PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 8

(i) (1) Any public or private agency that requests the assignment of a
community service worker is responsible for supervising the worker.

(2)     Any public or private agency must accept the assignment of a community
service worker on the terms and conditions imposed by the court.

(3)     Any public or private agency may report the unsuitability of a
community service worker to the court. If a worker is reported to be unsuitable, the court
shall remove the worker from a project and, after considering all the facts and
circumstances, may reassign the worker or take other action allowed by law.

(4)     Nothing in this section shall be construed as a limitation on the authority
of the court to direct any juvenile or any defendant in a criminal case to make restitution
to the victim of a particular crime or to perform certain services for the victim as an
alternative means of restitution, either as a condition of probation, condition of
suspended sentence or in lieu of payment of any fines or court costs imposed, under the
supervision of the Division of Parole and Probation, the Department of Juvenile
[Services] JUSTICE, or any other agency or individual as directed by the court.

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(f) "Criminal justice agency" means any government agency or subunit of any
such agency which is authorized by law to exercise the power of arrest, detention,
prosecution, adjudication, correctional supervision, custodial treatment or confinement
under Title 12 of the Health - General Article, rehabilitation, or release of persons
suspected, charged, or convicted of a crime or relieved of criminal punishment by a
verdict of not criminally responsible, or is responsible for criminal identification activities
and the collection, storage, and dissemination of criminal history record information, and
which allocates a substantial portion of its annual budget to any of these functions. The
term does not include the Department of Juvenile [Services] JUSTICE or a juvenile
court, except as provided under § 747(a)(21) and § 747A of this subtitle, but it does
include the following agencies, when exercising jurisdiction over criminal matters or
alternative dispositions of criminal matters, or criminal history record information:

(1)     State, county, and municipal police departments and agencies, sheriffs'
offices, correctional facilities, jails, and detention centers;

(2)     Any agency required to report to the central repository under § 12-107
or § 12-112 of the Health - General Article;

(3)     The offices of the Attorney General, the State's Attorneys, and any
other person authorized by law to prosecute persons accused of criminal offenses; or

(4)     The Administrative Office of the Courts, the Court of Appeals, the
Court of Special Appeals, the circuit courts, the District Court of Maryland, and the
offices of the clerks of these courts.

765.

(a) (2) "Agency" means any of the following:
(i) The Department of State Police;

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