Ohio Administrative Code › Title 5120:1 - Division of Parole and Community Services › Chapter 5120:1-5 - Community Based Corrections Programs › Section 5120:1-5-01 - Glossary of terms

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) "Local corrections planning board": A
			 board established by resolution of the board of county commissioners of each
			 county, pursuant to section
			 5149.34
			 of the Revised Code for the purpose of developing, implementing and operating a
			 continuum of community control sanctions as defined by paragraph (E) of this
			 rule.
(B) "Joint county corrections
			 planning board": The board established by two or more counties with local
			 corrections planning boards, as defined by paragraph (A) of this rule, pursuant
			 to section
			 5149.35
			 of the Revised Code for the purpose of developing, implementing and operating a
			 continuum of community control sanctions as defined by paragraph (E) of this
			 rule.
(C) "Comprehensive plan": The
			 working document developed by the local corrections planning board, as defined
			 by paragraph (A) of this rule, or joint county corrections planning board, as
			 defined by paragraph (B) of this rule, outlining the direction of the
			 jurisdiction's community corrections initiatives. The plan is designed to unify
			 and/ or coordinate corrections services in the county or a group of counties
			 and to reduce the number of persons committed from a county to state penal
			 institutions and to county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county or
			 multicounty-municipal jails or workhouses.
(D) "Local corrections agencies": A county,
			 multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, multicounty-municipal
			 
								jail or
			 
								workhouse or other jurisdictional facility (local
			 jails or workhouses), or a probation department,
			 which is responsible for developing, implementing and operating a continuum of
			 community control sanctions, as defined by paragraph (E) of this rule, which is
			 included in a comprehensive plan, as defined by paragraph (C) of this rule,
			 and/or grant application submitted pursuant to rule
			 5120:1-5-03
			 of the Administrative Code.
(E)
			 "Community control sanctions": Includes but is not limited to day reporting,
			 electronic monitored house arrest, electronic monitoring without house arrest,
			 house arrest without electronic monitoring, jail case management, community
			 service, drug treatment programs, intensive supervision, basic supervision,
			 monitored time, drug and alcohol use monitoring, curfew term, victim offender
			 mediation, and placement in a halfway house, community-based correctional
			 facility or the county jail or workhouse and other appropriate
			 programs.
(F) "Sanction": A
			 judicial or probation officer response levied or
			 imposed upon an eligible offender, as defined by paragraph (G) of this rule, as
			 a result of criminal behavior or violations of community control sanctions
			 requirements.
(G) "Eligible
			 offender": An individual convicted of an offense for which community control
			 sanctions are authorized pursuant to sections
			 2929.15
			 to
			 2929.18
			 of the Revised Code.
(H)
			 "Detainee": An individual charged with and/or convicted of an offense that has
			 not been formally adjudicated. Such "detained" individuals include, but are not
			 limited to: unsentenced felony offenders, unsentenced misdemeanants, probation
			 and/or parole violators awaiting disposition,  or
			 individuals awaiting disposition of their charge.
(I) "Case record": A file, or electronic
			 version of a file, established for each offender and maintained by the local
			 corrections agency which includes, but is not limited to: the journal entry
			 placing the offender into a community control sanction, conditions of
			 supervision, supervision adjustment information, supervision contacts, and
			 significant areas of concern (e.g., chemically dependent, mental health
			 problems, sex offender, or other pertinent information).
(J) "Recidivism rate": An indicator to
			 evaluate and measure the effectiveness of a community control sanction in
			 keeping eligible offenders as defined by paragraph (G) of this rule, out of
			 state penal institutions.
(K)
			 "Continuation funding": A level of funding that will maintain existing program
			 operations.
(L) "Expansion
			 funding": A level of funding that will increase program operations for the
			 purpose of diverting additional offenders.
(M) "Evidence-based": Practices that are
			 consistent with research for the purpose of operating effective correctional
			 programs.
(N) "ACA": The American
			 correctional association.