(a)
(1) The Division of Community Correction shall provide data and information as requested by the Board of Corrections.
(2) That data and information shall include without limitation:
(A) The total number of probationers from each of the Division of Community Correction's individual probation or parole areas for the current year and previous years, as available;
(B) The total number of probation revocations, including revocations that result from violations and from new crimes for the current year and previous years, as available;
(C) The total number of new felony convictions and the rate of new felony convictions from each of the Division of Community Correction's individual probation or parole areas for the current year and previous years, as available;
(D) The amount of grant funds distributed to each individual probation or parole areas; and
(E) The evidence-based programs established or enhanced by the Division of Community Correction as part of its effort to reduce revocations and improve public safety and any subsequent evidence-based programs that contribute to the outcomes of the performance incentive funding program under this subchapter.
(b) Each grantee shall provide data and information as requested by the board, including without limitation:
(1) The list of counties, if in a multicounty partnership, participating;
(2) The amount of grant funds distributed under this subchapter to each county, multicounty partnership, or judicial district; and
(3) The programs established or enhanced as part of each applicant's successful grant proposal and any subsequent evidence-based programs that contribute to the outcomes of the program under this subchapter.
(c) The board shall report all data, findings, and recommendations annually for improvement to the:
(1) Governor;
(2) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court;
(3) Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts;
(4) Speaker of the House of Representatives;
(5) President of the Senate;
(6) Chair of the House Committee on Judiciary; and
(7) Chair of the Senate Committee on Judiciary.
(d)
(1) The board's report shall include an analysis of the impact of the performance incentive funding program.
(2) This analysis shall include without limitation the effect, compared to baseline, on net Division of Correction bed usage by the Division of Community Correction and by all county grantees, as well as Division of Correction admissions and lengths-of-stay, moneys paid out, revocation rates and new crime conviction rates for the Division of Community Correction, and guidelines compliance for participating counties.
(3) The board shall provide analyses on an area-by-area basis for the Division of Community Correction performance incentive funding program and on a county-by-county, multicounty-partnership, or judicial-district basis for the local performance incentive funding program.
(e) The board shall conduct a study and make recommendations, as needed, to those persons or entities listed in subsection (b) of this section, three (3) years after the implementation of the program established under this subchapter and every third year thereafter to determine whether to change the baseline year that determines revocation reduction benchmarks.
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