Indiana

Technical Assistance:

Indiana Board of Parole (October 2001): Provided staff and consultants to discuss emerging sex offender management practices with Parole Board members.

Project Pro, Valparaiso, Indiana (August 1998): CSOM provided support to enable two staff to attend the CSOM training at the 1998 Summer APPA Training Institute.

Training:

Delivered a two-day training session on sex offender management to the Indiana Department of Correction for probation and parole staff, case managers, treatment providers, prosecutors, victim advocates, judges, and police officers in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 2001 (105 participants).

Provided a consultant to conduct a two-day training on sex offender management at the request of the Indiana Department of Correction-Parole Services for probation, parole, and other law enforcement representatives, September 2000 (50 participants).

OJP Grant Sites:

2006: The goal for the state of Indiana is to improve public safety through the management and monitoring of adult and juvenile sex offenders and prevent further victimization while an offender is on probation, parole, or community corrections throughout the state. Indiana University will work with the multi-disciplinary task team throughout the entire process. The university will assist the DOC in developing a list of competencies that are needed for each officer, whether parole, probation, or community corrections, to manage and supervise a sex offender while in the community. Starting in January 2006, Indiana will launch a public website that builds upon an already existing site by adding GIS mapping of offender location in relation to addresses, schools, parks, and daycares; and enhanced criminal information on offenders. The Indiana Department of Correction will conduct a training that will gather information to construct a baseline knowledge of the skills of community supervision officers charged with supervising sex offenders. The preliminary objective of the training is to identify various competencies of each participant such as, how to provide supervision that is multidisciplinary and collaborate with multiple agencies, how to regularly update the offenders relapse prevention plan and how to identify what community services are available for these offenders.

2002: Allen County, Indiana was awarded a grant to build on the experience of a reentry court by establishing a sex offender reentry program to transition offenders returning to the community from the Indiana Department of Correction Prison Facilities. The program served those ordered or paroled to home detention and those sentenced to probation for a sex offense. Approximately 100 offenders were served through the grant over the first 12 months (27 sex offenders were on home detention; 42 offenders were projected for release from state prison by year's end; all but one of these offenders were male). Grant funds were used to hire a full-time case manager, support a full-time victim advocate, acquire two assessment instruments (the Sexual Violence Risk-20 and the Millon Personality Profile), acquire geographic tracking software, conduct local training, and purchase 80 electronic monitoring units.