Illinois Compiled Statutes 730 ILCS 5 Unified Code of Corrections. Section 5-8A-4

    (730 ILCS 5/5-8A-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 1005-8A-4)

    Sec. 5-8A-4. Program description. The supervising authority may promulgate rules that prescribe reasonable guidelines under which an electronic home detention program shall operate. These rules shall include but not be limited to the following:

    (A) The participant shall remain within the interior premises or within the property boundaries of his or her residence at all times during the hours designated by the supervising authority. Such instances of approved absences from the home may include but are not limited to the following:

        (1) working or employment approved by the court or

    traveling to or from approved employment;

        (2) unemployed and seeking employment approved for

    the participant by the court;

        (3) undergoing medical, psychiatric, mental health

    treatment, counseling, or other treatment programs approved for the participant by the court;

        (4) attending an educational institution or a program

    approved for the participant by the court;

        (5) attending a regularly scheduled religious service

    at a place of worship;

        (6) participating in community work release or

    community service programs approved for the participant by the supervising authority; or

        (7) for another compelling reason consistent with the

    public interest, as approved by the supervising authority.

    (B) The participant shall admit any person or agent designated by the supervising authority into his or her residence at any time for purposes of verifying the participant's compliance with the conditions of his or her detention.

    (C) The participant shall make the necessary arrangements to allow for any person or agent designated by the supervising authority to visit the participant's place of education or employment at any time, based upon the approval of the educational institution employer or both, for the purpose of verifying the participant's compliance with the conditions of his or her detention.

    (D) The participant shall acknowledge and participate with the approved electronic monitoring device as designated by the supervising authority at any time for the purpose of verifying the participant's compliance with the conditions of his or her detention.

    (E) The participant shall maintain the following:

        (1) a working telephone in the participant's home;

        (2) a monitoring device in the participant's home, or

    on the participant's person, or both; and

        (3) a monitoring device in the participant's home and

    on the participant's person in the absence of a telephone.

    (F) The participant shall obtain approval from the supervising authority before the participant changes residence or the schedule described in subsection (A) of this Section.

    (G) The participant shall not commit another crime during the period of home detention ordered by the Court.

    (H) Notice to the participant that violation of the order for home detention may subject the participant to prosecution for the crime of escape as described in Section 5-8A-4.1.

    (I) The participant shall abide by other conditions as set by the supervising authority.

(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

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