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Pretrial supervision and electronic monitoring reports show steady caseloads, device alerts and some malfunctions
Summary
Court services staff reported first-quarter 2025 pretrial and electronic-monitoring metrics that were similar to prior quarters, noted device alerts and malfunctions, and reviewed home detention, jail treatment and reentry outcomes; staff described program numbers and said some findings are technical reporting requirements.
Court services staff reported that Morgan County's first-quarter 2025 pretrial caseloads and electronic monitoring metrics were similar to last year, and they documented device alerts and technical malfunctions that must be reported to the state.
The county reported 96 pretrial risk assessments in the first quarter of 2025, compared with 98 in the same quarter last year, and 145 people active on pretrial supervision at quarter's end (140 at the end of the comparable quarter), staff said. The county reported 57 people placed on supervision during the quarter, down from 61 the previous quarter; case closures numbered 53. The reported success rate for the quarter was 57 percent, compared with 55 percent the prior quarter.
Staff also reported electronic-monitoring data and device events required for state reporting. As presented, the county logged false-location alerts and device malfunctions; the staff presentation listed 26 false-location alerts for adults, 1 for juveniles, and 3 adult device malfunctions for the quarter. Staff described these as technical incidents that require explanation in the county's report to the state.
Adult community corrections and home-detention figures for the quarter were included in the report. Staff said home-detention referrals received totaled 31 for the quarter, with 48 active on supervision; total successful completions were reported at 16 and unsuccessful completions at 2. The report listed probation cases and application-processing metrics (applications received 61, processed 49, eligible 31, ineligible 29) as reported to the board.
Sanctions, incentives and evidence-based interventions were discussed as program metrics: staff reported that interventions were used more often than court filings (22 times more likely to use sanctions rather than file with the court in the period described), a random drug-screen program success rate of 95 percent, and other evidence-based measures (for example, MRT referrals and relapse-prevention sessions).
Dave Rogers, who presented on jail-treatment programming, said the program had low enrollment for the quarter (three people actively enrolled in the reported period) and a 50 percent success rate in the quarter, which he said was skewed by small sample size. He reported 50 requests for applications, 31 processed applications and 19 returned applications. He also said the local partnership with Centerstone had become more consistent this quarter and that MRT work was restarting within the program.
Staff noted state opioid-program funds and local supplements: the commissioners previously allocated $87,000 over the past two years from opioid program funds to supplement county treatment services, staff said. Board members did not take formal action on program changes during the meeting.
