Good afternoon, everyone.

Um we will officially begin the uh Marion County Community Correction Advisory Board meeting and also the local Justice Reinvestment Advisory Council.

Um if we can start off with a roll call with Mrs.

Scott Carr uh good afternoon, Scott Carr, uh City County Council appointment.

Good afternoon, Natrina Debo, um community advocate uh good afternoon, Paige Bova, Mary's Superior Court, uh Circuit Court appointment.

Bailey Renche, board counsel, Judge Jeffrey Marshall, Mary in Superior Court.

Judge Melanie Kendrick, Marion Superior Court, Dan Chickeny, Marion County Prosecutor's Office.

Ray Casanova, Chief Public Defender, Marion County.

Good afternoon, Anita Hall, community advocate.

Excellent.

And I am uh Carlette Duffy, I'm CFO for the Office of Public Health and Safety.

So our first um agenda item will be the consideration for approval for our January 15 minutes.

And we've been provided those by Ms.

Coleman for um in hard copy and electronic copy.

Um does anyone have any questions or additions to the minutes?

Perfect.

So if I could get a um a motion to approve.

Somewhere second.

Having a first and second.

Um again, any conversation, correction, any anything for the minutes.

Okay.

Um, all of those in favor of passing the minutes.

Anyone opposed?

They are approved.

Thank you.

And next we have for our next two agenda items.

Director Scott, um, Scott Hole uh for the annual report presentation and then also um any agency updates and welcome back from the uh west side of Markey Street.

Oh I yes, I've spent a little bit of time over there.

Um, and speaking of which I'll be giving an update.

Really, the two items that I'll really be covering today is just our 2025 annual report and some highlights of what we were able to do last year, and then an update on the 2027 uh Department of Corrections uh Community Corrections grant.

Um so I'll jump right into it.

Um just starting off with some numbers from 2025.

We worked with a total of 6,870 clients uh last year, 4,644 of those were post-conviction, 2,226 pretrial, 444 out of uh work release facility.

Um added something we try to switch it up a little bit, um adding a little more detail just as uh for maybe some context of of who it is that we are working with, um just the top four uh levels of offenses.

Uh I didn't break that down into what what type of offense, but um I will say that you know our in best practice and in and kind of the vision of community supervision that that F4 to F6 is kind of the targeted population, if you will, for community supervision, the individuals that we would most work with.

Um so that is reflected here in those numbers.

Our processing, which is intake and release, uh we held uh a little over 6200 intakes last year and released over 2600 individuals from that area.

DeVall had three use of force incidents uh in 2025.

One thing I want to make sure that everyone on the board is clear about and uh those watching at home.

When we say use of force, uh we take that uh a very broad definition.

If we have to lay hands on someone for any reason, even if it's just to guide them uh to a uh holding cell or for uh for some reason, we consider that use of force if we have to lay hands on someone.

So um that is not three fights, that is not three deployments of tasers or OC spray or anything like that.

So it's a very broad definition.

Um given that uh going back to the number we had four before serving over 400 people over the course of a year, uh you know, the the young the men living there 365 days a year.

Um I think three use of force in that that broad definition uh is a testament to the the de escalation skills that they utilize to avoid uh situations escalating to that type of event.

Same thing here with uh 15 substance use emergencies.

I I kind of tweaked that from saying overdoses because those are not all from a medical definition overdoses.

These are instances where we know that they ingested some sort of substance or many times came into the building having ingested something and show symptoms that go beyond just our nursing staff wanting to keep an eye on them.

If we have to call EMS because they're throwing up because they have elevated blood pressures, because of anything like that, we list those as technically as an overdose, but it is really just a any time we have to involve EMS to even if they are coherent and denying any use and everything else, we still list those.

On the year, we had 2% of the individuals out at the ball that are disabled and unable to work, and that unfortunately that is also increased since June to a little over right around 6%.

Call center handled just over 200,000 calls last year.

That is the most we've ever been able to handle in a single year.

First time we've cracked 200,000 mark.

Um and that same group also handles 22,000 alerts during the course of a year.

While we had an increase of nearly 8,000 calls that we handled from 2024 to 2025, we did reduce our wait time.

I know that our wait time and people unable to get through is a source of concern for our clients, and I hear it in the community when I when I meet with groups, and I know that's true, but I also know that 200,000 calls handled by roughly 16 staff over the course of seven days, 24 hours a day.

Um the the volume just overwhelms the number of staff we have.

Um and and honestly, in order to get that wait time to what you might expect when you're calling you know your dentist or your doctor or something along those lines, we would probably have to triple our staff.

Um field team uh and law enforcement liaison uh again did a tremendous amount of work working with IMPD, um conducting over 5,700 home visits.

Um just I now that I look at this on you know uh a 14th time that probably looks a little bit misleading.