If your Booking ID ends with an odd number, you will receive a permanent schedule of Monday and Wednesday from 8:00am-4:00pm. Starting January 1, 2022, every participant will be allowed essential movement. Through court orders, participants may be granted permission to work, attend school, and/or participate in job skill programs.Ĭurrent participants on the Electronic Monitoring Program, should call the phone number below 24 hours per day, seven days a week for all movement requests and questions regarding the program rules and regulations: Movement While on EMĪt a minimum, any person ordered to pretrial home confinement with or without electronic monitoring must be provided with movement spread out over no fewer than two days per week to participate in basic activities such as those listed in this procedure (730 ILCS 5/5-8A-4 A-1) What EM Participants Can Do While On The Program

Tampering includes but is not limited to attempting to or removing the ankle bracelet, failure to charge and allowing the bracelet battery to deplete, damaging the bracelet, or treating/using the equipment in such a way as to activate other tamper detectors. The GPS bracelet informs the Monitoring Center when the individual in custody leaves and enters the home, the places of travel, as well as if the equipment has been tampered. The transmitter emits a global positioning location to the Electronic Monitoring Unit and is also a two-way communication device. The individual in custody wears the ankle bracelet 24 hours a day. The individual in custody is fitted with an ankle bracelet that is a global positioning system. Placement at the residence must comply with the conditions of bond and must not violate any local, state, or federal laws or regulations.

The residence must not be the same address as the participant’s current or past victim of a domestic violence-related or sex-related crime.

The homeowner or leaseholder must consent to the placement.

The residence must be compatible with the EM equipment and.

The residence must be a house, apartment, or condo.

Placements to EM are court ordered as a condition of bond and can be requested by the Assistant State’s Attorney or the Public Defender.ĮM participants will be approved for placement at a residence for monitoring provided the following criteria are met: Since 15 December 2008, placements onto Electronic Monitoring have been made in Central Bond Court or the trial courts. The average daily population of this program is well over 2,000.

The monitoring program is used as a community-based alternative incarceration concept that allows pre-trial, and short-time sentenced individuals in custody to remain in the community instead of being incarcerated in jail. Since its inception in 1989, over 300,000 DOC individuals in custody have been placed on EM. The Cook County Sheriff’s Electronic Monitoring Program (EM) is a pre-trial monitoring program created to ease overcrowding in the Cook County Department of Corrections.

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