Chief Probation Officer answers Gazette questions re: AB109

On October 1, 2012 the state of California had been operating under the prison realignment bill AB 109 for one year.  Within weeks of the AB 109 anniversary Calaveras County Probation Department announced that they would be contracting out the Adult Day Reporting Center operations to BI Inc, a company specializing in electronic monitoring and probation style reporting centers. The Gazette took the opportunity to ask Chief Probation Officer Teri Hall a few questions.
 
When will the contract with BI Inc be signed? Unsure, the CCP is discussing the construction budget.

According to BI electronic monitoring will not be within their duties for Calaveras County, how do you plan on handling the issue of lack of cell service in the county with regards to electronic monitoring? As you know, cell service is a challenge for everyone who lives in the Foothill region.  We work with the offenders that live in remote areas, to have them respond daily to a location that will allow the GPS points to load onto the satellite.

An adult Day Reporting Center was implemented in Tuolumne in January, was there sound reasoning why Calaveras did not implement a program of this nature within the first year of AB109 funding?  Our Plan was not passed until April 2012, we simply did not have time to put a DRC in place before the end of the fiscal year June 2012.