The Supreme Court shall establish rules pursuant to § 16-3-1 for the programs consistent with the following components, modeled after the national HOPE court initiative:
- (1) Involvement and commitment of criminal justice officials including judges, state's attorneys, defense attorneys, law enforcement, court services officers, and treatment providers;
- (2) Eligibility criteria focused on offenders with a high risk to reoffend, without consideration of the current offense;
- (3) Judicial involvement in setting and communicating to the probationer program expectations and consequences for noncompliance;
- (4) Frequent, effective, and randomized drug and or alcohol testing;
- (5) Swift, certain, and proportional sanctions for noncompliance with program conditions;
- (6) Swift and certain warrant service for absconding; and
- (7) Compilation, evaluation, and publicly reported program results.
Source: SL 2013, ch 101 , § 10, eff. Jan. 1, 2014; SL 2016, ch 113 , § 2.