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Interstate Compact

Interstate Compact for Juveniles

Interstate Compact for Juveniles (ICJ) ensures that member states are responsible for the cooperative and proper supervision or return of juveniles. The ICJ serves both delinquents and status offenders, who are on probation or parole supervision and who have absconded, escaped or runaway, and in so doing have endangered their own safety and/or the safety of others. The ICJ provides the procedures for the requesting of supervision in states other than where the juvenile was found guilty and placed on probation or parole supervision. Additionally, it provides for the procedures for juveniles who have escaped, absconded or runaway from their home state.

All fifty states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Guam are members of the ICJ. The Governor of each state appoints a compact administrator to ensure the cooperation between states in order to provide for the protection of the juveniles and the public. The Director of the Department of Juvenile Justice is the appointed Compact Administrator and the daily operation of the ICJ is delegated to the ICJ Specialist.

Additional information to include ICJ history, forms and manuals, can be found on the website of the Association of Juvenile Compact Administrators at: www.ajca.us