Executive Summary

This report primarily covers FY 2003-04 with some historical data provided for the time period from July 1, 1993 , through June 30, 2004 . Data are reported in sections: demographics, workload, outcomes and absconders. Each section includes an executive summary and sub-sections on each supervision/monitoring type. In the outcomes sections comparisons are made between types of supervision / monitoring as well as by type of offender within a supervision / monitoring type.

Some significant findings regarding Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring include:

• The majority of offenders placed on GPS during FY 2003-04 are categorized as violent, and more than half had at least one prior placement on Community Control, Radio Frequency (RF) Monitoring or GPS.
• Violent offenders had a lower successful completion rate (16.3%) within two years of placement on GPS than other types of offenders.
• The rate of absconding after two years was lowest for GPS(0.1%) compared to CC (2.4%) and RF monitoring, (1.5%).
• Less than one percent of sex offenders absconded within two years of placement on GPS .
• After two years on RF monitoring, 15.5% of sex offenders were changed to GPS compared to only 7.1% of other offenders.

Salient points concerning the demographic breakdown of program participants by gender, race and age for new placements in Fiscal Year 2003-04 are as follows:

• Table 1A: The 18-24 age group comprised the largest percentage of placements on Community Control (35.0%), Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring (35.5%) and Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring (30.2%).



• Table 1B: Offenders placed for a drug offense comprised the largest group for both Community Control (32.2%) and Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring (23.2%). Offenders placed for sexual offenses comprised the largest group for Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring (35.9%).



• Table 1C: Approximately one-third (40.6%) of offenders placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring are sex offenders compared to 12.8% on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring and 3.2% on Community Control.



• Table 1D: More than half (62.9%) of those placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring had at least one prior placement on Community Control, Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring and/or Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring