Lake County Law & Judicial Committee met Oct. 27.
Here is the agenda provided by the committee:
1. Call to Order
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Addenda to the Agenda
4. Public Comment
5. Chair's Remarks
6. Old Business
7. New Business
CONSENT AGENDA (Items 7.1 - 7.3)
7.1 20-1539
Minutes for October 6, 2020.
PUBLIC DEFENDER
7.2 20-1535
Report from Joy Gossman, Public Defender, for the month of September 2020.
CIRCUIT COURT CLERK
7.3 20-1531
Report from Erin Cartwright Weinstein, Clerk of the Circuit Court, for the month of September 2020.
REGULAR AGENDA
CIRCUIT COURT CLERK
7.4 20-1534
Joint resolution ratifying a contract and approving a contract modification with MTG Management Consultants, LLC, Seattle, Washington, to procure Phase Two project management services to oversee implementation of the Circuit Clerk’s Record Digitization Initiative in the amount of $135,120, and emergency appropriate $91,960 in the Document Storage Fund.
· The Lake County Board awarded a contract for Record Digitization Services for the Office of the Circuit Clerk at their July 14, 2020 meeting.
· The Circuit Clerk entered into a departmental agreement with MTG Management Consultants in the amount of $43,160 to provide evaluation and quality assurance assistance services to support the digitization of paper and microfilm records maintained by the Circuit Clerk.
· A need has been identified for project management services to oversee the implementation and coordinate the integration with the Integrated Case Management System (ICMS) for the Lake County Justice Agencies in the amount of $91,960.
· This contract modification will provide for 24 months of support to prepare a project repository and establish integrations with the ICMS.
· Pursuant to Article 6, Section 102, the Purchasing Agent convened an ad hoc review group that approved bid exemption on the basis that there exists a long standing, successful relationship for professional services, and the knowledge gained through this relationship adds value integral to the services provided.
COURT ADMINISTRATION
7.5 20-1536
Joint resolution authorizing a one-year contract with AutoMon LLC, Scottsdale, Arizona to provide software maintenance and service to Lake County Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court in an estimated annual amount of $94,464.78.
· Lake County Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court has contracted with AutoMon LLC for software license and maintenance for various case management modules associated with specialty courts since 2004.
· Currently the modules have been contracted individually and staff has sought to bundle all of the software license and maintenance agreements into one comprehensive document with for a consistent term and renewal rates.
· This resolution authorizes agreement with AutoMon LLC, to provide software
license and maintenance services to Lake County for one year in the estimated annual amount of $94,464.78 with options to renew for two additional one-year periods and increases capped at five percent.
· Pursuant to Article Six, Section 102, the Purchasing Agent has approved the bid exemption on the basis of an existing long-standing successful relationship for services, and the knowledge gained through this relationship adds value integral to the services provided.
SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
7.6 20-1523
Joint resolution approving an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) for renewed contractual police services between the Lake County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) and the Village of Deer Park (Deer Park) from January 1, 2021, to December 31, 2023, in the amount of $4,091,371.39.
· The LCSO has provided police services to Deer Park for nine years.
· Deer Park and the LCSO have agreed on terms to continue the police services contract for an additional three-year period from January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2023.
· The contract includes a continuation of current services, which includes three, eight and a half (8.5) hour shifts per day for the residential areas (24 hours a day seven days a week coverage) and one, 8.5 hour shift per day, from 2:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. for commercial areas (totaling 34 hours per day or 12,410 hours per year.
· The State’s Attorney’s Office and the Lake County Risk Department have reviewed and approved this renewal contract.
· Deer Park will reimburse 100 percent of the cost of the four contract deputy positions for all three years.
7.7 20-1393
Joint resolution authorizing, acceptance of an award with the Illinois Department of Transportation for a Sustained Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) grant in the amount of $213,365.48 for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021.
· The Lake County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) has applied for and been awarded STEP grants since 2013.
· LCSO has applied and was accepted for a FY 2021 Illinois Department of Transportation STEP grant in the amount of $213,365.48. The grant period is from October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.
· The grant reimburses the deputies overtime wage costs and indirect costs on direct salary and wage excluding fringe.
· The main objective of the grant is to conduct specific traffic enforcement details that focus on speeding enforcement, distracted driving enforcement, impaired driving enforcement and child passenger safety campaigns that will make the roadways safer.
· LCSO will conduct six mandatory enforcement campaigns and all four optional enforcement campaigns.
7.8 20-1394
Joint resolution authorizing, acceptance of an award with the Illinois Department of Transportation for a Local Alcohol Program (LAP) grant in the amount of $25,803.95 for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021.
· The Lake County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) has applied for and been awarded the Local Alcohol Program (LAP) Grant.
· This grant will allow for one deputy who is certified as a Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) to provide training after normal business hours to police officers, Judges, Village Prosecutors and Assistant State’s Attorneys on Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST) refresher courses, Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) courses and DRE courses. The grant period is from October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.
· This grant reimburses the deputy’s overtime wage costs and indirect costs on direct salary and wage excluding fringe and will reimburse course and travel expenses for one deputy’s recertification costs as a DRE.
7.9 20-1395
Joint resolution accepting the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) grant from the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $294,000.
· In May of 2020, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) applied for membership and funding of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) through the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
· The LCSO received notification on September 3, 2020, that it had been awarded $294,000.00. Grant funds will be primarily used to defray the cost of overtime specifically for HIDTA related investigations and for investigative supplies necessary for HIDTA investigations.
· The mission of the HIDTA Program is to enhance and coordinate America’s drug-control efforts among local, state and Federal law enforcement agencies in order to eliminate or reduce drug trafficking and its harmful consequences in critical regions of the United States.
STATE'S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
7.10 20-1530
Joint resolution authorizing the acceptance of a Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program: Support for Mental Health Centers grant awarded to the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office (LCSAO) by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), for a 23-hour Crisis Triage Stabilization Center (Center), including an emergency appropriation of $750,000 in federal funds.
· The LCSAO has been awarded a Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program: Support of Mental Health Centers grant through the U.S. DOJ, OJP, BJA for a Crisis Triage Stabilization Center. It is a joint project between the LCSAO and Nicasa Behavioral Health Services, NFP (Nicasa),
· The 23-hour premier Center is a cross-system partnership between the LCSAO, Nicasa, Lake County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO), 46 municipal police agencies, and behavioral health treatment and service providers.
· Grant funds will provide prearrest diversion to include a free-standing facility for police drop-off of low-level offenders experiencing mental illness (MI) or mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse (CMISA) to be screened, assessed, and receive referrals to treatment and services. The Center will provide an additional safe resource rather than the alternative, transport of these individuals to jail or an Emergency Department.
· The Lake County Opioid Initiative (LCOI), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose Board approved purchasing the Center’s physical building from cash donations and local grant funds, is part of this cross-system collaboration.
· This Project will improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with MI or CMISA who come into contact with law enforcement. It will reduce recidivism by addressing individuals’ criminogenic needs and deflect them from further intrusion into the criminal justice system.
· The grant term is for three years, starting October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2023.
· During the planning phase, Lake County will tour and network with an existing crisis/triage facility, complete policies and protocols, memorandum of understandings, train law enforcement officers on the center’s drop-off process, and purchase the building (leveraging previous cash donations and other grant funds). During implementation, the grant will fund the project coordinator, clinical director, and counselor salaries.
· This cross-system planning collaboration to open the crisis triage center resulted from examining existing county resources and gaps. Over 70 community members and stakeholders participated in a crisis center visioning session in April 2019. Thereafter, a core team worked on the center’s sustainability to identify three-year operational costs and to plan for funding after grant periods. The LCOI Board and its Sustainability Sub-Committee will oversee funding the Center after the grant period.
· The Center will leverage existing Lake County treatment and service provider resources, peer recovery specialists, crisis hotline, LCSO and Lake County Health Department Crisis Outreach and Support Team (COAST) and LCSO law enforcement Crisis Intervention Team training.
· Program funding of $1,057,333 includes $750,000 of federal grant funding for project director, project coordinator, clinical director, and counselor personnel expenses, and other project expenses including travel, supplies and other costs.
· Additional in-kind match funding of $307,333 includes previous cash donations and leveraging of other non-federally funded staff, including the Safety and Justice High-Utilizer MacArthur Foundation grant funded staff and partner agency non-federally funded staff. No new county funds are required.
7.11 20-1532
Joint resolution authorizing the acceptance of a Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office (LCSA) Intelligence Driven Prosecution (IDP) - Hot Spot Prosecution program, through an Innovative Prosecution Solutions (IPS) for Combating Violent Crime grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), including an emergency appropriation of $305,000 in federal funds, if awarded.
· The LCSAO has applied for an (IPS) for Combating Violent Crime grant through the U.S. DOJ, OJP, BJA.
· The grant term is for two years, starting October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2022.
· The purpose of the IPS for Combating Violent Crime Program is to provide local prosecutors with resources to reduce crime and increase public safety.
· This BJA funding that supports prosecutors’ offices to reduce caseloads, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of prosecutors’ processes and procedures, and provide modern technology to better manage and track cases.
· The IDP Lines of Effort are: Priority Offender Prosecution, Hot Spot Prosecution and Opioid Epidemic.
· Funding will be used for a security measure known as the ShotSpotter Gunfire Location, Alert and Analysis Service to be installed in three geographic areas in Lake County, based on crime analysis, all having been identified as hot spots, where there has been a significant spike in firearm incidents.
· The ShotSpotter tool will help to reduce gun-related crimes, assist in arrest, assist in the confiscation of weapons, and can also be used as evidence in court and assist in the prosecution and conviction of criminals where the system is deployed.
· Program funding of $305,000 in federal funds includes ShotSpotter deployment in three Lake County locations for two years each and ShotSpotter expert witness testimony and travel costs for both years. No county funds are required.
7.12 20-1533
Joint resolution authorizing the acceptance of a Victim of Crime Act (VOCA) grant from the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) to the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office (LCSAO) for a Multi-Victimization Services program, including an emergency appropriation of $137,848 in federal funds, if awarded.
· The LCSAO has applied for a VOCA grant through the (ICJIA).
· The grant term is for one year, starting December 1, 2020 through November 30, 2021. Additional funding to support the program for up to an additional 24 months may be awarded after the initial funding period.
· The ICJIA funding addresses the needs of victims who have experienced multiple types of crime during their lifetime, as experiencing multiple types of crime may result in complex trauma and mental health symptoms that differ from those who experience one type of crime.
· The LCSAO currently receives VOCA grant funding from ICJIA to support two Victim/Witness Coordinator positions in the office. The Victim/Witness Coordinators work with the victims throughout the criminal justice process by providing them with advocacy, on-going support and an understanding of the criminal court process.
· This VOCA Multi-Victimization grant funded program is an expansion on the services that the Victim/Witness Coordinators currently provide. Through this grant funding, trauma-informed counseling services will be offered to violent crime victims who self-report as having experienced multi-victimization, also known as poly-victims.
· Program funding of $172,623 includes $137,848 of federal grant funding (for salary and benefits for a licensed clinical therapist, who also has experience working with victims of crime, a laptop and a program brochure) and in-kind match funding of $34,825 as budgeted in the LCSAO’s budget. No new county funds are required.
8. Executive Session
9. Public Comment
10. County Administrator's Report
11. Members' Remarks
12. Adjournment
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