Section 1605 Of Title 15. Outpatient Status For Mentally Disordered And Developmentally Disabled Offenders From California Penal Code >> Title 15. >> Part 2.
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. (a) In accordance with Section 1615 of this code and Section
5709.8 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, the State Department of
State Hospitals shall be responsible for the supervision of persons
placed on outpatient status under this title. The State Department of
State Hospitals shall designate, for each county or region comprised
of two or more counties, a community program director who shall be
responsible for administering the community treatment programs for
persons committed from that county or region under the provisions
specified in Section 1600.
(b) The State Department of State Hospitals shall notify in
writing the superior court, the district attorney, the county public
defender or public defense agency, and the county mental health
director of each county as to the person designated to be the
community program director for that county, and timely written notice
shall be given whenever a new community program director is to be
designated.
(c) The community program director shall be the outpatient
treatment supervisor of persons placed on outpatient status under
this title. The community program director may delegate the
outpatient treatment supervision responsibility to a designee.
(d) The outpatient treatment supervisor shall, at 90-day intervals
following the beginning of outpatient treatment, submit to the
court, the prosecutor and defense counsel, and to the community
program director, where appropriate, a report setting forth the
status and progress of the defendant.