Lake County Law & Judicial Committee met July 26.
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 - 8.3)
*APPROVAL OF MINUTES*
8.1 22-0988
Minutes from June 28, 2022.
*REPORTS*
8.2 22-0984
Report from Joy Gossman, Public Defender, for the month of June 2022.
Report from John D. Idleburg, Sheriff, for the month of June 2022.
REGULAR AGENDA
*SHERIFF'S OFFICE*
8.4 22-0990
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 $50,862.59.
∙ 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, 2022, and ending July 31, 2023.
∙ The contract includes one part-time SRO for 17 hours per week while school is in session.
∙ Beach Park School District #3 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. State’s Attorney’s Office has reviewed this contract.
8.5 22-1005
Joint resolution authorizing the purchase of a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms specification, Type 2 explosive storage magazine for the Lake County Sheriff’s Office to secure firearms, ammunition, explosive munitions and less lethal munitions at the Lake County Range from Armag Corporation, Bardstown, KY in the amount of $67,686.24.
∙ Sheriff’s Office requires a dry storage magazine used to secure firearms, ammunition, explosive munitions and less lethal munitions at the Lake County Range.
∙ Pursuant to Article 10-101 of the Lake County Purchasing Ordinance, Cooperative Purchasing, Lake County may participate in a cooperative purchasing agreement for the procurement of goods with one or more public procurement units in accordance with an agreement entered into between the participants.
∙ The Lake County Sheriff’s Office identified a joint purchasing contract with Armag Corporation through GSA contract #47QSWA22D002S.
*STATE'S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE*
8.6 22-1015
Joint resolution authorizing an 18-month extension for the State’s Attorney’s Office Prosecutor-based Victim Assistance Program through a Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grant awarded by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) including an emergency appropriation of $268,887 in federal funds for the period of July 1, 2022, through December 31, 2023.
∙ This VOCA Prosecutor-based Victim Assistance grant extension will enable continuation of this program that provides advocacy services to the currently under-served sexual assault, misdemeanor domestic violence, elder abuse, and aggravated battery victim populations.
∙ The grant is administered through the ICJIA for the performance period of July 1, 2022, through December 31, 2023.
∙ The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office currently receives Victim of Crime Act grant funding from ICJIA to support two Victim/Witness Coordinator positions in the office. The Victim/Witness Coordinators work with the victims throughout the criminal justice process by providing them with advocacy, on-going support, and an understanding of the criminal court process.
∙ The additional funding of $268,887, will be used to fund a portion of the salary and benefits for a Sexual Assault Victim/Witness Coordinator and the salary and benefits for a full-time Domestic Violence Victim/Witness Coordinator. No county funds are required.
∙ If funding for these positions end, and new funding is not secured, the positions will be eliminated.
*SAFE-T ACT*
8.7 22-1025
Joint Presentation on SAFE-T Act Impacts. 9. County Administrator's Report
10. Executive Session
11. Members' Remarks
12. Adjournment
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