Why are changes being made to the interest flag for juvenile legal financial obligations (LFO)?
RCW 10.82.090 provides for interest on legal financial obligations (LFO). It also makes a provision for waiving interest. An amendment to the statute in 2004 states, “This section applies to persons convicted as adults or in juvenile court.” Prior to this, juvenile legal financial obligations (LFOs) were determined to be exempt from accruing interest. The AOC reviewed the statute and determined that JIS needed changes to allow interest on juvenile LFOs. Because the statute provides for interest to be assessed on “judgments” for juvenile LFOs, interest should be assessed on a juvenile LFO, as a general matter, if a judgment case (S9) has been entered. The JIS system has been revised to allow this to happen, subject to the more detailed information below. When these modifications are implemented, the JIS CAR screen will allow the court to set the “accrue interest” flag for juvenile offender (S8) cases if a judgment case (S9) is entered in SCOMIS and the judgment filed date is reflected o
