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Lake County Law & Judicial Committee Met June 29.

Here is the agenda provided by the committee:

1. Call to Order

2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Roll Call of Members

4. Addenda to the Agenda

5. Public Comment (Items not on the agenda)

6. Chair's Remarks

7. Unfinished Business

8. New Business

CONSENT AGENDA (Items 8.1 - 8.7)

*Approval of Minutes*

8.1 21-0964

Minutes from May 25, 2021.

8.2 21-0965

*CIRCUIT CLERK*

8.3 21-0878

Report from Erin Cartwright Weinstein, Clerk of the Circuit Court, for the month of April, 2021.

*SHERIFF'S*

8.4 21-0966

Report from John D. Idleburg, Sheriff, for the month of May, 2021.

*CORONER'S*

8.5 21-0962

Report from Jennifer Banek, Coroner, for the month of March, 2021.

8.6 21-0990

Report from Jennifer Bank, Coroner, for the month of April, 2021.

8.7 21-0963

Report from Jennifer Banek, Coroner, Annual Report 2020.

REGULAR AGENDA

*STATE'S ATTORNEY*

8.8 21-0951

Joint resolution authorizing the renewal of the State's Attorney's Violent Crime Victims Assistance (VCVA) grant program awarded by the Office of the Illinois Attorney General for State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2022, including grant funding of $35,000.

∙ This is a request to renew the VCVA grant administered through the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, with a grant period from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022.

∙ Grant program goals include the promotion of fairness, accountability and coordination of services for victims and witnesses of domestic violence, and the promotion of policy and procedure for domestic violence cases in order to improve response by law enforcement and court personnel.

∙ The grant will fund $35,000 to offset a portion of the salary of a domestic violence victim witness coordinator (DV Coordinator).

∙ The DV Coordinator position and grant is already included in the State’s Attorney’s approved County Fiscal Year (CFY) 2021 budget.

8.9 21-0952

Joint resolution authorizing the acceptance of a State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2022 Juvenile Justice Council (JJC) grant awarded to and by the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission (IJJC) through the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) to enhance and strengthen the Lake County JJC,by the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office, including an emergency appropriation of $55,740 in grant funds.

∙ The Lake County JJC is a collaborative effort of many government and private agencies addressing juvenile justice procedures and programs.

∙ The JJC works to identify initiatives/areas in which attention or enhancement will benefit the County’s JJC overall and the individuals involved.

∙ The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office has been awarded a 12-month JJC Grant in the amount of $55,740 from the IJJC through the IDHS.

∙ The grant term is July 1, 2021 through Jun 30, 2022.

∙ The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office will use the funds to enhance and strengthen the JJC through annual training, outreach and focusing on programs that are proactive in preventing delinquency.

∙ Grant program funding will support the creation and purchase of preventative/proactive printed materials and giveaways, a JJC conference speaker, webpage/website designer, a part-time JJC Coordinator, a cellphone and laptop with accessories.

∙ The source of funding for this JJC project is 100 percent grant funds; no match funding is required.

8.10 21-0953

Joint resolution authorizing the acceptance of a State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2022 Juvenile Justice Youth Service Program (JJYSP) grant awarded to the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office by the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission (IJJC) through the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) to implement A Step Up Program that helps address youth involved in adolescent domestic battery within their homes, including an emergency appropriation of $50,485 in grant funds.

∙ The Lake County Juvenile Justice Council (JJC) is a collaborative effort of many government and private agencies addressing juvenile justice procedures and programs and is run by the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office.

∙ The JJC proposed to IJJC to implement a JJYSP, Step Up, in Lake County to help address youth involved in adolescent domestic battery within their homes. Step Up is an acronym for Stop-Think-Evaluate-Plan-Use-Patience. Through the Step Up Program, youth and their parent(s) work with social workers for more than 21 weeks in group therapy sessions. The sessions utilize a restorative justice and Circumplex Family Systems Model to focus on accountability, empathy, communication, but also restoring relationships and establishing appropriate authority within the home.

∙ Anticipated outcomes for providing the Step Up program as a developmentally appropriate, individualized support and services option for these youth relate to skill attainment, the use of effective conflict reduction and communication strategies, improved mental health, and need for police intervention. All of which will improve the juvenile recidivism rate for these youth.

∙ The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office has been awarded a 12-month JJYSP Grant in the amount of $55,740 from the IJJC through the IDHS.

∙ The grant term is July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022.

∙ The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office will use the grant funding to implement a Step Up Program in Lake County by subcontracting with OMNI Youth Services, which is the Comprehensive Community Based Youth Services (CCBYS) agency in Lake County. OMNI Youth will provide two social workers to administer the program with the youth and their families. Funding will also be used for grant administration, program supplies, brochures and training to implement the program.

∙ The source of funding for this JJYSP project is 100 percent grant funds; no match funding is required.

8.11 21-0954

Joint resolution authorizing the creation of a part-time Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program grant funded position at the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office to coordinate the 23-hour Crisis Triage Stabilization Center.

∙ In October 2020, the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office was awarded a Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program: Support of Mental Health Centers grant through the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice (BJA) for a Crisis Triage Stabilization Center (Center) in the amount of $750,000.

∙ The grant term is for three years, starting October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2023.

∙ A resolution was passed by the Lake County Board in November 2020 authorizing the grant acceptance and an emergency appropriation of funds.

∙ The 23-hour premier center is a cross-system partnership between the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office, Northern Illinois Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (NICASA), Independence Center, Lake County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO), 46 municipal police agencies, and behavioral health treatment and service providers.

∙ Through grant funding, the Center will provide prearrest diversion and police drop-off of low-level offenders experiencing mental illness 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.

∙ This Project will improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental illness 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 part-time grant funded Coordinator position was originally budgeted to be subcontracted through NICASA. However, the position has been moved to the

Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office.

∙ Grant funds for the part-time position are already budgeted in the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Budget, but it is necessary for Human Resources to create and add the position to the State’s Attorney’s position inventory.

8.12 21-0973

Joint resolution authorizing the renewal of the Lake County Children’s Advocacy Center’s victim advocate grant program, awarded by the Department of Children & Family Services (DCFS) for State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2022, including grant funding of $86,094.

∙ DCFS grant funding to provide partial salary for a victim advocate at the Lake County Children’s Advocacy Center began prior to 1998 and has been renewed each year since.

∙ This grant is for the period of July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022 and funds a portion of the salary and benefits for two victim advocates housed at the Lake County Children’s Advocacy Center.

∙ The victim advocates provide comprehensive, supportive services to child victims and their non-offending family members, throughout the court process.

∙ Program goals include providing advocacy services for child victims of abuse and their non-offending family members, providing a digitally recorded interview in a child friendly location, providing mental health referrals, providing emotional support, conducting protocol reviews and Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) case meetings, and preventing re-victimization of children through education.

∙ Sources of funding include state funds in the amount of $86,094 for partial salary and benefits of two victim advocates assigned to the grant program. The Children’s Advocacy Center provides any additional salary costs by reimbursing the State’s Attorney’s Office.

*COURT ADMINISTRATION*

8.13 21-0957

Joint resolution authorizing a five-year contract, plus renewal options, with West Publishing Corporation, Eagan, Minnesota for Online Legal, Public Record, Investigative, and Research Services in the estimated annual amount of $222,613.20.

∙ The current contract for online Legal, Public Record, Investigative, and Research services is expiring.

∙ Online legal research provides web-based access to 167 users in various County departments to search legal databases, three patron access terminals in the Law Library and West km provides knowledge management software to 50 users.

∙ Purchasing identified a cooperative purchasing contract with West Publishing Corporation, Eagan, Minnesota, through Cook County Master Agreement to

procure Online Legal, Public Record, Investigative, and Research Services that was competitively solicited and awarded.

∙ The contract authorizes the Purchasing Agent to enter into a five-year agreement, with no renewal options, that will cost the County an estimated annual amount of $222,613.20 to be paid from various Lake County accounts. Terms of this contract is August 1, 2021 thru July 31, 2026.

∙ Pursuant to Article 10-101 of the Lake County Purchasing Ordinance, Cooperative Purchasing, Lake County may participate in a cooperative purchasing agreement with West Publishing Corporation.

*SHERIFF'S*

8.14 21-0876

Joint resolution approving an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) for part-time contractual police services by and among the Beach Park School District #3, Lake County and the Lake County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) in the amount of $47,706.21.

∙ Beach Park School District #3, and the LCSO piloted a part-time police/school resource officer program in 2016 to provide police services in the form of a police/school resource officer (SRO) at the Beach Park Middle School.

∙ The main objectives in having an SRO are to develop a positive relationship between law enforcement and the students, effectively deal with juvenile offenses/issues and to protect students and the school from violations of the law.

∙ The term of this agreement is for one year - beginning August 1, 2021- and ending July 31, 2022.

∙ The contract includes one part-time SRO for 16 hours per week while school is in session.

∙ Beach Park School District three, will reimburse 100 percent of the cost for the SRO position for the hours worked. The SRO will be assigned other duties while not serving as the SRO.

8.15 21-0969

Sheriff’s Annual Update.

*CIRCUIT CLERK*

8.16 21-0971

Circuit Clerk’s Annual Update.

9. County Administrator's Report

10. Executive Session

11. Members' Remarks

12. Adjournment

Next Meeting: July 27, 2021 https://lakecounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=827330&GUID=C2994CC0-DAB0-461D-B7E1-ED1BB7996AC4