Lake County
Community Corrections
Serving you and your community since 1984.
2600 W. 93rd Ave.
Crown Point, IN 46307

MISSION STATEMENT

TO PROVIDE QUALITY, COST-EFFECTIVE ALTERNATIVES TO OVERCROWDED CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES, AND TO DEVELOP PROGRAMS WHICH ENCOURAGE THE ACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF COURTS, COMMUNITIES, VICTIMS, AND OFFENDERS.
As a county agency under the authority of the Lake County Board of Commissioners, and operating under the auspices of the Indiana Department of Correction, Lake County Community Corrections contributes to the local criminal justice community the following

SERVICES
Electronically Assisted Intensive Supervision
For Adults and Juveniles
Low risk, non-violent offenders whose crimes are of a more serious nature are ordered by our local courts to serve their sentences under highly structured supervision which includes 24 hr/day electronic surveillance, home and work site visits by staff, and an individualized but mandatory program of rehabilitative and risk reduction activities.
Residential / Work Release
For Adult Males
Those offenders who are felt by the local courts to be in need of incarceration but capable of rehabilitation in the community are sentenced to the Kimbrough Work Program. This facility provides the institutional supervision needed to assure community safety as well as case managed participation in rehabilitative programs.

Advisory Board
To provide Community Corrections with a unique and comprehensive perspective on the criminal justice system, Indiana statute provides that all local operations will be guided and overseen by a board that is representative of the entire spectrum of the community, including:
* the county sheriff
* mayor of the largest city
* a public defender
* a probation officer
* the prosecuting attorney
* two county judges
* a victim of crime
* an educational administrator
* the director of county welfare
* the juvenile court judge
* a county councilperson
* a mental health administrator
* four lay persons
* representative of the
county's ethnicity
Board officers: Paul Panther, Chairman Hon. Thomas P. Stefaniak, Jr., Vice-Chairman
As a charter member of the Indiana Association of Community Corrections Act Counties, Lake County has been an active participant in the correctional affairs of this state since the association's formation in 1984. I.A.C.C.A.C. is devoted to the promotion and facilitation of the professional identity, development and enhancement of community based corrections, and is recognized by the Indiana Department of Correction as the only sanctioned representative of Community Corrections Act programming.

Lake County, through its association membership, has been instrumental in the development and maintenance of professional guidelines and in constructive, community empowering legislative reform.

Contact us
LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS
Kellie Bittorf, Director Mark R. Murphy, Director of Operations Gary Paarlberg, Director of Programs Leah Johnson,Budget and Personnel Director

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