Council on Sex Offender Treatment 1100 West 49th Street Austin, Texas 78756-3183 (512) 834-4530 (512) 834-4511 - FAX The Council on Sex Offender Treatment (CSOT) and the Interagency Advisory Committee met at 1:30 p.m, Friday March 30, 2001 at the Holiday Inn North, Austin, Texas 78752. CHAIR: Walter J. Meyer, III, MD MEMBERS: Liles Arnold, LPC Kristy M. Carr Richard Mack,LMFT Maria T. Molett MA, LPC, LMFT David Swinson, Jr. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Kelly Page I. Call to order, Chairperson, Walter J. Meyer, III, M.D. Meeting called to order at 1:40 p.m. on March 30, 2001. II. Introduction of Members, Guests, and Staff. Council Members Present: Walter J. Meyer, III, M.D. Liles Arnold Richard Mack Maria Molett Kristy Carr David Swinson Interagency Advisory Committee (IAC) present: Glen Kercher Grace Davis Janet Latham Pat Logterman Paul Jordan Mary Ruth Bahari Michael Maples Ana Aguirre Wesley Shackelford Interagency Advisory Committee (IAC) not present: Rosalie Boldin Camille Cain Estelle Guillen Judy Johnson TDH Staff present: Kelly Page Deborah Scott David Richards Jan Melton-Kissel Becky Berryhill Debbie Peterson Jim Zukowski Public Present: Elizabeth Calderon III. Approval of Meeting Minutes from February 11, 2001 meeting. Maria Molett motioned and Kristy Carr seconded for approval of the February 11, 2001 minutes. All were in favor. IV. Division Director's Report. Dr. Jim Zukowski, Division Director, announced that Debbie Peterson, Assistant Division Director would present and discuss the budget handouts regarding CSOT and Civil Commitment (CC) budgets. Debbie Peterson discussed and answered questions concerning the budget. Dr. Zukowski distributed a hand-out regarding legislation that has been filed. He discussed the bills that pertained to the CSOT/CC program, including the HB11 that adds a board member to the Council on Sex Offender Treatment. Dr. Zukowski also reminded everyone about the Health Professions Council Clear Conference to be held in San Antonio on September 13-15, 2001 at the Hyatt Regency. V. Council Chairperson's Report. Dr. Meyer had nothing to report VI. Civil Commitment Multi disciplinary Team member report. Liles Arnold reported that the Multi-disciplinary Team reviewed 24 out of 27 cases, seven were referred for Civil Commitment. The team is caught up and on schedule at this time. VII. Interagency Advisory Committee (IAC) Chairperson's Report. Dr. Glen Kercher, Chairman of the Interagency Advisory Committee (IAC) briefed the Council on the lunch meeting the IAC held prior to the Council meeting. * The IAC feels that inviting a public entity to co-sponsor the conference could lead to problems. * IAC believes it is important to monitor professional actions of registrants. * The IAC feels that contracting agencies need to be educated about the CSOT program. VIII. Discussion and Possible action on IAC report and recommendations. No action taken. IX. Executive Director's Report. Kelly Page: * Updated the Council on upcoming conferences that the Council will be participating in, co-sponsoring or setting up our display booth. * Passed out a hand-out from NASW/Texas Sponsorship Agreement and asked the Council if they would be interested in advertising in the sponsor book or would they prefer to only set up our booth. The decision was to set up our display booth. * Updated the Council on the four civil commitment cases that are pending: one in Montgomery County; Skyview TDCJ unit; Rusk State Hospital; and Marshall or Beaumont area. The training for new contractors will be held in Austin in April. Kelly will be flying to Oklahoma at the first of April to train the new case manager and treatment provider for the Oklahoma case. Currently there are 3 civil commitment cases. * Reported that currently CSOT has 321 registrants, with 4 new applications pending the applications review committee and one renewal awaiting the Adult Conference certificate. * Reported for the month of January, 3 complaints were received * Reported that one Letter of Concern was mailed out. * Discussed a hand-out that was provided to the Council to explain her position as a Texas Department of Health employee and what she can or cannot do because of Employee Ethics, Standards of Conduct, and Conflict of Interest pertaining to the Legislators and Budget matters. * Passed out and discussed an updated Projects chart for the Council and IAC members to show each member what work groups they are on and to remind them of pending projects including the upcoming newsletter articles. * Distributed a hand-out with the Council on the Contextualizing Sex Offender Management Legislation and Policy: Evaluating the Problem of Latent Consequences in Community Notification Laws The meeting recessed at 3:00 p.m. and reconvened at 3:10 p.m. X. Discussion and Possible action regarding expenditures for the VERSA LicenseEase software for the Council and the outpatient sexually violent predator treatment program. Kelly Page, Executive Director, Council on Sex Offender Treatment discussed a hand-out explaining the process regarding the purchase of the VERSA software. The Council is being asked to gather more information regarding the purchase of the VERSA software. Becky Berryhill, Bureau Chief explained that Mr. Rick Bays, Associate Commissioner, Gloria Moreno, Office of Intergovernmental Policy and Mr. Ben Delgado, Deputy Commissioner will present this information to Legislative Representatives. Dr. Meyer asked what the Council could do to help. Ms. Berryhill stated that writing a letter of support signed by all the affected Boards could be very helpful. XI. Discussion and Possible action regarding revision of the renewal application forms. This item was deferred until the rules committee meets. XII. Discussion and Possible action regarding the Pros and Cons of Juvenile registration. Mr. Liles Arnold presented a revised draft paper regarding the Pros and Cons of Juvenile registration. Several comments were addressed about other changes that might need to be added. However the group decided that by the time the revisions were done, it would be too late to submit to the legislators for action. It was agreed to use Mr. Arnold's work as a position paper, for the group to contact the legislators as private citizens, and to re-write the position paper and have Paul Jordan, member of the Interagency Advisory Council to take with him to future legislative hearings. This item was then tabled. XIII. Discussion and Possible action regarding recent legislation filed. Kelly Page, Executive Director, Council on Sex Offender Treatment, David Richards, General Counsel, Paul Jordan and Grace Davis all gave updates on legislation filed that pertains to the Council on Sex Offender Treatment and the Civil Commitment Program. XIV. Discussion and Possible action regarding the Texas Health and Human Service Commission, Report on Texas Department of Health Regulatory Programs- Recommendation for Consolidating, Restructuring, or Moving Health-Related Regulatory Programs, December 15, 2000. A packet including the minutes from the Council of Independent Licensing Board Chairs meeting was given to everyone. Ms. Kristy Carr, Council member gave the group an update from this meeting. She stated that the main concern was the problem with communication. No action was taken. XV. Discussion and Possible action regarding complaint #00-SO-006. No discussion or action was taken at this time. XVI Public Comment. None XVII. Presentation of Future Agenda Items. None XVIII. Discussion of Future Meeting Dates. July 2001 during the Juvenile Conference. XIX. Adjournment. Liles Arnold moved and Richard Mack seconded for adjournment at 4:45 p.m. All were in favor. The motion passed.