Current through P.L. 171-2024
Section 35-38-2.5-10 - Violation of home detention; violent offender status; contract agencies(a) Each probation department or community corrections program shall establish written criteria and procedures for determining whether an offender or alleged offender that the department or program supervises on home detention qualifies as a violent offender.(b) A probation department or community corrections program shall use the criteria and procedures established under subsection (a) to establish a record keeping system that allows the department or program to quickly determine whether an offender or alleged offender who violates the terms of a home detention order is a violent offender.(c) A probation department or a community corrections program charged by a court with supervision of offenders and alleged offenders ordered to undergo home detention shall provide all law enforcement agencies (including any contract agencies) having jurisdiction in the place where the probation department or a community corrections program is located with a list of offenders and alleged offenders under home detention supervised by the probation department or the community corrections program. The list must include the following information about each offender and alleged offender:(1) The offender's name, any known aliases, and the location of the offender's home detention.(2) The crime for which the offender was convicted.(3) The date the offender's home detention expires.(4) The name, address, and telephone number of the offender's supervising probation or community corrections program officer for home detention.(5) An indication of whether the offender or alleged offender is a violent offender.(d) Except as provided under section 6(1) of this chapter, a probation department or community corrections program charged by a court with supervision of offenders and alleged offenders ordered to undergo home detention shall, at the beginning of a period of home detention, set the monitoring device and surveillance equipment to minimize the possibility that the offender or alleged offender can enter another residence or structure without a violation.(e) A probation department or community corrections program charged by a court with supervision of offenders and alleged offenders ordered to undergo home detention shall maintain or contract with a contract agency to maintain constant supervision of each offender and alleged offender in accordance with IC 35-38-2.7.(f) A probation department or community corrections program may contract with a contract agency under subsection (e) only if the contract agency can comply with the requirements described in IC 35-38-2.7.Amended by P.L. 84-2022,SEC. 14, eff. 7/1/2022.As added by P.L. 98-1988, SEC.6. Amended by P.L. 137-2001, SEC.7; P.L. 1-2002, SEC.146; P.L. 31-2005, SEC.5.