Participants who successfully complete the initial thirty days of the program without a failed test or missed test appointment may earn a reduction of testing to once per week. Participants who fail tests are subject to a series of graduated sanctions ranging from drug abuse assessment and treatment referral to revocation of bond or probation and return to jail. In addition to providing drug and alcohol testing for Community Corrections jail diversion programs, the ZAPP Program provides drug and alcohol testing services for the local District Courts, the Family Court Juvenile Division, the Family Independence Agency and their contracted service providers, the Countywide Domestic Violence Project, and the Prosecutor s Juvenile Diversion Project. The ZAPP Program utilizes non-instrument or instant drug tests that allow a test result to be interpreted in minutes and the sanction for a failed test to be immediate. Clients have less than 24 hours to report for testing once they are selected.
Random testing is available once per week, twice per week, or once per month.
Electronic Monitoring is primarily used as an alternative to incarceration for certain well-screened offenders. Tether is used throughout the United States and overseas as states and other countries are faced with the same dilemma, hopelessly overcrowded jails and prisons. After thoroughly researching various equipment options on the market, B.I. Inc., located in Boulder, CO., was chosen as the producer of the EMS equipment. The focus of the system is an enforced curfew of the offender. Curfew hours are programmed in at the central computer site.