Oregon Statutes 184.351 – Corrections population forecasts
(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall issue state corrections population forecasts including, but not limited to, expected populations of prisons and jails and community corrections caseloads, to be used by:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 184.351
- Any other state: includes any state and the District of Columbia. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
- Sentencing guidelines: A set of rules and principles established by the United States Sentencing Commission that trial judges use to determine the sentence for a convicted defendant. Source: U.S. Courts
(a) The Department of Corrections in preparing budget requests;
(b) The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission in considering amendments to sentencing guidelines; and
(c) Any other state agency concerned with the effect of offender populations or policy developments on budgeting.
(2) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall issue state corrections population forecasts on April 1 and October 1 of each year.
(3) When the Oregon Department of Administrative Services issues a state corrections population forecast, the forecast must, whenever possible:
(a) Identify the forecast’s margin of error; and
(b) Attribute growth or decline in the forecast, relative to previously issued forecasts, to specific policies or to specific components of the baseline underlying the forecast.
(4) As used in this section, ‘baseline underlying the forecast’ includes population demographics and crime trends. [1995 c.420 § 12; 2013 c.649 § 40]
[2001 c.716 § 4; repealed by 2016 c.117 § 75]
[1969 c.597 § 5; repealed by 1983 c.740 § 45]