(A) There is hereby established a Lake County Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee.
(B) The actions of the Committee shall be advisory in nature except where the action is authorized by either Lake County Council ordinance, an order of the Lake Superior Court Criminal or County Divisions, or required by state or federal law.
(C) The purpose of the Committee shall be to:
(1) Develop a program to implement a countywide approach to safely maintain the Lake County Jail inmate population;
(2) Coordinate the existing programs used by criminal justice agencies both pre-trial and post-trial to increase utilization of the programs by the courts in order to reduce the length of confinement for appropriate inmates;
(3) Make recommendations for policy, program selection, and guidelines to be used by the criminal justice agencies; and
(4) Establish policy for the implementation of a criminal justice management information system on the composition of the jail population, and make the information available to all county-wide criminal justice agencies on a daily basis.
(Prior Code, § 31.120) (Ord. 1134A, passed 9-6-1994; Ord. 1230A, passed 8-13-2002; Ord. 1230A-1, passed 10-8-2002; Ord. 1268A, passed 10-11-2005; Ord. 1387B, passed 8-11-2015; Ord. 1421A, passed 6-12-2018)