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

Title 50 – Youth

Provides referral procedures, procedures, and formalization of agreement requirements.

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe of Washington

Title 33 – Youth Code

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.