Allen County Community Corrections

:: Communications Division

Purpose:
Communications staff are responsible for the 24/7 tracking of over 400 violent or serious offenders sentenced to Home Detention, Forensic Diversion, Community Control, Community Transitions, and Reentry Court.  All clients sentenced to any of these programs in Allen County are monitored electronically using state of the art RF (radio frequency) and GPS tracking systems.

Communications serves three critical functions for Community Corrections;  Electronic Monitoring, Police Dispatching and serving as the contact point for the bulk of telephone communication with offenders.  Communications has the responsibility for the electronic monitoring of the whereabouts of each and every offender 24 hours a day.  Communications employees also serve as police dispatchers for the Home Detention officers, FWPD and ACPD police officers that work with Community Corrections performing field supervision, home checks and employer visits.  The Communications Division also receives and documents between 1200 and 1500 phone calls from clients each day in our monitoring center.

Clients are required to submit a work schedule to Communications each week.  Alerts are generated by the system for the Communications staff.  Each and every alert is viewed by trained monitoring specialists who will then make a determination if the alert is a violation of the program.  If a violation has occurred, staff will take appropriate measures and dispatch an officer to check on the offender if necessary.

ACCC Communications is one of four 24/7 police dispatch centers in Allen County and works closely with the FWPD, ACPD, and New Haven dispatchers.  With all agencies on the same 800 Mhz radio system, officers from any local agency can have direct contact with Community Corrections.  The Communications Division also uses the same Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) software and Records Management System (RMS) as all the other law enforcement agencies in Allen County.  ACCC dispatchers can check for warrants, driver’s license information or other valuable information by using IDACS and NCIC.  If necessary, they have the ability to send Attempt to Locate (ATL) messages to all officers from any local agency that are using a mobile data terminal, they also have the ability to send messages to any law enforcement agency in the nation.
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