Electronic Home Monitoring

Electronic Home Monitoring is a service provided by Minnesota Monitoring that combines comprehensive case management, thorough program planning, reliable monitoring equipment, timely reporting, and a professional staff to monitor, test, and manage all types of offenders.

Minnesota Monitoring contracts with a variety of agencies to provide electronic monitoring, drug and alcohol testing, case management, field services, and much more. We have proven success managing these services while ensuring an effective community safety program. We also offer several related additional services.

How Electronic Home Monitoring is used:

Electronic Home Monitoring

Monitoring Center
Our monitoring center is located at our main office in Golden Valley, Minnesota. We are conveniently located at 2300 Nevada Avenue North, just minutes out of downtown Minneapolis.  Our monitoring center is staffed 24 hours per day, 365 days per year to provide immediate response to violations, inquires, and technical support. Criminal justice professionals staff our monitoring center with experience in the supervision, monitoring, and management of all types of offenders.  Each time an offender or agent contacts our monitoring center, the caller will be given extensive assistance with every inquiry.

Case Management
We maintain extensive files on each program participant as well as offer the following services:  risk/needs assessment, offender orientation and installation, detailed logging of daily activity, written violation and termination reports, verification on all authorized out-time, program contracts, individualized programmatic assessments, and urinalysis testing when required.

Violations
Violations are handled swiftly and thoroughly. Immediate or next day notification is offered. Moreover, as with all of our programs, adaptable violation notification can be implemented based on offender risk or officer preference.  In addition, written violation reports are provided, by facsimile or e-mail, within 24 hours.

Staff
All staff at Minnesota Monitoring including monitoring technicians, case managers, field officers, and any other staff that work directly or indirectly with offenders, are required to comply and participate in our progressive training programs and specified exercises. We maintain high work product standards and in as such recruit employees with criminal justice or social services degrees and experience.

Equipment

House Arrest
EMS 2000i: Actively monitors offenders using a transmitter and receiver. The transmitter is installed on the offenders ankle and the receiver is attached to the offenders telephone line.  The receiver reports when the offender leaves/returns, curfew violations, and equipment status to our monitoring center.
Cellular EMS 2000i: Based on EMS 2000i proven capabilities and systems' features, this system offers the same benefits but uses cellular technology rather than a landline

Alcohol Monitoring
Mitsubishi MEMS 2000: Combines continuous signaling radio frequency, visual verification, and remote breath alcohol testing technologies in one fully integrated unit. Moreover, the highly accurate breath alcohol testing will not respond to ketones or hydrocarbons and offers an accuracy rate of +/- .05 percent. It gathers a deep lung sample to provide an accurate confirmation of alcohol ingestion, and renders a quantitative alcohol level, not just pass or fail.

Global Positioning
Star System: The Star System takes electronic monitoring outdoors, enabling program operators to apply tighter survellance in cases that require it.  This system continually tracks the monitored offenders in real-time, stores, and processes their positioning information.  It also offers 24/7 location reports, exact path surveillance, restricted zone alerts, and scheduled zone management. While at home, the offender’s presence is actively monitored by the integrated RF monitoring system. When leaving their homes, the personal locating unit automatically acquires GPS data and activates continuous location data collection.

Voice Verification
Voice Verification uses an individual’s voice signature, based on an acoustical recognition principle, to ascertain their identity. This system supports all languages, local accents and dialects, including native and non-native speakers.  The individual voice signature is based on distinct speech characteristics, which are identifiable regardless of the languages or the accents in use.  Voice Verification can also be used to automatically verify an offenders presence or absence from a certain location, following an alert received from the RF based electronic monitoring system.

Multiple Client Monitoring Applications

Group Monitoring
GMU 2000i: Enables close supervision of multi-client groups in settings that do not accommodate a fixed installation of monitoring systems, reducing officers' workload. The GMU 2000i operates as a stand-alone or in combination with a PC. The system consists of a light, easy-to-use mobile Group Monitoring Unit (GMU), offenders' tags and an optional Windows based PC interface

Area and Perimeter Monitoring
AMS 2000i: The AMS 2000i is a multi-client, broad area monitoring system, enabling real-time restricted zones supervision. AMS 2000i is designed for wireless monitoring of groups and/or individuals in various types of buildings and their surroundings or in set open environments. The system can be installed in any indoors or outdoors geographical setting of every size and shape. The system's uniquely designed wireless network of data extension units can bypass physical obstacles and eliminate blind spots.

For more information, please contact kburkey@mnmonitoring.com or visit www.elmotech.com.