Kankakee County Board, IL Criminal Justice Committee Meetings, 15 May 2019

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Kankakee County Criminal Justice Meeting 5/15/2019 7:30 AM

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We'll start with roll call, please.

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Mr. Hess Rosie.

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Bern mr. leer mr. legette mr. Altaf mr. Snipes, miss Dunbar mr. Ritter Miss Parker mr. Fairfield, miss Dirk Erica mr. eka mr. Smith mr. Coates hello, mr. wheeler, mr. C Roy. We have a quorum. I have.

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Not received anything for public comment. Is there any public comment at this time? Any public comment move on to the approval of minutes for April 10th 2019, take promotion, mister altough, second, miss Parcher, all in favor, say aye opposed same sign. Motion carries judge Cramer this morning circuit clerk's office. In your package they have a copy of the circuit. Clerk's report. Take the motion to approve mr. Byrne second by mr. altough good morning sandy morning,.

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Other than the big reports, the normal one, as usual, the Harris open, inventory analysis, we've turned over 1500 cases so far this year,.

C

For the recovery report, I wanted to note, since I wasn't here last month that I believe we were like ahead $57,000 in collections for March, and that was because of the federal slowdown the month or so before, and so that's why it went from ninety thousand to two hundred and thirty-eight, just like everybody started pouring in with their money after the with their income tax money themselves.

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So when I was the state's attorney collection court call, they brought in eighteen thousand, seven hundred in April, so we're collecting. But all these totals on this report eventually reflects you know in the big report by the time.

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We have a motion in a second all in favor, say: aye opposed same sign. Motion carries yeah.

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So the e-filing testing is still happening. We have set it up in all the case, types for civil and Paula, one of my employees is working between Tyler and court view trying to make sure that the mapping is all correct and that the cases transfer over. So when she does, when we do our filing it'll all come out correctly with the fees attached and all the doctor codes blend together and it's a complicated process. So I'm not sure you know, one person did their update. So then the next I mean company.

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So now the next company is going back to respond to those issues, so we're still plugging along I'm, hoping that we will be ready to be integrated by the time. The July, 1st fees, change and things like that. Tyler has responded to the circuit clerk's and the appellate and Supreme Court clerks in creating an e file user group just for Illinois.

C

So last week they were here. They've they've done a tour of Illinois, starting at the appellate court in Springfield and the Supreme Court in Springfield, and then they went to McLean County and on Tuesday they were in Kankakee Wednesday. They went to DeKalb Thursday and McHenry Friday and they are going to see what issues we are all having and once they were there and saw what we've been going through this whole year and a half with this system.

C

They understood in there into a lot of our pleas as far as what things we need and I told them numerous times how much I appreciated them being there, because this was the hand-holding that we really needed at the beginning and not you know a year and a half later so they're gonna we're having another conference, call on Friday to see how that all went with the different counties and the Supreme Court, and then we're going to figure out what other counties we want to incorporate into this and then just keep building on it so that they can visit.

C

Because there's just been there's just too many issues trying to get all the little the granular details. That's the hard part. You know the big picture makes it all easy, but it's all the little fine details and all the little so it's been it's been a complicated process. I wanted to talk to our office is having a hard hard time, keeping up with everything that we've got going on.

C

I know that I have had conversations with probation and State's Attorney's Office, because our office isn't able to get their work completed so that the other offices can do their work. So it's a hard pill to swallow, but we're doing the best we can one of the clerk's. When I talked to her about her situation. You know she said well I think our courtroom has more cases than the like tight courtroom. You know in the courthouse, so I thought well, I'll, look into that.

C

So all I did is I ran reports on just what the court called required.

C

You know or what the court calendar for each judge and I went by judge I didn't go by courtroom necessarily and in January we did over ten thousand five hundred cases in court, and we have you know anywhere from three to five people off every day, either part of the day or the whole day, so we're working with less than 30 people trying to get all this work done from taking the paperwork in to getting it into court, getting it scheduled in the computer, doing all the Disco's getting the money paid back out to the people that have posted bond and their cases were dismissed and they want their bond money back or you know, I mean it's just been.

C

It's we're just conducting triage every day and we've worked ten Saturdays since January and I'm only allowing four hours every Saturday we have anywhere between 15 8 and 15 people that come in and they're asking to come in. It's not a requirement. It's a volunteer basis.

C

They look forward to that time because that's when they can get their work done.

C

Some of them do work on their lunch hour for four hours the preceding week, we've kind of worked it that way, so that it's easier to adjust payroll every week every payroll period, but I know that the different offices are now like probation and the state's attorney's office are talking amongst themselves to see what melds they have, because our notes are not in the computer, yet they're not available, because they're always they're always doing something so I.

C

Just you know time I know: I, went to his office and talked to him and Rhonda up in the state's attorney's office. So it's it's a chronic situation. The courts have to run, and it's just it's just been a struggle. We did promote the two people that, for my new two people, I promoted two people and then I started the hiring process and it's been a long and arduous process. We.

C

Finally we thought we were all good. Last Monday I know a week may 6th I hired my last one I had two people resigned in and amongst all of that, one went to the state's attorney's office. An 8-year employee in my office. Could go to the state's attorney's office and only concentrate on a smaller.

C

You know court situation and is making two or three dollars now or more, and that's that's what they would pay somebody if they walked him off the street, so I lost eight years of seniority and experience and then another 8-year employee left, because she had a degree and she decided to follow what her degree is. So then I had one clerk that I hired for the traffic court call with judge Dickinson. She lasted three weeks. It was too much so I mean I, just hired a new one.

C

This last May sixth fill that and then Monday I had a two-week employee. That just resigned because it was too much work for her to. She didn't realize that she was going to quit, but you know we have that much going on and that was in the main office. So I have another thing out again: the Train hire. So it's been. It's been a struggle.

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I just want to keep everybody away.

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Highly recommend you talk to HR.

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And you have the questions you're coming.

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You mr. chairman say, thank you in your mind. What do you think could expediate your process in your office? What what ideas do you have that might help? Besides, just throwing people, people at it, I mean and and then you get to the people part in having three to five people off every day. I mean I'm. Glad I don't have those headaches, because that is just and.

C

It could be anything from if.

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Somebody's the specific task that day and that doesn't get done that day because that's their specific time.

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Where everybody else picks up the slack and you know yeah.

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And then they don't do their specific tasks so I mean do you have any ideas for the committee that you might you know? Is there any way to get back on track to keep up with the court? Sir? Well.

C

You know it's, it's always the ebb and flow kind of a thing to you know like say we were to hire five more people just put it out there. Well then, all of a sudden, you know maybe we'll get caught up in a case filing situational catch up. Eventually, I'm praying that eventually this integration will help. Because what happens is we have to accept it in the Odyssey format? We they have to read through everything.

C

Now that's the other thing that's happened is before when people would come to the counter, they would give us the original stack but copies that they need. We would just file stamp, it all hand it all back and then take it back to our desk at our leisure. Well, now we have to really review everything they attach their jury demands and their entry of appearance and all these things that have to be separate entries. So we have to send it back.

C

So there's a lot of computer work that way. So that takes more time then, after it's all accepted, they keep a note spiral notebook in the write down what they've done. Then they go back and they print it all. So the other day judge Albrecht came in and there was a stack this big.

C

It was one motion, so it was over a thousand pages and they had to do it in parts, because even the copy machine was having a hard time keeping up so then, then you have to go back into court view open up court view enter the case, pick the docket code and then just sit there and scan it back in with a little desktop scanner. They they're phenomenal little scanners, but right you know, and and then in the middle of that you're answering the phone you're waiting on the counter.

C

One of the judges was a little miffed because an attorney came in and handed them the paperwork and said: well, here's my file stamp copy and it wasn't in our system yet and the clerk defended the main office and said we'll judge. What do you expect they're either on the phone or at the counter? That means they're not at their desk scanning the stuff in you know they work really hard and there's it's just a lot. So.

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It's more like the process is so lengthy for each become.

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That had come linked here and then in the U and they're putting more cases in the system, so the cases go faster than the process. Maybe the cases should slow down so the process.

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And then I've also had because the state's attorney you know they're rearranging their schedule every now and then, but this, the private attorneys I finally had one law office telling me that they've had to reschedule hearings, because we didn't get to our paperwork fast enough to get the notices out in the amount of time that they needed and so they've had to reschedule some new notices. And you know I mean it's: it's just the trickle-down effect, so I'm hoping after July the things will pan out a little better. But but.

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The fees will give further well.

C

No I didn't bring my thing: yeah, we're not sure how that's gonna work either it's hard to predict because they did increase the fees a little bit so like if a person gets a divorce or files, a civil lawsuit, it is more expensive, but we don't know with the fee waiver applications. We don't know where that's all going to sit.

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I think the collection thing I can I can tell you I, think it's gonna see, but.

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That's with criminal I'm I'm, talking civil, you.

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Have to pay your bill, I mean well yeah. Our population yeah.

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You know I dunno to that sorry.

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It's okay, oh I, did a just a couple months ago, I was going to bring to this committee for the year. I think I did 2018 just how many fee waiver applications were approved and there was about 750. So I don't know how many applied, but I know that and I I didn't run the stats to see if it was a civil criminal what what it was, but it was 750 cases that their fees were weighed completely. So.

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You know, and we still have to do the work. That's the problem, work.

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Thank You mr. chairman sandy, have you ever considered looking into possibly hiring part-time workers and have a flex schedule or empty end times where you do have a lot of work where you can bring in add it up? Maybe their retirees in the area that are looking for some part-time work. I mean everybody in the county is doing more with less I'm sure.

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Life we've talked about it, but I just.

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You know I'm pushing the I, know I'm pushing the envelope right now, they're pushing the line right now with all the comp time and paid time that we're doing right now. You know so, but I just want to keep you all aware of. What's going on.

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I had my whole talking point list and I guess: I left it at my office. So that's all I can think of right about now.

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Okay pinch-hitting for mr. Roe, who is going on a training session, is Jo in the package. A copy of the state state eternity reports take motion to combine the proof. Mr. Goff, second, by mr. snipe, good.

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Crimb is in the sunny state of Alabama learning. What he's learning.

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Yeah anyways to date, as you can see, our we've been guided 351 cases. Now those are felony cases. It doesn't show how many misdemeanors we are approving more misdemeanors at than we ever have I can attest with Sandy. The courthouse is a busy busy place.

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As you can see, most of the cases that we've been approving in felony wise come out to crimes against persons that could be activated. That could be felony domestic violence's things like that, but Jim's got us working at a record pace and we intend to keep working that way.

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Like I said it makes it very busy for everyone in that courthouse. You have any questions about anything. I can answer.

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Thank you next.

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Up public defender mr. Reyes take the motion to approve his report monthly report, mr. Lear second by mr. Bern, all in favor, say aye opposed same sign. Motion carries.

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We need to, we have a motion in a second for the state's attorneys reports. All in favor, say, aye opposed same sign. Motion carries.

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Okay in your fact that you have a copy of mr. Latham's report, take a motion to approve that mr. Dunbar sacked by mr. Jericho.

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Comments most anyone has any questions pretty much.

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Question and the motion, the second all in favor, say aye opposed same sign motion carries just.

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A couple things this month, I'm continue to watch. The feed collection is dropping fast drop. What would be normally eighty five hundred nine thousand dollars every month.

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Sometimes four thousand this month is 5700 which the piece of monthly, but now she has a huge impact. We operate full of offices.

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Like I said before we're feeling the impact of the bail, Reform, Act and I'll continue to watch that I think it's the last time. I hope this be bottom down with it.

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Normally we would like to collect 100 $120,000 will be lower quite a bit lower I'll keep you posted on the fees.

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To speak, to see his point that the issue she's having there, we need to do something to fix that. Absolutely it's! That system is very important to us being able to get there and you, the docket and almost real-time, or at least a week or two behind it's huge for us.

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If they had court what happened the court when they had enough time to have court if they have a warrant, we've reached out to people gone out in the community, attempting to contact people, send notices out and they're off probation. They got off month to go, but we didn't know it. They were violation, they senses time served or whatever it was, and we didn't know that so we're out in there going out trying to get them back in also.

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The other issue is saying, though this is getting orders done into our office, which almost should be done daily.

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We can't have people come into our office, saying I'm on probation and nobody's contacting, and when we start looking at this insanity, we talked several times about this for several issues. You know we didn't, we need to know what's happening and part of our job when we meet with them is didn't remind them. You have court first, either sitting across from you. They have a warrant for their arrest. We don't even know or can be filled up here, the mother earlier, so it is important. We have.

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That system is very important to us on a daily get in there.

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It's one basin.

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The other thing is legislation, we're continuing to watch, watch some bills, there's one with a lotta I think it's a lot of support. That's Senate bill 1302, which is gonna, require a tuple of engineering within 48 hours.

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That's the best. What's out there 40 hours and 24 hours, so I think this basically would require a holiday court. On occasion we can Saturday court on occasion someone's arrested Friday we brought in on the weekend in cases where there's holidays.

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Open up courthouse and there's more involved with this with the clerk Sheriff PD.

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So I'll keep you posted on that. The other thing, too, is a OIC. It's constantly working around the clock year round, I should say for our funding, restore full funding.

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Keep you post on where that goes, I, don't know if we're gonna be fully funded, but there's a potential for some supplemental funding this year. This destroyer for 19.

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And what they don't have it on the agenda?

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The sheriff has it on the agenda, which is great and radio I just wanted to bring it up today.

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Some sort of radios.

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Three different four different I: don't how that's all gonna work best when you bring it up, we have the numbers: I have the numbers. What a lot lower this year.

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Going forward, and also last is the drunk for graduation tomorrow. Ten-Thirty I know that might run into.

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Any questions really.

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I'll answer one of your questions: the radio purchase corner sheriff in your office together.

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Next year,.

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Obviously, promotion here started December 1st, we'll probably have to ward or something this year. So as far as down payments, you know, first date was on.

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Okay, I think he said all of them was there one more Mike, just those three departments.

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Any other questions comments.

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Next up is the Sheriff. You should have received the monthly report from the sheriff by email. Take a motion to approve pipe miss Dunbar second by mr. altough.

J

These microphones aren't very loud.

J

All right a couple things from the monthly report: our inmate population- if you, if you compare the two from 2018 to 2019, our local average- has increased by about 20 on average 15 to 25 more this year than there were last year of locals.

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Our on a county number also went up by about 40, so that obviously, is the difference in some of the money. You may see our revenue right now for fiscal year. 2019 is about a hundred and sixty thousand dollars more at this time this year than last year, and we're projected about to be approximately 1.5 million more, so our revenue would be close to about 12 million in the anticipated revenue. That's in our budget is 10 million, so I think those are positive things that will work out for everybody. So we're we're happy about that.

J

I hope everybody else as well. So when talking about erotic counties with our locals being so high, we had to make some just. We had to make some decisions that affect that our housing and one of the one of the decisions that we made because of the local numbers is. We have we contacted Cook County and we have sent all of our Cook County inmates back to Cook County, which all told there was fifteen or sixteen.

J

It wasn't a great number, but they are all back in Cook, County or other jails, possibly, but they are not in our facility. Our relationship with Cook County, however, is still good. They understood our plight from our local number, and so, if, if it ever comes down to it again, I believe that you know they would still be willing to to house individuals here, just because they have our location and how we how we handle their inmates, so Cook County is no longer in our custody.

J

At this point, they've been out since the first day they were all out was I. Believe Chad. You can correct me if I'm wrong, I think it was May, 2nd or so so we held on to a couple for some different reasons, so May 2nd I think they were out some questions on that.

J

Transports one glaring, a number that sticks out to me anyway, is the increase in medical transports. I. Think a lot of that has to do with the medical treatment that we are providing for ice detainees, so those have gone up. Obviously we don't pay for their medical treatment. I space for that I space for our officer salaries in I space for mileage, for transporting there too. So it's really no cost, but something that you should be aware of.

J

Obviously, the cost comes with the wear and tear on our vehicles, but most of those transports are local, so the concerning number we talked about before with do C and the releases last year they released 835 there's a good likelihood. That number will be more this year of releases back into our community, so you know we wonder why our local population continues to increase when people come back, unfortunately, not all of them come back and they end up back in our custody. Questions on the corrections say.

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Noticed there was some talk some time ago about this transition from prison back into street life, but I know that it had not been finalized. I know that Reverend Clark and some other folks was appointed, but I know where's that status or is it just a it hasn't been funded because that Bodleian.

J

Will be a critical if it's a state program not being funded, is probably a good guess. That's.

K

What I could have said and but it so it's a mostly the element because considering that some of these individuals have been lack of some time and coming back to transition, it's a different world than when they went in so election about answers result no job opportunities. No, nothing! So to me they know what they were accustomed to us. So they say: let's go back and do this no.

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Go back in just I need to get three meals a day, and you know.

J

So the what what you were talking about is that reentry program that the state passed I want to say back in 2006, 2007 and.

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Of where KC are all has evolved from because the goal was to be that transitioning area I think ultimately the goal was anybody getting released from do see. Who's gonna come back here to spend their last six months. The state was gonna pay for it, and then we had people here who would be able to work with them to get them the things they need to get them transition to back into what they've missed while they've been incarcerated and maybe help them with jobs, help them find a place to live.

J

We still do that renewed opportunity. Kc ro still does that now, but they do it mainly with locals. However, if somebody comes back into our community and needs help, I mean that's. What kc r does I mean they in KC are over the these people find these things. So it's out there, but it's just not. You know the state said: they're, not gonna pay to house their people.

J

Here we were gonna have to take them here and they weren't gonna pay for anything which is typical state of Illinois, and you know they never did that it didn't make any sense for us to do it. Eight.

K

Hundred and thirty thousand would raise my eyebrow because you wouldn't have the manpower to kind of transition. All those interviews, no matter how great your program, exact, no.

J

But to KC arrows credit, they do a great job in trying to find services, resources things for these individuals who who don't know where to go, look who don't have access to them and all that.

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L

You chairman the ice detainees, can you tell us what percentage are felons misdemeanors are illegals illegal aliens I mean they're, probably all illegal.

J

Specifically, no no.

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I do have some information that I'll share at the end, with some of that information that you have okay.

L

Cuz I know there's.

J

A lot of question out there about them and a lot of misinformation about yes, mr.

D

Wheeler, thank you with regard to meals, and things like that is there in the Illinois Jail standards were what we do with DHS. Is there any cork intake standards that we are mandated to meet absolutely I, put it on the tea there for you, what is that number I'm just curious I.

J

Actually have it on my list as well. Mr. chairman.

D

But talked before no.

J

We did not talk to him so, but you didn't put me on the spot like.

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Basically, we have gone through. We go through a do, see, inspection every year and we have gone through four iced inspection since 2016 and we have met or exceeded their standards of our food in every inspection. That has never been an issue. So what you were told yesterday was absolutely inaccurate and for those people sitting around me instead of using the initials BS I, think I used the word and I apologized those people who were sitting around me because it was absolutely BS what they were talking about yesterday. So thank you. There I apologized.

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Okay, sworn sworn say:.

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The number, obviously that we, you know, talked about- and you guys had a speaker yesterday- who talked about motorcycle safety and seeing motorcycles, which was a obviously there, was a passion there with with motorcycles, as some people have- and you know, fatals is what we keep an eye on and hope to reduce to zero ones too many a couple years ago, if you remember, we were at about 19 I, believe and that's countywide, that's not just County roads. It's countywide!

J

Last year we were at nine for the year, so we did reduce the number by ten and this year we're already at seven. So it's not a very good start to the year. Obviously you know we we identify problem areas and tend to direct our guys to kind of patrol that area a little bit more slow traffic down.

J

But you know we can't be everywhere at every place. No law enforcement agency can so we are out there. We are aware of where those areas are and we are doing what we can to stop it. But I would reiterate especially now with you know, hopefully some of those Springs here summers here: whatever this weather is and more motorcycles are out there, I would certainly remind everybody to just be aware of motorcycles and and where they're at and the possibility of then being around and not being able to see them. So we did.

J

We have done a couple traffic details. We did a Scots lot of detail. I think it may have talked about the Finance Committee meeting. We also did a distracted driving detail and those were very successful. Well successful, unsuccessfully successful, as people seem to not care about having a cell phone in their hand or up to the rear and again it's about following one putting your phone down while you're driving and pay attention to the road. So we will continue to do those throughout the year, though we're.

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Just gonna do it during distracted driving moment questions on the report.

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No questions: we have a motion in a second Oh mr. Snipes.

K

Along with motorcycles, we also encourage them not to count slow now for those sizes under construction. You know the workers that out there as well they're, not only 55 as much os, have wanted six flags or something, but just want to focus back real quickly on that trend, when you all are serving meals and things that the at the jail, something was brought to. My attention by one of the individuals were ever gonna end mate there and they told me that they were a diabetic and that they served them.

K

Sometimes they have to serve them outside of the meal time. We work with you with that, better, so in a generic sense or whether he says that you get me imported that y'all kind of did a good job as far as doing that or whatever and on the next sense. It lets me know that you got a deal with different diets because everybody don't eat meats or whatever up in the air and things its nature. Some people are diabetic or have other problems, so you have to be keen aware of that.

K

So it's just I mean you use it in the sense of just generic of you know, we provide the meals, but these meals are yes, amia.

J

That's a great point and I'm glad that somebody actually said that we do do that because sometimes, when you tell people that they're, like whatever yeah, we are required to prepare special meals for health issues, religious issues and allergy issues. So yeah, there's a I mean it's not just throwing slop in a bucket and throwing it on a tray and sending it out. I mean it's good food. Our food service provider does a great job.

J

We probably pay a little bit more than what we would normally if we went through a corrections, type food service, but it's to to eliminate lawsuits to eliminate problems in the jail. It's well worth. It.

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Other comments, okay, we have a motion in a second all in favor, say: aye opposed same sign motion carries so.

J

Greater gradient yep, so the upgraded radios, so we have talked about this for a while and we're trying to get what we need and what I guess we're trying to get a number for the Finance, Committee and I'll work with Tom to get his number I have the coroners number, and it just makes sense just to do this all in one one. Lump sum, rather than have Tom do a separate lease and Bob do a separate lease and the sheriff do a separate lease.

J

So we'll get all those numbers together for Finance, but a couple of things, and this made mr. chairman. This may benefit you and what you're thinking as far as the number I think, there's two things I think one we have to go out and seek the best possible interest rate for any sort of lease and look, maybe past Motorola, not gonna, look past them, but consider it depending on what the interest rate is. One of the advantages to Motorola's lease is that the first payment is due one year after the contract is executed.

J

So you actually have a little bit more time where I think if we lease from a bank the minute you take your lease out, you're gonna make your payment. So that's something also to consider but I'll get times. I have Bob's and we'll get those numbers back to Motorola and get the complete price complete numbers for the Finance Committee. If that's okay,.

D

If you're not paying your, you have to see the paperwork if you're not paying your first name until after your year, you've accrued all that interest throughout the year. So your principal is not being addressed, but again we'll look at the video.

J

Yeah, there's that there's options good.

J

Let's see I got a couple of things here summer, so some of the things that we like to show.

J

Just to show you what some of our officers do, we had an incident during the flooding where we received a phone call from or a 911 call. We didn't receive it and went to 9-1-1 and we had an officer who responded out on right. It's right off a Career Center Road in blue gill Road, if you're going out by Career Center before you get to that bridge. Almost a manteno, there's blue gill Road and you turn left with blue gill.

J

Road was flooded and our deputy responded sergeant, Todd, Hundley and we'll just show you what happened.

J

Yeah go ahead, so you can just watch it.

J

That's not bluegill Road.

J

So that's Career, Center and again you know we're going to a call, not knowing or hopefully that waters not across the road. This was during the three or four days that we were.

J

So these are two holding these girls. They were I want to say, holiday, college age. Probably it's probably good description. Yong, Yong, yeah.

J

Isn't this exciting I know.

J

So here he's coming up the bluegill road and yeah.

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Signs were out watering on pavement, so bluegill road is a road to the left.

J

And he's gonna turn on this road he's not gonna ruin the car. Mr. wheeler, don't worry I'm not here.

J

So there's the car you can see the car out in the middle. The girls in the car were a little bit scared. The water was a little bit, they didn't know what was deep, what wasn't deep and to narrate this and maybe move it along a little bit.

J

Our deputy sergeant, Huntley literally had in his car now this isn't standard-issue but had in his car a pair of waders yeah, all right, and so there he is wading out to the car in his waders, and some of you don't realize this, but had he walked out there in his boots, we would have had to buy him a new pair of boots, so we actually saved this one hundred and fifty bucks on a pair of boots. So but no it's. This is definitely going above and beyond.

J

Easy-Out there yet, okay, so.

A

J

Coming back, so that's really the gist of it. I just wanted to show you that I thought that was you.

A

Know here's an experienced guy- that's been through this before. That's probably why he carried it.

J

Exactly I think there's a couple guys that do carry waiters yeah. They literally had those waiters in their car. He was able to get these girls back to safety, not sure what the car ended up costing, but you know that wasn't our responsibility so and then secondly, another another feel-good story: if you will, we got notified that there was a world war, two vet a 94 year old, World, War, two vet who passed away and his services were may 8th. This gentleman had no family, he was in the Navy, he was 94 years old.

J

He was a graduate at Kankakee high school. We got a call in our office. Just basically saying hey. This guy has no family. He was one of the first residents of Miller, so you know how long he had been at Miller, no family, his burial was made and they asked us if we could send some people just to show up.

J

Our guys showed up and our guys ended up being pallbearers for me. So it's a credit, our guys, you know they're not just guys in uniform, they're human beings and they care about this community and I'm, really proud of them. For doing that, it was an awesome. It was an awesome day.

J

You know things like that is what make this job fun. So just thought you guys should.

J

That's not why we do this I mean, but but I think it's something that you guys as a board should know that you know they're just not out there. You know collecting a paycheck. They are literally working trying to make not only our department look good but trying to make the county itself look good and I think that's a credit to our staff and, like I, said I'm, so proud of him for doing what they did.

J

This guy, who deserved more, we were, we were glad we could help so creates all those guys, a couple of other things and then I'll be done. The quote attributed to me yesterday during public comment, was accurate.

J

Laura McElroy was at the symposium and wrote the articles. She did a great job with it. We kind of joked that since it was in the journal, it wasn't accurate, but Laura was actually a spot-on and so I just wanted to clarify that, as we sometimes laugh and make jokes. So you hear every month as a board from from our local anti immigration detention groups.

J

You also hear from others from places like Skokie and Evanston and who come down and tell us how bad we are for housing, price.

J

Mr. Olaf brought up a valid question that.

J

As as we've gone back and forth before, unfortunately, we can't provide names. We can't provide much information because all that information has to come through ice, but here's what I can tell you these.

J

These papers are the papers that we get back from ice every day, so these are these papers on your right are what we get back from ice. These papers on your left are what we get back from the Illinois Department of Corrections, when we, when we go pick up, people who are getting out of prison now remember we talked about the people who are getting out of prison years ago.

J

People were getting out of prison coming back in our community, so these are detainees with ice holes who are who are now being picked up by law enforcement and ultimately going through. They have already gone through the ice process and they are being deported and all I can tell you and I will tell you just roll thought that briefly answer your question.

J

I, I and and I've got I won't go through all these, but you know: I'll just go through the first few criminal sexual assault, family member, less than 18 aggravated criminal sexual abuse victim less than 13 aggravated criminal. Sexual abuse, victim 13 to 17 manufactured delivery, less than 900 grams of cocaine, predatory criminal, sexual assault, DUI. Fourth, DUI.

J

Manufactured delivery, less than a hundred grams of cocaine driving revoked. Now, if you go to prison for driving revoked you've done it more than once, probably done it more than three or four times aggravated criminal sexual assault. Less than five years old manufactured delivery, less than hundred grams of cocaine aggravated DUI death of another home invasion, manufactured delivery, less than hundred grams of cocaine, predatory criminal, sexual assault and and I've got 40 more I can give you that's from do see.

J

These are pages that we get from ice when we have a nice when ice is sending or we are transporting back from Chicago ice detainees to come here and I will show you. These yellow highlights, highlighted in yellow are those with criminal offenses, okay, so this is from March 6th, and these are these were just taken in order. So the blue highlights are those who are here for illegal entry or no charges so of the four six eight ten that came back. Two of them were illegal entry. No charges now remember.

J

Illegal entry can mean that they've tried to come here multiple times and they automatically go back. So, there's no there's no discussion on whether they're charged with a crime or anything. That's a nice. That's ice rules, there's one solo and you look at these yellow numbers.

J

There's two blue there's three yellows, there's two blue two blue I'm hope I'm holding this up in the camera and somebody's looking at it: yellow, yellow, yellow, remember, yellows, criminal charges, blue yellow, 3 blue, because we, you know three blue, blue, but more yellow, so I think you get the point as to what we're talking about, and you know, I'm all for as as I was properly quoted yesterday by the Daily Journal I'm, all for sitting down and working with Washington DC and trying to figure out something, but for people to come and talk and make it sound like we are housing.

J

People who have done nothing wrong is ludicrous. It's absolutely ludicrous. Our locals. Have a story. I mean ice. Detainees have a story. Our local inmates have a story. Everybody's got a story, but, but here it is, this is what we're getting back, we're getting people who are criminal here you want to come to our country, don't commit a crime, it's that simple I mean I, don't know where else you can go with this, but every month we'll get people coming in saying.

J

Oh these poor poor guys and it's you know what they're telling you is just not accurate. So that's information. You guys need to know because all you're hearing is one side. Mister.

A

L

You chairman, can we videotape the sheriff's comments and play it after each public comment and board.

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J

Think we can do, let's see so that's that they mentioned yesterday. There's legislation about this 287g agreement through ice and what this 287g agreement does is. Basically, it allows us to train or allows ice to Train individuals within our department, whether they're, deputies or correctional officers, who then have the ability to serve a nice hold because right now under the law. If nobody from ice is here, we cannot legally hold an ice detainee.

J

So if we have a nice detainee in here or is somebody who has a nice hold and we have in our custody on our local charges, so he's committed a crime or at least he was arrested for committing a crime, we're all innocent.

K

Till proven guilty.

J

We cannot hold him and wait for ice to get here under the law right now and we don't do that. What this allows us to do is this allows our staff to basically act as a member of ice and serve that detainee. So we can hold it now. People say: oh, that's just you know skirting the system.

J

Well, you know what as the sheriff, if somebody's here on a criminal charge and we're not able to hold him because he's got a nice hold and he goes out and does something like kill somebody who's gonna get who's gonna get blamed for it sure. So we're not I mean we're still looking into this. We're not sure that we're gonna end up doing it, but it is on the table in what they said. Yesterday was accurate about that being on the table. So.

A

People from different ice.

J

Yeah ice would do that they would train multiple. They were trained.

A

J

As I always like to do, although sometimes I can't but I'd like to end on positives, look mister.

A

Altough has no question.

J

About Ariane.

A

L

If there are undocumented workers in the county who have a driver's license and who are obeying the laws, if Bernal.

J

That he's going after that exactly.

L

Vince and we get told differently- yes,.

J

So the positives at the at the end here, our medical savings I've talked to you about our medical savings and what we're doing with our medical staff and going through medical bills and who understand how medical billing works, which I don't believe.

J

Well, maybe some of us in here understand it but I sure as heck, don't we have saved after almost one year a hundred eleven thousand dollars that we did not pay that had she not been here, we would have end up paid and I know somebody mentioned about drug court, unfortunately, the derocker graduation and the law enforcement memorial or similar times if you choose, whichever one you wish, will be at the courthouse and the courthouse alone at 11 o'clock tomorrow for the law enforcement memorial and certainly invite all of you to come just like you can go to the courthouse and go to drug court graduation as well, because again, the drug court.

J

Graduation, is an important part of the process of these individuals getting through this program and going on to be productive citizens in our community and that's a good thing. That's a very good thing. That's.

A

J

A

Other questions or comments for the sheriff, but.

J

We do have one more picture Trent. If you want to show the picture we didn't. It wasn't on the video of our of our deputy, going to rescue those girls.

J

J

All right there, they are see.

A

J

J

It's a good thing: yeah.

A

Okay, next is the corner. In your package we have a copy of the coroner's monthly report and the coroner's monthly receipt of money combined and approve them. Mr. leer, second, by Miss Parker good morning partner. Good morning, sir wonderful I, don't.

M

Have any movies I? Don't think you want to see him.

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M

You see our our report here, I'll kind of go quickly on that we're holding our budget real, real comfortable right now. We are increasing a little bit on autopsies, but here comes the summer months. Basically, we usually rise on other. Now, I, don't see a lot. We were also holding the right now: nine overdoses right now in the county and two pending right now, that's just a great achievement right there to bring it down to where it was in 2017.

M

We're continually doing work on that I'll. Take any questions. Anybody has on this here and I'll go over some other stuff.

A

Questions we have a motion in a second all in favor, say aye opposed same sign. Motion carries good.

M

News is we're gonna continue at and three years ago, when I got the 225,000. We hit another 225,000 at last year and this year here we're going to get 300,000. So that's gonna be another help for us to not only get equipment that what county would have to buy. We can buy it off the grant.

M

It helps quite considerably I. Think that's a big achievement with the narcan program of bringing our numbers down. I also have told you that, like what my goal was in 2017 to now and I think we've achieved it in Kankakee County is that I spent lat yep. Last week, I went out to the family.

M

Guidance Center out with the old Brandon house, and I got to see and tour through the place of what they're gonna do here and that be our achievements that somebody comes up to me and wanted, though, what can I do for my granddaughter my daughter, my sister there's the answer: they're open, 24, 24, 7, there's nothing I talk to the vice president, a family Guidance Center and their director.

M

It was a very interesting talk, they're big into all the communities from Joliet areas where we learned about them and they've came over to the brand new house. They got 50 I, think beds right now: they're they're up to 80 beds, working well with all of our people throughout to the Helen wheeler and the Dwayne Dean they're working with these people up in the manteno of the system. It's now Iroquois I'm, really pleased with it. I spent my chief deputy and I spent about an hour out there redoing the place painting the place.

M

I was very very impressed. So if an officer does come across something like that, they'll be able to take him in there right away and get treatment for their average stays about 28 days. They want to go even farther farther than that to bring in to bring in a detox centers of our heritage, I'm, very, very thrilled with that.

M

You know. The only other thing that we got I saw what Michael did and also in our area was just not right. Crossover in the farm field.

M

Over here we we come across a lot of bones in a particular Cemetery that nobody know whose property it was and through first of all, when when we only got the bones, we quickly took pictures sent them to my anthropologist immediately within about 15 to 20 minutes after I sent him I got an answer back and said that they're human bones, it's usually usually finding some type of a deer or animal bones. These are human bones, which now becomes a crime scene.

M

So not knowing what the place was consider only working out the sheriff was out there with me and I SBI called ISP that crime scene people in there. We got through all that and found out it's a cemetery. It was the first cemetery of the kinky State Hospital way back in the eighteen, hundreds to the 1900s that I went on their other cemetery, which is a cross river road. We were able to find out through the county when I went up to the planning department. I found out that this was pinky.

M

Valley Park, District's property went over to the talk to the executive director over there. She was very nice about everything like we talked about what we were gonna do and went out. There I talked to the answer policies again, who talked to the state of Illinois. As long as we bury those bones again, we are all right and they're putting the fence around that because even goes back into the Civil War days, the possibility there's over 40 some bodies.

M

We did so, though those are some of the things that that we did and in cooperation with law enforcement worked out very well an aspect other other than that I'm looking at I think I got everything down here. Oh they don't want to look to my right and say only the chairman to the grandpa.

M

Congratulations on your award. That's your grandsons got the medal on our words and they got the Medal of Valor award second-highest.

M

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M

Thank you. Any questions.

A

Okay, Thank You mr. Parker.

N

Thank You mr. chairman Bob I, just want to say thank you for the seminar that was last month at KCC about marijuana and it coming into the state of Illinois I. Opening facts were presented and testimony from your speaker so I just want to say thank you and I hope. People really realize it's not as good as they think is going to be for Illinois. So.

M

N

Bringing that to the attention of the public thank.

M

You very much it's been a long haul, we're not done yet anybody that's interested in a little bit more data, the ones they think.

I

They got I'd.

M

Be more than happy to talk to them, one on one, because it's dangerous, you're, gonna watch our numbers go up. 2012 I told you about heroin I'm telling you about marijuana, but sometimes it goes in one ear out. The other.

A

Your microphone is turned off any old business to come before the committee, any old business, any new business to come before the committee. Take a motion to adjourn mr. Olaf. In the absence of mr. majestic miss Dunbar, all in favor, say aye opposed same sign motion carries make sure everybody is signed.