§ 301-14.5 - Procedures for evaluating risk to threatened individuals.

When a situation occurs that appears to be life-threatening, the agency's first responsibility is to take any appropriate action necessary to protect the eligible individual(s), including removal from the home. The agency may ask the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) for assistance in determining the degree and seriousness of the threat. The agency, however, ultimately is responsible for deciding in each individual case, based on its own assessment of the situation (and the advice of the DOJ, if requested and furnished), whether protective action should be initiated, or continued if already undertaken, and the amount of subsistence and transportation expenses that will be approved. At 30-day intervals the agency will reevaluate the situation and decide whether any further extension of the time period is appropriate.