210 IAC 2-1-2 Establishing, operating, and evaluating correctional programs

Sec. 2. (a) This section governs the minimum standards for establishing, operating, and evaluating correctional programs funded under IC 11-12-2. (b) Programs involving domiciliary care shall be established and operated in accordance with the following: (1) Standards promulgated by the Indiana state department of health, the state fire marshal, and the fire prevention and building safety commission. (2) Other applicable standards and statutes. Such programs shall be subject to inspection in the same manner as all other facilities and programs supported by public funds. (c) Programs involving residential care shall be governed by applicable licensing, inspection, and other supervisory requirements imposed by law. (d) Programs of referral shall be required to meet all state and federal licensing requirements. (e) Educational and vocational type service programs shall meet standards set forth by the department of education. (f) Court supervision programs, including any form of specialized probation services, shall meet standards prescribed by the probation standards and practices committee as promulgated by the judicial conference. (g) Program components that assess user fees under IC 31-6-4-18 [IC 31-6 was repealed by P.L.1-1997, SECTION 157, effective July 1, 1997.], IC 35-38-2-1, or IC 35-38-2.5-6, or collect any other user fee from a participant in a community correction program component shall provide to the department of correction, for approval, a written fee schedule, approved by the local advisory board, for each program component. The fee schedule shall specify how the fees are determined, including the rationale for determining the minimum and maximum amounts assessed for each program and the policy for serving the indigent population. (h) In accordance with IC 11-12-2-3(a)(3), a written annual report will be required of all community corrections programs funded under IC 11-12-2 and will contain an evaluation of the effectiveness of the program, recommendations for improvement, modification, or discontinuance of the program, or any other data agreed upon in the original grant. The aforementioned reports will be submitted according to a schedule established by the department of correction. (i) Programs receiving community corrections grant funds will be required to submit reports as required by the department of correction outlining the program activities and a monthly financial report detailing the month's expenditures and other reports as required by the department of correction. (j) All program activity reports and monthly financial reports will be submitted in a format prescribed by the policies and procedures of the department of correction. (k) All program activity reports and monthly financial reports will be submitted to the commissioner or designee by the fifteenth day following the end of the reporting period. (l) Failure to meet any or all of the approved rules shall constitute noncompliance and may lead to temporary or permanent termination of funding consistent with IC 11-12-2-6. (m) Any program receiving state funding under IC 11-12 is subject to inspection by the commissioner of the department of correction or the commissioner's designee.