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Pretrial supervision software for the people a judge already agreed to release

A judge decides someone can go home. Then they sit in jail because the only option is a monitor they cannot pay for. Pretrial programs use RePath to make the release happen, at a cost the person can afford, in a way the court can defend, with staff who can run it.

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60%+fewer pretrial jail days in one large Missouri county's first year
RePath Centralized Communications showing officer web chat and automated court-date reminders for a pretrial caseload

Your Challenges

Managing a growing pretrial population with limited monitoring options. The gap between GPS and nothing is where most participants fall.

High FTA Rates

Individuals in pretrial miss court appearances, driving warrants and jail overcrowding.

Limited Monitoring Options

The choice is GPS ankle monitors or no monitoring at all. Nothing in between.

No Ongoing Risk Assessment

Risk is evaluated once at intake. No way to track evolving risk post-release.

Reminder Gaps

No systematic way to remind participants about court dates, check-ins, and obligations.

Automated pretrial workflow

From the bench to the first reminder without a device, a vendor, or a funding step.

Enrollment from the bench in about five minutes

The judge orders RePath as a condition of release. The person downloads the app on their own phone and is enrolled before they leave the courthouse. A Missouri pretrial administrator signs up a whole line of people in court in about five minutes. No hardware to fit, no install appointment, no vendor invoice.

Court date reminders that go out on their own

Once the court date is in RePath, reminders go out automatically by push notification and text, with the date, time, and courtroom. Staff do not make the calls. When a hearing moves, one update reaches everyone on the docket.

A delivery record the court can point to

Every reminder is logged with the time it was sent and delivered, so when someone misses court the program can show the notice went out. Preventing a missed court date costs about $10. A missed one costs the system about $2,850. In a randomized trial, automated reminders cut warrants for missed court dates by about 20%.

RePath Centralized Communications showing automated court-date reminders and the delivery record for a pretrial caseload

Pretrial tracking and supervision

What supervision looks like between release and the court date, for a program that has to run it with the staff it has.

Check-ins, zones, and a sanction ladder without hardware

Daily check-ins with a photo and location. Curfew windows. Exclusion zones on domestic cases that warn the person before the line. House arrest as a sanction, turned on from the bench the same day, which most courts had no way to run before. When a case needs more, the level goes up. When it holds, it comes back down.

Who has gone quiet, first thing in the morning

The administrator's day starts on the dashboard: who has not checked in, who moved, whose court date is this week. Impairment Risk flags likely use before a test, and three in four high flags that get tested come back positive. One pretrial administrator in a rural Missouri circuit runs about 70 people at a time this way.

Built for a court record

Every check-in, message, reminder, and location result is time-stamped and kept on the participant's record, so the file holds up when a release is questioned. RePath is designed to support CJIS security policy requirements, is SOC 2 Type II audited, and is hosted on AWS.

RePath Locate Now showing a pretrial participant's current location on the officer web view

How pretrial programs use RePath

Pretrial programs do not buy RePath to watch people. They buy it because a judge has already decided someone can go home, and the program has no way to make that happen that the person can afford, the court can defend, and the staff can run. Here is what changes.

People a judge has already agreed to release go home, instead of sitting in jail because they can't pay for hardware

In one large Missouri county, corrections staff sit down every week with the judge and the prosecutor's office and review about 20 cases. At least half go on RePath: people who cannot afford ankle monitors and would otherwise be sitting in jail. A rural Missouri circuit with a 55-bed jail was running at 64, over capacity all the time. Bond reform forced it to release people it had no money to supervise, so it built the pretrial program around RePath. The count came down to 33, and the prosecutor is the one who said it. A large Missouri county and the a rural Missouri circuit, in full.

RePath participant app showing today's check-in and next court date

Fewer people miss court, and the program can prove the reminder went out

A missed court date costs the system about $2,850. Preventing one costs about $10. A randomized trial found automated reminders cut warrants for missed court dates by about 20%. A rural Missouri pretrial administrator: "After two years of using RePath, our failures to appear are so far down, the judges are so surprised." The compliance supervisor in the large county calls reminders a big piece of what keeps people showing up for court. Illinois now requires two text reminders before every court appearance and a record that each was delivered, which a desk phone cannot produce.

RePath automated court-date reminders and the delivery record

It's ordered from the bench and live before the person leaves the courthouse

A pretrial services administrator in a Missouri circuit: "I sign people up in court, a line of them, and they're all done in five minutes." No device to fit, no vendor, no funding step. An Ohio judge set bond on four people in one day and wrote RePath into all four. One rural Missouri circuit reports 95% of its pretrial population on RePath; the other 5% are in residential rehab without a phone. Its prosecutor: they may not have a house, they may not have a car, but they have a phone. People don't leave their phones. If they do, we know. And agencies run email-only reporting for anyone without a smartphone.

RePath participant app after enrollment from the bench

It costs less than an ankle monitor, and the county owns nothing that can walk off

A rural Ohio chief probation officer: every lost ankle monitor was $2,500 the county ate, because the fee went onto court costs that never get paid. They have lost one rental phone in the life of the program. His judge prefers it: unlike the ankle monitors where it was just tracking, she likes that they can get eyes on people at all times. A rural Missouri pretrial administrator: "We do not have giant budgets for a bunch of ankle monitors like the big counties do. RePath does everything I want it to." The comparison, side by side.

RePath Locate Now on the officer web view, no hardware

The release is one the court can defend

A Missouri prosecutor: "With this app, we can assure victims that people are checking in. We can do exclusion and inclusion zones." The pretrial administrator in the same circuit puts zones on domestic cases: the zones give them a warning, and if they choose to keep going, they are choosing to go back to jail. The court runs house arrest as a sanction now, which it could not before. Its treatment court administrator: "You will be shocked how many people answer truthfully to the app. They will lie to your face in person and then use the app and tell the truth." When Impairment Risk flags someone as high and they get tested, three in four come back positive. Judges there were skeptical at the start. Now they think it's miraculous.

RePath People and Places map with exclusion zones

One administrator can run the caseload, and the notes write themselves

In a rural Missouri circuit, one pretrial administrator manages about 70 people at a time, and her morning starts on the dashboard: who hasn't checked in, who moved, whose court date is coming up. In a state department of corrections, one in five officers weren't confident in their own case notes before the pilot; after it, 85% ranked Visit Assist their most valuable feature. A pretrial supervisor there, one week in: "I absolutely love it, and I've been using it every chance I get. It has saved me so much time already." Across our agencies, officers get 8 to 10 hours a week back.

RePath IQ dashboard: who has not checked in and whose court date is this week

The phone flips from liability to accountability

A pretrial administrator to a participant: "Let's take that phone which was your way to get drugs and make that a way to help yourself." When everyone has to be at a hearing, one blast reaches every participant. Officers in a state pilot reported reaching people more often through chat, and some said they'd miss it if moved to an office without RePath. A participant, on finishing: "Each check-in reminded me I was one day closer to getting my life back."

RePath chat between a pretrial officer and a participant on a phone

And officers actually use it

A state department of corrections piloted across three offices, two of them pretrial. 560 people enrolled at a 70% voluntary adoption rate, and 86% of the officers told the state to go statewide. An officer pulled the paper report forms out of the lobby so people defaulted to the app, and the largest office copied her. The state signed a three-year statewide contract and funded it from positions it couldn't fill. One pretrial supervisor said she'd probably quit if the department didn't keep it. And a Missouri pretrial administrator who lost RePath to a budget cut: "We didn't realize how good we had it with RePath until we lost it."

RePath Visit Assist summary written from a recorded contact

A Day with RePath

Morning: Review Your Docket

Check your dashboard for today's court appearances. See which participants have been checking in and which have gone quiet.

Tools: RePath IQ
Mid-Morning: Send Reminders

Automated court date reminders go out. Participants receive automated texts with date, time, and location. No manual calls needed.

Tools: Centralized Communications
Afternoon: Check Risk Flags

Impairment Risk flags a participant showing concerning patterns. You schedule an immediate check-in before the next hearing.

Tools: Impairment Risk
End of Day: Document Everything

All interactions logged. Compliance reports ready for the court. Nothing falls through the cracks.

Tools: Visit Assist, RePath IQ

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The Platform Behind It

Centralized Communications keeps every pretrial conversation, text, call, automated reminders, in one secure, auditable thread.

RePath Centralized Communications desktop showing officer-participant message threads and automated reminders

Results from agencies like yours

8 to 10 hrs
back per officer per week, across our agencies
90%
less time on visit documentation with Visit Assist
150,000
jail days avoided in one large Missouri county's first year: 400 fewer people in jail on any given day, $3.9 million in state reimbursement
31%
drop in what the state pays the county for pretrial detention, before and after
58%
more per resident that Missouri counties without RePath bill the state for pretrial detention
3 months
without a single missed court date at one pretrial partner
125+
agencies nationwide, 50,000+ individuals supervised
25%
average officer capacity increase within 6 months

Recidivism in that county went down three years in a row: 24%, then 32%, then 36%, while the program grew from 67 people to more than 5,400. Missouri has more than 10,000 people on RePath across 22 circuits, including four of its five largest counties. Fewer people held, not less safe for it, and the staff time to run it.

What pretrial services professionals say

"We were at 64 before RePath, over capacity all the time. Now we are at 33."

Prosecuting attorneyRural Missouri circuit

"I sign people up in court, a line of them, and they're all done in five minutes."

Pretrial services administratorMissouri circuit

"The reminder piece is a big piece of what RePath does to make sure we have more people showing up for court. We would have a lot more people in jail if it weren't for that."

Corrections compliance supervisorLarge Missouri county

"We didn't realize how good we had it with RePath until we lost it. Support really spoiled us."

Pretrial administratorMissouri circuit that lost RePath to a budget cut

"The automated reminders alone have transformed our FTA rates."

Pretrial Services Director State pretrial services

"We finally have a middle ground between GPS and nothing."

Tools that power pretrial services

Centralized Communications

For court dates

Reminders with a delivery record, chat, and one blast to a whole docket.

GPS / Location Services

For zones and house arrest

Exclusion zones that warn first, and location the court can rely on.

Visit Assist

For the notes

Record the contact, get the note.

Impairment Risk

For the release decision

Three in four high flags that get tested come back positive.

RePath IQ

For docket management

See who's checking in and who's gone quiet.

Questions we get from pretrial services agencies

How fast can someone be enrolled in pretrial supervision?

In court, before they leave the building. The judge orders RePath as a condition of release, the person downloads the app on their own phone, and they are enrolled in about five minutes. A Missouri pretrial administrator does a whole line of people at once.

Do automated court date reminders reduce failures to appear?

Yes. A randomized trial found automated reminders cut warrants for missed court dates by about 20%. A rural Missouri pretrial administrator says failures to appear are so far down the judges are surprised. Every reminder is logged with a delivery time, so the program can show the notice went out.

Is RePath CJIS compliant?

RePath is designed to support CJIS security policy requirements, is SOC 2 Type II audited, and is hosted on AWS. Your agency's CJIS obligations depend on your state and what data you put in the system, and we will walk through them with your IT and security staff before you sign.

Can a judge order RePath as a condition of release?

Yes. Courts write RePath into bond conditions as a non-monetary condition, and the person is enrolled in court on their own phone before they leave the building.

What does it cost the participant?

Nothing. RePath is priced per officer, not per participant. Ankle monitoring, by comparison, runs about $300 a month in the agencies and courts we work with, often charged to the person.

Does it work in a rural county?

A rural Missouri prosecutor: "This does work in rural areas. If you question if it works where you are, it works in our rural area for almost everyone." That circuit has 95% of its pretrial population on RePath.

Run your pretrial docket on the phone they already have

A 20-minute call: your jail count, your monitor budget, and what changes when release does not depend on who can pay. All the benefits of modern supervision for 1/100th the cost of incarceration.

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