State of Illinois
Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. Robert Peters
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
Appropriates $4,200,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for costs associated with a grant to Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities to provide specialized case management services to certain people in pretrial detention in Winnebago and in St. Clair Counties. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning appropriations.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Findings. The General Assembly finds that:
(1) The Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act, known as the SAFE-T Act, became law in 2021.
(2) The Pre-Trial Fairness Act, a key provision within the SAFE-T Act, changes the offense class for violations of conditions of pretrial release, detainable versus non-detainable offenses.
(3) Pretrial release procedures, including release on one’s own recognizance, warrant alternatives, and conditions of release, including electric monitoring and home confinement revocation, modification, and sanctions.
(4) Since 1976, Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities has had a successful record of providing behavioral health assessment and specialized case management services to pre-trial detainees.
(5) Adults in Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities’ court and probation programs showed a 71% reduction in re-arrests for drug and property crimes two years after program enrollment.
(6) Men in Illinois prisons who completed drug treatment and reentry support, including TASC case management, had a 44% lower likelihood of returning to prison within 7 years than comparable releasees.
(7) Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities has established formal relationships and credibility with corrections, jails and prisons, courts, local law enforcement, first responders, and other referral systems throughout Illinois.
(8) The area offices of Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities provide services in every county and jurisdiction in Illinois.
(9) Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities supports individuals’ reentry from jails and prisons and restorative health goals through access to a full continuum of community-based services, from treatment and recovery support to housing, employment, family services, and other individual client essential service needs.
(10) Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities has the capacity to provide toxicology testing to individuals throughout the State of Illinois.
(11) Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities works with systems partners to design and implement the most advantageous and responsive reporting procedures to ensure expedited results and lab verification and reference results.
Section 5. The sum of $4,200,000, or so much of that as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for costs associated with a grant to Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities to provide specialized case management services to individuals in pre-trial detention who are arrested but would no longer be eligible for detention under the amendatory changes to Article 110 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 made by Public Acts 101-652, 102-28, and 102-1104, commonly referred to as the Pretrial Fairness Act, in Winnebago County and in St. Clair County.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.