ABOUT US

ProTrac Development Inc. Is an Arkansas company, providing full service offender management to the judicial and education industries.

ProTrac provides offender funded electronic supervision, probation and fine collection services.

ProTrac’s highly experienced staff and allied consultants will fully assess design and implement programs that meet both budget and punitive needs.

Katherine R Stringer President of ProTrac Development Inc. is a court services professional with more than ten years of experience in home monitoring implication and development. Ms. Stringer was instrumental in the startup of the Los Angeles County monitoring program in 1992, creating the operational training manual and case management procedures that are currently being use in Los Angeles, Pulaski County and across the nation.

William W. Watt the company’s council brings a unique prospective to company operations because of his wide varied background in the legal system. Mr. Watt served as Little Rock Municipal Judge for ten years and has served as special Judge in numerous other courts since beginning his law practice in 1998.

Other experienced staff relate directly to computer and website management and design. Those individuals have prior criminal justice experience and significant knowledge of judicial challenges facing the courts today.

ELECTRONIC MONITORING

ProTrac’s monitoring programs have been created in order to provide a viable alternative to incarceration and help alleviate the current overcrowding of the local county jail facilities. ProTrac’s monitoring program is an offender paid alternative for both sentenced and pretrial defendants.

WHAT IS ELECTRONIC MONITORING?

Electronic monitoring is an electronic form of supervision to verify that a program participant is in their home during a specific time period. A transmitter is fitted to the participant’s wrist or ankle and worn 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and a reporting unit is installed on the participant’s home phone. The transmitter sends a continuous signal to the receiving unit and reports all transmitter and receiver activity, i.e. leaving or returning within range of the receiver, tampering with the transmitter, unplugging the receiver, etc. The WATCH PATROL unit can also be set to initiate random tracking of the participant. At random or specific times throughout the day, the wrist unit will beep and alert the participant to call the monitoring center. By pressing the watch face and holding the unit to the phone, the wrist unit will transmit and confirm the participants’ identity, tamper condition and location.

Home detention is an alternative sanction for low-risk, non-violent offenders who do not have an extensive prior history and are not considered a threat to the community. The requirements for ProTrac’s electronic monitoring depends on the level of supervision required.

ProTrac’s monitoring program is fully offender funded. The participant’s pay a daily fee for supervision on the program.

COLLECTIONS

ProTrac Development, Inc. is uniquely staffed to carry out collections efforts without added expense to the court. Further, ProTrac’s aggressive legal collections effort on “stale” accounts will provide unanticipated revenue to the court operation without additional court time or staff cost.

Collection services for Municipal and Circuit court cases can involve three areas; the first is restitution by defendants for damages suffered by an injured party. The second involves the collection of current assessed fines and court costs from a defendant whose case has been fully adjudicated. The third area relates to the aforementioned “aged or stale” accounts and requires significant collection activity.

Fee schedules for collection activities will be dictated by the category of items to be collected, paying particular attention to the needs of victims and maximizing the revenue stream to the court.

PROBATION

ProTrac has a customized probation service that accommodates the needs of the courts. We are offender funded, and are thorough in our follow up of court orders.

When a participant is ordered to ProTrac probation, the case manager will review the court order to determine the supervision requirements and length of probation sentence.

The case manager will meet with each probationer at least one time per month to review the probationers’ compliance with the court order. The case manager will check the number of community service hours completed; the type and number of classes completed. (i.e. Domestic Violence, DWI, AA Meetings, etc.), as well as determine if the participant has committed additional crimes that may affect their probation status.

A participant can be placed on probation more than one time and by more than one court. ProTrac will coordinate case information so as to not duplicate services. ProTrac will only deny probation services for participants who have previously failed and/or refuse to comply with the conditions set by the court.

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