(A) Contacting Parents: If a police officer reasonably believes that a juvenile is in violation of any of the provisions of this Chapter, the officer shall notify the juvenile that he/she is in violation of this Chapter, and shall require the juvenile to provide his/her name, address and telephone number and how to contact his or her parent or guardian.
(B) Determining Age Of Juvenile: In determining the age of the juvenile, and in the absence of convincing evidence such as a birth certificate, a police officer on the street shall, in the first instance, use his/her best judgment in determining age.
(C) Questioning Of Juvenile/Parents: The normal procedure shall then be to immediately notify the parent or guardian. The juvenile and/or parents or guardian shall then be questioned. This is intended to permit ascertainment, under constitutional safeguards of relevant facts, and to centralize responsibility in the person designated there and then on duty for accurate, effective, fair, impartial and uniform enforcement, and recording, thus making available experienced personnel and access to information and records. If the parent or guardian cannot be contacted, the juvenile shall be taken to the Safe House or the Shelter Care Facility.
(D) Release Into Custody Of Parent Or Guardian: When a parent or guardian immediately called, has come to take charge of the juvenile, then and the appropriate information has been recorded, the juvenile shall be released to the custody of such parent. If the parent cannot be located or fails to take charge of the juvenile, then the juvenile shall temporarily be entrusted to an adult relative, neighbor or other person who will on behalf of a parent or guardian assume the responsibility of caring for the juvenile pending the availability or arrival of a parent or guardian.
(E) Written Acknowledgement Of Status Offense: Upon release of the juvenile to his/her parent, the juvenile and parent shall sign a written acknowledgement of the City's curfew, runaway, incorrigible, and truancy regulations which notice shall be presumptive evidence of knowledge of this Chapter.
(F) Status Offenders: Status offenders shall not be placed in any jail facility, but instead may be placed in juvenile shelter care facilities, except in the case of runaways, when there is specific detention request from a foreign jurisdiction or hold the child pending transportation agreements. (Ord. 2573, 2-23-1998)