A. At any hearing including, but not limited to, hearings conducted pursuant to Section 1-8-103 of Title 10A of the Oklahoma Statutes, where it is determined that a child in state custody will be released from state custody, the district attorney or the attorney for the child may give verbal notice to the court of an objection to the order of the court and an intention to seek review of that order based on the grounds that the order of the court releasing the child from state custody creates a serious risk of danger to the health or safety of the child.

B. Upon giving such notice, the court issuing the custody order in question shall stay the custody order pending the filing of an application and completion of review as provided in this section. The district attorney or attorney for the child shall file with the presiding judge of the administrative judicial district a written application for review within three (3) judicial days from the custody order. If a written application for review is not filed within such time period, or if a written notice to the trial court withdrawing the objection is filed within that time period, the objection will be deemed abandoned and the stay shall expire.

C. Each application for review shall be assigned by the presiding judge of the administrative judicial district to a judge within that administrative judicial district with juvenile docket responsibilities. The review shall be completed within five (5) judicial days of the filing of the written application for review. The review conducted by the reviewing judge shall address the question of whether releasing the child from state custody creates a serious risk of danger to the health or safety of the child. The reviewing court shall review the record of the hearing and any other evidence deemed relevant by the reviewing court. At the conclusion of the review, the reviewing court shall issue its findings of fact and conclusions of law and report them to the court issuing the custody order under review.

D. A finding by the reviewing court that the order releasing the child from state custody creates a serious risk of danger to the health or safety of the child shall be controlling and the court issuing the order under review shall proceed to enter a different custody order. If the reviewing court finds that the order under review does not create a serious risk of danger to the health or safety of the child and that the order is otherwise appropriate then the court issuing the order under review shall release the stay and the order shall be subject to appeal as provided in Section 1-5-101 of Title 10A of the Oklahoma Statutes. The failure of any court to issue the stay mandated by this section shall be subject to immediate mandamus to an appropriate court.

Added by Laws 2009, c. 233, § 126, emerg. eff. May 21, 2009.