Adult Probation Services
Therapeutic Intensive Monitoring (TIM) Court
In July 2005, the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit established the Drug Court component of the Therapeutic Intensive Monitoring (TIM) Court and, in January 2007, Mental Health Court was started. The mission of the TIM Program is to reduce crime, enhance public safety, and reduce jail populations by rehabilitating drug addicts and mentally ill offenders whose mental illness is the primary reason for their criminality. The mission is accomplished through a comprehensive and intensive therapeutic program. Each component of TIM Court has an established multidisciplinary team consisting of treatment professionals, probation officials, judges, assistant state’s attorneys, and assistant public defenders. Depending on the phase of the program, a defendant can be required to report to court up to once per week. The services provided are extensive and incrementally reduced as the client stabilizes and progresses through the program. Before termination from the program, a long-term aftercare plan is developed to assist the defendant in maintaining a crime-free lifestyle for the remainder of the defendant’s life.
The current target population for Drug Court includes offenders who reside in Lake County, are before the court on a class 2, 3, or 4 non-violent felony charge, and are deemed drug dependent but amenable for treatment. For Mental Health Court, eligibility is dependant on Axis I mental illness diagnosis that is primary to the defendant’s criminal conduct, consent of the victim, non-violent history, legal residency, and amenability for treatment. Referral sources include defense attorneys, prosecutors, judges, police, probation officers, and the Lake County Health Department.
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