BI Inc, a subsidiary of GEO Group Inc traded on the NYSE, is a corporation founded in 1978 specifically designed to deliver correctional, detention and residential treatment programs to federal, state and local government agencies. Though their emphasis and specialty lay with electronic monitoring they also offer the AB109 buzz word 'evidence based' treatment and counseling services.
According to BI Inc spokesperson they do not hold a contract with Calaveras County for electronic monitoring. The question of reliability of electronic monitoring due to poor cell reception throughout the county has made the news in the past, yet neither the county nor BI Inc would verify if this was the reasoning for the lack of that contractual component.
The following adult day reporting center information is from the Chief Probation Officers of California website.
The
Role of the Probation Department in the Adult Day Reporting Center
Department’s Mission Statement:
"We administer corrective services that hold offenders accountable for their behavior, and provide rehabilitative services in order to strengthen and protect our community."
As our mission statement indicates we hold probationers accountable and do our best to provide them the services they need to be a positive and contributing member of our community. Our belief holds that if you give the appropriate amount of services to an individual balanced with the right amount of motivation, they are often able to accomplish far more then they ever thought possible. This is where the Adult Day Reporting Center enters to the picture.
The target population which is the most statistically responsive to the services provided by the Adult Day Reporting Center is offenders between the ages of 18 and 25. The probationers who are selected to participate usually have been assessed and meet the criteria fitting a medium risk offender.
All of the probationers are assessed with Level of Service Inventory (LSI) assessment tool. The LSI assesses the probationer’s criminogenic factors in offender’s life to determine their level of risk to re-offend. The following factors are considered in the LSI assessment:
1. Criminal History
2. Education/Employment Status
3. Financial Status
4. Family/Martial Status
5. Housing Stability/Environmental Influences
6. Leisure/Recreation Involvement
7. Companions/Social Networks
8. Alcohol/Drug Problems
9. Emotional/Personal Issues
10. Attitudes/Norm Orientation
The LSI assessment places people into three possible categories. 1 – 19 Low Risk, 20 -27 Medium Risk, 28 and above High Risk.
Anyone who scores above 19 and is not a sex offender is eligible for the Adult Day Reporting Center Program. If a probationer has an extensive history of drug use the probationer maybe more appropriately placed in a residential treatment drug program. Sex offenders are not permitted due to the close proximity of the Juvenile Day Reporting Center.
An individual is referred to the Adult Day Reporting Center two ways. The first is when they personally recognizing they have a need for a more structured and supervised program to foster success while on probation. The second and far more common method is when a probationer has one or more pending violations of their conditions of probation. The deputy probation officer will weigh the factors of the case to see if the probationer meets the criteria to attend the Adult Day Reporting Center program.
When a probation officer decides they would rather send a probationer to the Adult Day Reporting Center in lieu of filing an affidavit of probation violation, they have the probationer sign a contract. The contract stipulates the probationer agrees to attend and successfully complete the Adult Day Reporting Center program as an alternative to having a violation of probation filed with the Superior Court. If they successfully complete the program their violations cannot be filed against them on that matter. Once the probationer voluntarily signs the contract then the probation officer sends a referral to the Adult Day Reporting Center and directs the defendant to go to the program.
Once the probationer has started the Adult Day Reporting Center the assigned probation officer will receive updates on the probationer’s status in the program. The probation officer collaborates with the staff of the Adult Day Reporting Center to insure the probationer stays on a successful track in the program. The probation officer will continue to monitor the defendants conduct outside of the program as well. If the probationer violates their conditions of probation while in the program the probation officer has the discretion to go forward with an affidavit of probation violation and arrest the defendant or to allow them to remain in the program. If the defendant remains in the program there is additional incentive for them to succeed.
There is also an on-site probation officer who acts as a liaison between the Adult Day Reporting Center and the Probation Department. The probation officer monitors the waiting list which was established to expedite program start up for the participants. The probation officer contacts the defendants on the waiting list and helps to facilitate their enrollment in Adult Day Reporting Center when there is an opening. The probation officer answer questions from the day reporting staff and participant. The officer also works with the Client Service Specialists to insure they have the appropriate paperwork and the Electronic Monitoring Supervisor when a participant is sanctioned.
If a participant is placed on the Electric Monitoring Program, due to a lack of compliance in the program the probation officer facilitates that process. While on the Electronic Monitoring Program the officer will conduct searches, chemical tests, and arrests if warranted. The probation officer observes and provides input to improve the program when needed. Some of the liaison probation officer’s standard duties are to do home visits when the Adult Day Reporting Center participants have missed classes. The liaison also supervises the Department of Juvenile Justice Minors who are actively in the program or when they completed the Adult Day Reporting Center program.
Working in tandem with the Behavioral Intervention’s Adult Day Reporting Center staff we will provide a superior level of the services to foster successful rehabilitation of probationers.
