Board approves contract for forensic monitoring of inmates
YOUNGSTOWN
The Forensic Psychiatric Center of Northeast Ohio Inc. will provide services for Mahoning County jail inmates.
The Mahoning County Health and Recovery Board on Monday approved a $17,028 contract for the Forensic Psychiatric Center in Austintown to conduct forensic monitoring of about 12 to 15 individuals currently on conditional release.
The costs include staff’s salary, time, and travel to incorporate Mahoning County as the center already operates in Astabula, Columbiana and Trumbull counties. The costs are based on last year’s monitoring budget.
Monitoring would include face-to-face contact with those acquitted by not guilty by reason of insanity and community providers, completing community risk assessments, writing reports and sample journal entries, various treatment team meetings, hearings, and phone consultations from case managers to court personnel.
The monitoring would also include a two-year, continued-commitment evaluations that are completed by the center’s psychologist.
Other highlights from Monday’s board meeting include Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine hosting a planning meeting to reduce drug abuse in Mahoning County at the Newport Branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on May 28.
The next board meeting will take place at 5 p.m. on June 22.