Arizona Laws 8-386.01. Issuance and execution of arrest warrants
A. On the issuance of an arrest warrant, the court issuing the warrant shall state in the warrant whether the person named in the warrant is to be arrested for or is to be charged with committing an offense to which this article applies or that is materially related to an offense to which this article applies.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 8-386.01
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Arrest: means the actual custodial restraint or temporary custody of a person. See Arizona Laws 8-382
- Court: means the juvenile division of the superior court when exercising its jurisdiction over children in any proceeding relating to delinquency. See Arizona Laws 8-382
- Custodial agency: means any law enforcement officer or agency, a sheriff, a county juvenile detention center, the department of juvenile corrections or a secure mental health facility that has custody of a person who is arrested or in custody for a delinquent or incorrigible offense. See Arizona Laws 8-382
- Department: means the department of child safety. See Arizona Laws 8-201
- Detention: means the temporary confinement of a juvenile who requires secure care in a physically restricting facility that is completely surrounded by a locked and physically secure barrier with restricted ingress and egress for the protection of the juvenile or the community pending court disposition or as a condition of probation. See Arizona Laws 8-201
- juvenile: means an individual who is under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 8-201
- Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- Release: means no longer in the custody of the custodial agency and includes transfer from one custodial agency to another custodial agency. See Arizona Laws 8-382
- Victim: means a person against whom the delinquent act was committed, or if the person is killed or incapacitated, the person's spouse, parent, child, grandparent or sibling, any other person related to the person by consanguinity or affinity to the second degree or any other lawful representative of the person, except if the person or the person's spouse, parent, child, grandparent, sibling, other person related to the person by consanguinity or affinity to the second degree or other lawful representative is in custody for an offense or is the accused. See Arizona Laws 8-382
B. On receipt of notice of an arrest or an impending arrest of a juvenile and if applicable pursuant to subsection A of this section, the agency that is responsible for holding the original warrant shall notify the law enforcement agency that was responsible for the original investigation of the offense of the impending detainment of the juvenile who is arrested on the law enforcement agency’s warrant.
C. On receiving notice that the warrant was executed pursuant to subsection B of this section, the law enforcement agency that was responsible for the original investigation of the offense shall do all of the following if the victim has requested notice pursuant to section 8-386:
1. Notify the victim of the arrest and advise the victim that to exercise the right to be informed if the juvenile is released the victim must contact the detention center of the juvenile probation department immediately.
2. Inform the victim of the telephone number of the detention center in which the juvenile is detained.
3. Provide the detention center with the victim information pursuant to section 8-386 so that the detention center may notify the victim of the release or escape of the juvenile pursuant to section 8-393, if applicable.
D. A law enforcement agency is not required to provide victim information pursuant to section 8-386, subsections C and E to the custodial agency at the time a juvenile is detained unless the law enforcement agency that performs the warrant arrest is also the law enforcement agency that was responsible for the original investigation of the offense.
E. The victim’s right to be informed of an arrest or a release pursuant to an executed warrant applies to warrants that are issued on or after September 1, 1996.
F. Law enforcement, courts and juvenile custodial agencies are not liable pursuant to section 8-393 for the failure to inform a victim of the arrest or release of a juvenile on warrants that were issued before September 1, 1996.