AB401: Bill Text

AB401,,14 (h) “Regional office” means an adult probation and parole office that supervises individuals who reside under the office’s jurisdiction who are on probation, parole, or extended supervision.

AB401,,15 (2) Grants. The department shall award grants to regional offices for improving community supervision outcomes. The amount that each regional office receives is based on the calculations under sub. (7).

AB401,,16 (3) Allocation of grant moneys received. (a) A regional office may use up to 15 percent of the funds awarded under this section for administrative and data-collection purposes that are related to this section.

AB401,,17 (b) A regional office shall use at least 85 percent of funds awarded under this section to improve supervision and rehabilitative services for individuals on probation, parole, or extended supervision in its region. The services may include any services, including any of the following:

AB401,,18 1. Implementing and expanding evidence-based practices for risk and needs assessments for individualized programming.

AB401,,19 2. Implementing and expanding intermediate sanctions that include, but are not limited to, mandatory community service, home detention, day reporting, restorative justice programs, and work furlough programs.

AB401,,20 3. Expanding the availability of evidence-based practices for rehabilitation programs including, but not limited to, drug and alcohol treatment, mental health treatment, anger management, cognitive behavior programs, and vocational training and employment services.

AB401,,21 4. Hiring additional officers, contractors, or other personnel to implement evidence-based practices for rehabilitative and vocational programming.

AB401,,22 5. Purchasing and adopting new technologies or equipment that are relevant and enhancing to the task of supervision, rehabilitation, or vocational training.

AB401,,23 6. Evaluating the effectiveness of rehabilitation and supervision programs and ensuring program fidelity.

AB401,,24 (4) Oversight and reporting. (a) The department shall provide oversight of the grant moneys awarded to ensure that the disbursed funds are being used in accordance with the grant program under this section. The department shall maintain an accounting of all moneys awarded under this section.

AB401,,25 (b) Beginning no later than the first day of the 19th month beginning after the effective date of this paragraph .... [LRB inserts date], and on each July 1 thereafter, the department shall work with regional offices to prepare and submit to the joint committee on finance a comprehensive, publicly available report on the implementation of the grant program under this section. The report shall include at the minimum all the following information:

AB401,,26 1. The effectiveness of the grant payments based on the reports of outcome-based measures under sub. (5).

AB401,,27 2. Any recommendations regarding resource allocations or additional collaboration with other state, regional, or local entities or other regions for improvements to the grant program under this section.

AB401,,28 (5) Outcome-based measures. The department shall develop, track, and, in a publicly available report, publish the outcome-based measures for each fiscal year, including all of the following:

AB401,,29 (a) The employment rate and average length of employment for individuals on probation, parole, or extended supervision in each region and statewide.

AB401,,30 (b) The percentage of individuals on probation, parole, or extended supervision who are convicted of a new crime while on that supervised status for each region and statewide and whether the individuals who are convicted are employed or not.

AB401,,31 (c) The number and percentage of individuals on probation, parole, or extended supervision who successfully complete their period of supervised status for each region and statewide and whether the individuals who complete their period are employed or not.

AB401,,32 (d) The number and types of programs for individuals on probation, parole, or extended supervision that were created, modified, replaced, or eliminated in each region.

AB401,,33 (e) An estimate of any savings to the state as a result of reduced correctional costs due to lower crime rates among individuals on probation, parole, or extended supervision, using the marginal cost of incarceration and the number of individuals convicted of a new crime while on supervised status.

AB401,,34 (6) Data collection requirements. (a) The department shall calculate for each region and statewide the baseline employment rates for individuals on probation, for individuals on parole, and for individuals on extended supervision.

AB401,,35 (b) On July 1 of each fiscal year, the department shall calculate for each region and statewide the employment rates for the preceding fiscal year for individuals on probation, for individuals on parole, and for individuals on extended supervision.

AB401,,36 (7) Distributing incentive grants for performance. The department shall calculate the amount that each regional office is eligible to receive in the current fiscal year as a grant under this section for increasing probation, parole, and extended supervision employment rates for its region in the immediate past fiscal year as follows:

AB401,,37 (a) Add the employment rates for individuals on probation, individuals on parole, and individuals on extended supervision for the region as determined under sub. (6) (b).

AB401,,38 (b) Subtract from the sum under par. (a) the sum of the baseline employment rates for the region for individuals on probation, individuals on parole, and individuals on extended supervision determined under sub. (6) (a).

AB401,,39 (c) 1. If the difference determined under par. (b) is positive, multiply the difference by the total number of individuals on probation, parole, and extended supervision in the region. Multiply that product by $2,500 to determine the amount that the regional office is eligible to receive under this section in the current fiscal year.

AB401,,40 2. If the difference determined under par. (b) is negative, the regional office is not eligible for a grant under this section in the current fiscal year.

AB401,,41 (d) If the moneys available for grants under this section in a fiscal year are insufficient to pay all amounts determined under par. (c) 1., the department shall establish a system to prorate the grants.

AB401,,42 (e) If the department determines that the data required under sub. (6) are not of sufficient quality or are not the correct type, the department shall use the best available data to estimate probation, parole, and extended supervision employment rates using a method that is as consistent with that described in sub. (6) as is reasonably possible.

AB401,,43 (f) Notwithstanding par. (c) 1., no regional office may be awarded a grant under this section if, in the previous fiscal year, its region had an increase in revocations based on the commission of new crimes.

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