November 30, 2006 – 13 pages
By this appearance date, Richard had been on Day Reporting for 8 months. Day Reporting required him to be his apartment 24 hours a day unless he obtained prior permission to be elsewhere. Each week he had to fill out a form listing where he was going to be hour-by-hour for the next week. He could only be at home, babysitting for his sister, or doing yard work or mowing at one of his landlord’s vacant lots on the west side of Rockford. His Day Reporting counselor kept strict control over his movements. If his sister wanted him to babysit so she could attend a function at some time other than the usual weekly schedule; his counselor would typically deny it. Whenever he was out at the vacant lots he had to keep an eye out for a car with an officer who would drive by to confirm that he was at there at the time he said he would be. He had to ensure that the officer saw him so that a claim of violation would not occur. Richard also had to be available by phone 24 hours per day and appear in person whenever someone came to his apartment to check on him.
Richard requested use of his landlord’s phone and her apartment address for court and Day Reporting because of the stringent control over his movements and because he wanted to avoid any chance of a violation occurring. He requested his landlord to witness all in-person contacts the police made of him at the duplex and to monitor all phone contacts he received. Richard brought all the difficulties he experienced to Clark’s attention and several times requested that Clark request the court to remove him from Day Reporting. Here, Clark finally did so, and even the court remarks on how long Richard has had to be on Day Reporting during this case.
