Monroe County Courts, Indiana Chambers Communication Rules

CRITICAL

A designated Probation Department employee must notify the Court as soon as possible, and no later than 12 hours after a listed monitoring-device or location event, unless the expedited rule in section G applies.

Except as provided in section G. below, a designated employee of the Probation Department must provide notification to the Court as soon as possible, but not later than twelve (12) hours, after: 1. The monitoring device of a tracked individual suffers an unexplained or undocumented loss of communication with the employee, and the employee is unable to verify the tracked individual's presence at an approved location by using a backup verification method (contacting the tracked individual by phone); 2. A tracked individual enters a prohibited exclusion zone; or 3. A tracked individual removes, disables, or otherwise interferes with a monitoring device.

CRITICAL

Contact

Phone to duty judge

After regular business hours, on weekends, or on legal holidays, the facility must telephone the on-call mental health duty judge about the pending application.

After regular business hours, weekends, or legal holidays, the facility shall submit the Application via e-mail to the on-call mental health judge and telephone the on-call mental health duty judge to notify them of the pending Application.

CRITICAL

For the specified violent-crime cases, a designated Probation Department employee must notify the Court as soon as possible, and no later than 15 minutes after an event listed in section F.

A designated employee of the Probation Department must provide notification to the Court as soon as possible, but not later than fifteen (15) minutes, after the occurrence of an event described in sections F.1. through F. 3. ABOVE if the tracked individual who is placed on electronic monitoring due to being charged with or convicted of: 1. A crime of violence (as defined in IC 35-50-1-2(a)); or 2. A crime of domestic or sexual violence (as defined in IC 16-18-2-88.5).

CRITICAL

The Court Reporter must notify the Clerk when reassignment is needed, in accordance with District Rule DR 20-TR79-000.

The Court Reporter shall notify the Clerk of the need for reassignment in accordance with District Rule DR 20-TR79-000.

WARNING

Probation Department staff must not disclose pending-case information to the media; media access must be through court personnel and comply with the cited rules.

The staff of the Probation Department shall not disclose any information regarding a pending case to the media. The media shall have access to information through court personnel in compliance with both the Indiana Rules of Court: Access To Court Record Rule 5 and the Code of Judicial Conduct, CANON 3, B. #10.

INFO

Attorneys may coordinate courtroom use for rehearsals during working hours through the Office of Court Services.

The use of courtrooms for rehearsals by attorneys during working hours may be coordinated through the Office of Court Services.