provides procedures, purposes, policies, and sanctions for the Wellness Court to divert offenders with substance abuse issues away from mainstream courts.
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michigan
Title 10. Children, Families and Elders, Chapter 4. Juvenile Code Revisited, Sec. 415. Diversion
Provides referral standards, procedures, and the collaboration of Tribal prosecutors, juvenile probation officers, and peacemaker coordinators.
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan
Chapter 900 – Family, Title 2 – Juvenile Code
Provides authorization, philosophical background, procedures, and referral standards.
Nisqually Indian Tribe of Washington
Provides referral procedures, procedures, and formalization of agreement requirements.
Oneida Nation of Wisconsin
Chapter 702. Divorce, Annulment, Legal Separation, 702.6. Peacemaking and Mediation
Chapter 705. Child Custody, Placement and Visitation, 705.7. Peacemaking and Mediation
Provides authorization, procedures, appeals policies, and referral standards.
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe of Washington
Provides procedures, referral process, inadmissibility of information from peacemaking into evidence (except terms of an agreed Family Preservation Plan are admissible), and formalization of agreement requirements.
Pit River Tribe of California
Title 8 – Chapter 15: Youth Reclamation Program – The Peacemaker Program
Provides authorization, qualifications, and procedures (including authority to use tribally based methods).
White Earth Nation of Minnesota
Juvenile Justice Code, Chapter 12A – Peacemaking Circle
Provides guiding principles, referral process, procedures, and sentencing agreement guidelines.
