P.R. Laws tit. 4, § 1433
It is the interest of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to accept and adopt, through the present legislation, the clauses and conditions established in the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision, which reads as follows:
The Compacting States in this Interstate Compact recognize that each state is responsible for the supervision of adult offenders in the community. Each compacting state is authorized pursuant to the Bylaws and rules of this Compact to travel across state lines both to and from each compacting state in such a manner as to track the location of offenders, transfer supervision authority in an orderly and efficient manner and, when necessary, return offenders to the originating jurisdictions. The Compacting States also recognize that the United States Congress, by enacting the Crime Control Act, 4 U.S.C. Section 112 (1965), has authorized and encouraged Compacts for cooperative efforts and mutual assistance in the prevention of crime. It is the purpose of this Compact and the Interstate Commission created under this Compact, through means of joint and cooperative action among the Compacting States to provide the framework for the promotion of public safety and protect the rights of victims through the control and regulation of the Interstate movement of offenders in the community, provide for the effective tracking, supervision and rehabilitation of these offenders by the sending and receiving states, and to equitably distribute the costs, benefits and obligations of the Compact among the Compacting States. In addition this Compact shall create an Interstate Commission that will establish uniform procedures to manage the movement between states of adult offenders placed under community supervision and released to the community under the jurisdiction of courts, paroling programs or corrections administration or other corresponding agencies that will promulgate rules to achieve the purpose of this Compact; ensure an opportunity for providing information and due notice to victims and to jurisdictions where offenders, defined as such, are authorized to travel or to relocate across state lines; establish a system of uniform data collection, access to information on active criminal cases by authorized officials and regular reporting of Compact activities to the heads of state council, the state executive, legislative and judicial branches and the criminal justice administrators; monitor compliance with rules governing Interstate movement of offenders and initiate interventions to address and correct noncompliance; and coordinate training and education on the regulation of Interstate movement of offenders for officials involved in that activity. The Compacting States recognize that there is no right of any offender to live in another state and that duly accredited officers of a sending state may at all times enter a receiving state and there apprehend and retake any offender under supervision, subject to the provisions of this Compact and the Bylaws and rules promulgated under this Compact. It is the policy of the Compacting States that the activities conducted by the Interstate Commission hereby created are intended to formulate public policy and are therefore public business.
History —Aug. 11, 2004, No. 208, § 1, art. 1.