South Carolina Code 24-13-1520. Definitions
(1) "Department" means, in the case of a juvenile offender, the Department of Juvenile Justice and, in the case of an adult offender, the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, the Department of Corrections, and any other law enforcement agency created by law.
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 24-13-1520
- Approved electronic monitoring device: means a device approved by the department which is primarily intended to record and transmit information as to the defendant's presence or nonpresence in the home. See South Carolina Code 24-13-1520
- Court: means a circuit, family, magistrate's, or municipal court having criminal or juvenile jurisdiction to sentence an individual to incarceration for a violation of law, the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, the Board of Juvenile Parole, and the Department of Corrections. See South Carolina Code 24-13-1520
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- Department: means , in the case of a juvenile offender, the Department of Juvenile Justice and, in the case of an adult offender, the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, the Department of Corrections, and any other law enforcement agency created by law. See South Carolina Code 24-13-1520
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Participant: means an inmate/offender placed into an electronic monitoring program or into some other suitable program which provides supervision and/or monitoring in the community. See South Carolina Code 24-13-1520
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
(2) "Court" means a circuit, family, magistrate’s, or municipal court having criminal or juvenile jurisdiction to sentence an individual to incarceration for a violation of law, the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, the Board of Juvenile Parole, and the Department of Corrections.
(3) "Approved electronic monitoring device" means a device approved by the department which is primarily intended to record and transmit information as to the defendant‘s presence or nonpresence in the home.
An approved electronic monitoring device may record or transmit: oral or wire communications or an auditory sound; visual images; or information regarding the offender’s activities while inside the offender’s home. These devices are subject to the required consent as set forth in § 24-13-1550.
An approved electronic monitoring device may be used to record a conversation between the participant and the monitoring device, or the participant and the person supervising the participant, solely for the purpose of identification and not for the purpose of eavesdropping or conducting any other illegally intrusive monitoring.
(4) "Home detention" means the confinement of a person convicted or charged with a crime to his place of residence under the terms and conditions established by the department.
(5) "Participant" means an inmate/offender placed into an electronic monitoring program or into some other suitable program which provides supervision and/or monitoring in the community.