Tex.
Human Resources Code Section 142.004
Juvenile Probation Personnel
(a)
A juvenile probation officer or an employee of a juvenile probation community service restitution program is not liable for damages arising from an act or failure to act in connection with manual labor performed by a child who has been placed on informal adjustment or who has been adjudicated a delinquent child or a child in need of supervision and the labor was performed as a condition to probation ordered under Section 54.04 (Disposition Hearing)(d)(1), Family Code, and the act or failure to act was not intentional, wilfully or wantonly negligent, or performed with conscious indifference or reckless disregard for the safety of others.(b)
Juvenile probation personnel employed by a political subdivision of the state are state employees for the purposes of Chapter 104 (State Liability for Conduct of Public Servants), Civil Practice and Remedies Code.(c)
A juvenile probation officer or an employee of a juvenile probation community service restitution program is not liable for damages arising from an act or failure to act by a juvenile probation officer or an employee of a juvenile probation community service restitution program in connection with manual labor performed as a condition of probation ordered under Section 54.04 (Disposition Hearing)(d)(1), Family Code, if the act or failure to act:(1)
was performed in an official capacity; and(2)
was not intentional, wilfully or wantonly negligent, or performed with conscious indifference or reckless disregard for the safety of others.
Source:
Section 142.004 — Juvenile Probation Personnel, https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HR/htm/HR.142.htm#142.004 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).
