HomeMy WebLinkAboutLARIMER COUNTY COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS FACILITY - SITE PLAN ADVISORY REVIEW - 19-03 - CORRESPONDENCE - OTHER JURISDICTIONS (3)University, Probation, Parole and Sheriffs Department. An extensive psychosexual report is
Included In the evaluation process completed by treatment providers approved by the Colorado Sex
Offender Management Board. All sex offenders must participate in offense specific treatment with an
approved Provider and submit to regular polygraph and plethysmographs. Global Positioning
System (GPS) ankle monitors can be used on any offender considered to be a high risk giving staff
Information on all locations, specific streets traveled and rate of speed for all movement in the
community as well as letting us know if traveling in areas designated as off limits. Having a pick up
location along Riverside during rush hour traffic would actually divert travel away from Rivendell
School as the designated drop off or pick up site can be much farther up Riverside.
Topic: Extent
Number: 36 Created: 6/5/2003
Regarding Extent: In a May 6th letter from Babs Cornell to Rob Helmick, it is explained that a pool van pick up
point will be established somewhere along Riverside Avenue for residents who would normally travel to the
facility during evening rush hour. Can you provide more detailed information of how this works? It is not clear
how a resident getting a ride to or from work will use this Riverside location. Do the residents walk or bicycle to
the pick-up point? Is the pick-up point a place where a County operated shuttle picks up the residents to take
them to work, or is it a place where individual residents make private arrangements to be picked up by co-
workers at this Riverside location? Is there a process that will be put in place to prevent a resident who is getting
a ride back to the facility after work (during the evening rush hour) from being dropped off at the facility rather
than the Riverside drop-off point? Please provide clarification.
Response: Clarification was sought about operating a shuttle to transport clients to and from the facility
to a designated point along Riverside during rush hour traffic. The purpose of this would be to get .
residents past the Timberline and Prospect intersections to reduce traffic flow in that area. Clients
leaving the facility would be dropped off at a designated site along Riverside where they could access
public transportation from busses, have prearranged rides meet them, walk or possibly ride bikes with a
bike rack fitted to the shuttle vans. Vans could pick up clients from the designated point every 15 to 20
minutes during rush hour and transport them back to the facility. Staff shuttling the clients could keep
records of which clients were shuttled. Any client signing in to the facility during rush hour times and
not listed as being shuttled would need to have been approved to not be shuttled for a specific reason or
could face sanctions for not using this service. One possible location for dropping off or picking up
clients could be at the parking lot adjacent to the Vineyard Church but across the street and across
Riverside from the Coloradoan. The facility program manager has been a long-term member of that
church and could ask permission to use their parking lot for this purpose during rush hour only. The
spot would be closer to bus routes on Lemay and would be far from schools such as Rivendell.
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Larimer County's
Response to Location and Extent Comments
7/1/03
ISSUES:
Department: Current Planning Issue Contact: Troy Jones
Topic: Location
Number: 37 Created: 6/5/2003
Regarding Location: There are several schools that may be impacted by this application. Rivendell School is
located at the northeast comer of Prospect and Riverside, and serves children from pre -Kindergarten to 6th
grade. If half -way house residents will be walking or bicycling to the Riverside pick-up location, they will likely be
walking along this school's property in -route. Will any of the half -way house residents be potentially walking in
front of the school, and if so, is there any assurance that such pedestrians will not be convicted child predators?
If there is this chance, we strongly advise against the Riverside Avenue drop-off/pick-up concept. Liberty
Common School is located just east of the existing corrections facility (south of Advanced Energy). It has over
500 students, and serves children from Kindergarten through 9th grade. Also, Seven Oaks academy is one
block north of the proposed facility. Seven Oaks offers preschool and full day kindergarten, as well as music and
gymnastics classes to older children. Will any of the half -way house residents be allowed to walk around the
neighborhood at will? If so, this is potentially a very serious conflict that will need to be addressed. Please
clarify the extent to which the residents will be prevented from interacting with any of the children at any of these
schools.
Response: This topic addresses concerns regarding to what extent Community Corrections clients
would be walking or bicycling in proximity to nearby schools including Rivendell School, Seven Oaks
Academy and Liberty Common School.
• Community Corrections staff have a high degree of control over client movement in the community
with the ability to dictate specific routes of travel and modes of transportation. There are a number
of community locations clients are prohibited from going to and adding traveling directly in front of
Rivendell School, Seven Oaks Academy and Liberty Common School to this list of off limits
locations would not be a problem.
• Liberty School and Seven Oaks Academy are directly East of the facility site and there are no
Important reasons for clients to travel past those locations without using alternate routes
designated by staff.
• Rivendell School borders Prospect and Riverside both of which are major routes of travel to
Downtown Fort Collins. We would not have a problem restricting clients traveling by bike or on foot
to the opposite side of the street from Rivendell School at all times. Both Prospect and Riverside are
4 lane roads with center lanes or medians offering a wide berth from the school for people traveling
across the street.
• Clients are never allowed to walk around the neighborhood at will. All clients are signed out of the
facility by staff with a specific destination, mode of transportation and specific allowable times to
reach their destination. if we have concerns about risk or accountability with specific clients we
often require them to call when arriving at or leaving their employment, treatment or pass location.
Pass locations are each approved in advance by case management and must have a phone. Clients
are not allowed at any pass location without a phone for more than 3 hours. Clients are only allowed
to sign out to look for work, employment, treatment or church in the first month of the program.
After that pass time is increased incrementally as clients demonstrate Increasing responsibility. Any
client with unaccountable time in the community in excess of 30 minutes faces a major write up with
a range of sanctions from 14 to 21 days restriction from pass time and specific amounts of work
around the facility to negative termination from the program. Unaccountable time less than 30
minutes would also be sanctioned with up to 7 days restriction from pass time and designated
amounts of work around the facility.
Speaking with Lee Schafer of City of Fort Collins Police Services there are approximately 160 sex
offenders registered in the city of Fort Collins. Larimer County Community Corrections currently
supervises only 6 sex offenders who receive strict supervision and who staff have a high degree of
controll over. Sex offenders are carefully screened by an internal selections committee and must
also be approved by our Advisory Board which is comprised of experienced community members
including representatives from the District Attorney's Office, (Cont.) (Cont.) Public Defenders Office,
City of Fort Collins and Estes Park police officers,(Cont.) Poudre School District, Colorado State
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