093_HB2545
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1 AN ACT in relation to juvenile offenders, which may be
2 referred to as the Redeploy Illinois Program amendments.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Probation and Probation Officers Act is
6 amended by adding Section 16.1 as follows:
7 (730 ILCS 110/16.1 new)
8 Sec. 16.1. Redeploy Illinois Program.
9 (a) The purpose of this Section is to encourage the
10 deinstitutionalization of juvenile offenders establishing
11 pilot projects in counties or groups of counties that
12 reallocate State funds from juvenile correctional confinement
13 to local jurisdictions, which will establish a continuum of
14 local, community-based sanctions and treatment alternatives
15 for juvenile offenders who would be incarcerated if those
16 local services and sanctions did not exist. The allotment of
17 funds will be based on a formula that rewards local
18 jurisdictions for the establishment or expansion of local
19 alternatives to incarceration, and requires them to pay for
20 utilization of incarceration as a sanction. This redeployment
21 of funds shall be made in a manner consistent with the
22 Juvenile Court Act of 1987 and the following purposes and
23 policies:
24 (1) The juvenile justice system should protect the
25 community, impose accountability for violations of law,
26 and equip juvenile offenders with competencies to live
27 responsibly and productively.
28 (2) Juveniles should be treated in the least
29 restrictive manner possible while maintaining the safety
30 of the community.
31 (3) A continuum of services and sanctions from
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1 least restrictive to most restrictive should be available
2 in every community.
3 (4) There should be local responsibility and
4 authority for planning, organizing, and coordinating
5 service resources in the community. People in the
6 community can best choose a range of services which
7 reflect community values and meet the needs of their own
8 youth.
9 (5) Juveniles who pose a threat to the community or
10 themselves need special care, including secure settings.
11 Such services as detention, long-term incarceration, or
12 residential treatment are too costly to provide in each
13 community and should be coordinated and provided on a
14 regional or Statewide basis.
15 (6) The roles of State and local government in
16 creating and maintaining services to youth in the
17 juvenile justice system should be clearly defined. The
18 role of the State is to fund services, set standards of
19 care, train service providers, and monitor the
20 integration and coordination of services. The role of
21 local government should be to oversee the provision of
22 services.
23 (b) Each county or circuit participating in the pilot
24 program must create a local plan demonstrating how it will
25 reduce the county or circuit's utilization of secure
26 confinement of juvenile offenders in the Illinois Department
27 of Corrections or county detention centers by the creation or
28 expansion of individualized services or programs that may
29 include but are not limited to the following:
30 (1) Assessment and evaluation services to provide
31 the juvenile justice system with accurate individualized
32 case information on each juvenile offender including
33 mental health, substance abuse, educational, and family
34 information;
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1 (2) Direct services to individual juvenile
2 offenders including educational, vocational, mental
3 health, substance abuse, supervision, and service
4 coordination; and
5 (3) Programs that seek to restore the offender to
6 the community, such as victim offender panels, teen
7 courts, competency building, enhanced accountability
8 measures, restitution, and community service.
9 The local plan must be directed in such a manner as to
10 emphasize an individualized approach to providing services to
11 juvenile offenders in an integrated community based system
12 including probation as the broker of services. The plan must
13 also detail the reduction in utilization of secure
14 confinement.
15 The local plan shall be limited to services and shall not
16 include costs for:
17 (i) capital expenditures;
18 (ii) renovations or remodeling;
19 (iii) personnel costs for probation.
20 The local plan shall be submitted to the Supreme Court
21 with each county's annual Probation plan.
22 (c) A county or group of counties may develop an
23 agreement with the Supreme Court to reduce their number of
24 commitments of juvenile offenders to the Department of
25 Corrections, and then use the savings to develop local
26 programming for youth who would otherwise have been committed
27 to the Department of Corrections. The county or group of
28 counties shall agree to limit their commitments to 75% of the
29 level of commitments from the average number of juvenile
30 commitments for the past 3 years, and will receive the
31 savings to redeploy for local programming for juveniles who
32 would otherwise be held in confinement. The agreement shall
33 set forth the following:
34 (1) a Statement of the number and type of juvenile
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1 offenders from the county who were held in secure
2 confinement by the Illinois Department of Corrections or
3 in county detention the previous year, and an explanation
4 of which, and how many, of these offenders might be
5 served through the proposed Redeploy Illinois Program for
6 which the funds shall be used;
7 (2) a Statement of the service needs of currently
8 confined juveniles;
9 (3) a Statement of the type of services and
10 programs to provide for the individual needs of the
11 juvenile offenders, and the research or evidence base
12 that qualifies those services and programs as proven or
13 promising practices.
14 (4) a budget indicating the costs of each service
15 or program to be funded under the plan;
16 (5) a summary of contracts and service agreements
17 indicating the treatment goals and number of juvenile
18 offenders to be served by each service provider; and
19 (6) a Statement indicating that the Redeploy
20 Illinois Program will not duplicate existing services and
21 programs. Funds for this plan shall not supplant existing
22 county funded programs.
23 (d) The Supreme Court shall forward Redeploy Illinois
24 Program allocations to the county treasurer as provided in
25 Section 15 of this Act. Each county shall receive, maintain,
26 and appropriate those funds in a separate line item account
27 of the probation department budget. In addition, the Supreme
28 Court shall, upon approval of the annual plan, forward 20% of
29 the approved Redeploy Illinois Program allocations to the
30 county treasurer to be deposited in the line item account.
31 Subsequent allocations shall be made to the county on a
32 monthly basis. It shall be the responsibility of the county
33 through the probation budget and in accordance with county
34 policy and procedure to make payments for the Redeploy
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1 Illinois Program. At the end of the State of Illinois fiscal
2 year, the county shall promptly return any uncommitted and
3 unused funds from this account.
4 (e) The Supreme Court shall be responsible for the
5 following:
6 (1) Reviewing each Redeploy Illinois Program plan
7 for compliance with standards established for such plans.
8 A plan may be approved as submitted, approved with
9 modifications, or rejected. No plan shall be considered
10 for approval if the circuit or county is not in full
11 compliance with all regulations, standards and guidelines
12 pertaining to the delivery of basic probation services as
13 established by the Supreme Court.
14 (2) Monitoring on a continual basis and evaluating
15 annually both the program and its fiscal activities in
16 all counties receiving an allocation under the Redeploy
17 Illinois Program. Any program or service that has not met
18 the goals and objectives of its contract or service
19 agreement shall be subject to denial for funding in
20 subsequent years. The Supreme Court shall evaluate the
21 effectiveness of the Redeploy Illinois Program in each
22 circuit or county. In determining the future funding for
23 the Redeploy Illinois Program under this Act, the
24 evaluation shall include, as a primary indicator of
25 success, a decreased number of confinement days for the
26 county's juvenile offenders.
27 (f) Any Redeploy Illinois Program allocations not
28 applied for and approved by the Supreme Court shall be
29 available for redistribution to approved plans for the
30 remainder of that fiscal year. Any county that invests local
31 moneys in the Redeploy Illinois Program shall be given first
32 consideration for any redistribution of allocations.