Senate Enrolled Act No. 171 Summary

• Requires community corrections plans to include a collaboration plan between probation departments and community corrections programs for supervising adult offenders, with submission to the department and Indiana judicial center by July 1, 2017.

• Collaboration plan must address evidence-based services, reduction of service duplication, coordination of operations, eligibility criteria for services, use of community corrections as intermediate sanctions, and funding allocation for adult felony offenders.

• Authorizes the commissioner to give priority for additional financial aid to counties with an approved community supervision collaboration plan, with aid usable for any evidence-based service or program in the approved plan.

• Requires probation departments to submit a community supervision collaboration plan as described in the statute, enforced by the judicial conference of Indiana.

• Effective date: July 1, 2014.