The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee heard HB 1034 sponsored by Sen. Glick on home detention matters.
The bill:
- eliminates the requirement that a period of home detention ordered as a condition of probation must be at least 60 days;
- allows a court to approve activities for an offender that do not require the offender to be confined to the offender’s home at all times;
- provides that an offender must maintain a working telephone, cellular telephone, or other wireless or cellular communications device in the offender’s home as a condition of being on home detention.
The bill passed 7-0.
Read the bill at http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1034.