OAR 213-040-0030: Definitions

(1) "Advisory committee" means the committee organized pursuant to OAR 213-040-0040. (2) "Commission" means the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission. (3) Community-based organization" means a Tribe-affiliated organization that is based in the community and an independent entity from system partners, a nonprofit, or an organization that has a non-profit fiscal sponsor. (4) "Outcome measure" means any objective, standard or goal to be tracked and quantitatively or qualitatively measured over a designated period to evaluate the efficacy of a program. (5) "Private entity" means any corporation, trust, association, cooperative or other organization that is not a public entity or a system partner. (6) "Program" means a restorative justice program administered by a private entity or a public entity. (7) "Public entity" means (a) any Tribe, and (b) any Oregon "public body" as defined in ORS 174.109. (8) "Restorative justice" means a community-based alternative to the criminal and juvenile legal systems that aims to center the needs of the harmed party and foster accountability within the responsible party without resorting to incarceration or criminal conviction. (9) "Socially disadvantaged individual" means an individual who has been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias, without regard to individual qualities, because of the individual's identity as a member of a group. (10) "System partner" means an entity that operates within the criminal and juvenile legal systems, including but not limited to state and local law enforcement entities, county departments of community justice and state-run community corrections entities, state and municipal courts, district attorney offices, and criminal defense attorneys and criminal defense law firms or consortia. (11) "Tribe" means one of the nine federally recognized Indian Tribes in Oregon.