Computer Use Agreement
Defendant/Juvenile: By checking below, the above named
defendant/juvenile indicates he/she understands he/she has the
right to refuse consent to the items contained herein and that
the defendant/juvenile voluntarily agrees as follows: computer
access to the Internet may pose significant risk of re-offense if
not properly managed and the undersigned defendant/juvenile
specifically agrees to be fully compliant with the following
conditions:
1.) You shall not possess or let another individual
possess an unauthorized computer in your home. (unauthorized
means any computer that is not being actively monitored by the
monitoring service)
2.) You are permitted to use computer systems at your place of
employment for employment purposes only.
3.) You are permitted to use computer systems at the educational
facility where you are enrolled for education-related purposes
only.
4.) You must obtain prior written approval from the Supervising
Officer/Designee to use an electronic bulletin board system,
Internet relay chat channel, DCC chat channel, Instant Messaging
(e.g.AIM, Yahoom, MSNchat, MySpace chat etc..), newsgroup,
usegroup, Peer to Peer (e.g. Napster, Gnutella, Freenet,
Bearshare, etc.), or any site-based email which provides some
measure of anonymity. Use of these types of sites, or programs
are strictly prohibited with express written consent from the
Probation Department or Probation Officer.
5.) You understand and agree that using the computer for any
purpose which might further sexual activity is strictly
prohibited. Such use includes, but is not limited to, the
following: possession of sexually explicit material in any form;
sexually related A chat or email exchange; visiting or joining A
chat room which contains sexually explicit conversations;
visiting/viewing sexually explicit material on web sites;
websites that contain nudity or sexually explicit materials;
downloading binary files, UUE files, MIME files, AVI files, MPG
files, Real Player files, Windows Media Files, digital images in
any format, text files, or multi-media material that is sexual in
nature; or visiting and/or subscribing to usegroups, newsgroups,
or list servers which contain sexual content.
6.) You agree that you shall be prohibited from possessing or
viewing certain materials related to, or part of, the grooming
cycle for your crime. Such materials include, but are not limited
to, the following: Images of your victim, stories or images
related to your crime or similar crimes, images which depict
individuals similar to your victims (e.g. children), stories
written about or for individuals similar to your victim,
Materials focused on the culture of your victim (e.g. children's
shows or web sites).
7.) You agree that you shall be prohibited from using any form of
encryption, cryptography, steganography, compression, password
protected files and/or other method that might limit access to or
change the appearance of data and/or images without prior written
approval from the Supervising Officer/Designee. If, for work
purposes, password protection is required on any system or files
used by you, that you will provide the password upon request of
Supervising Officer/Designee.
8.) You agree that you shall be prohibited from avoiding the
creation of, or altering or destroying records of computer use
without Supervising Officer/Designee’s approval. This
includes, but is not limited to, deleting or removing browser
history data regardless of its age, the possession of software or
items designed to boot into RAM, kernels, alter or wipe a
computer media, defeat forensic software, or block monitoring
software. This also includes a prohibition against restoring a
computer to a previous state or the reinstallation of operating
systems without the consent of the Probation Officer.
9.) You voluntarily consent to unannounced examination by
Supervising Officer/Designee of any and all computer(s) and/or
electronic devices(s) to which you have access for the limited
purpose of detecting content prohibited by this document,
conditions of probation, or court order. This consent to examine
includes access to all data and/or images stored on hard disks,
Zip Disks, floppy diskettes, CD ROMs, optical disks, magnetic
tape and/or any other storage media whether installed within a
device or removable and separate from the actual computer
device.
10.) You will provide the Supervising Officer/Designee with a
current list of all equipment used or possessed by you ,
including back-up systems, and external storage devices and
media. You will keep this list current.
11.) You agree to install, or allow to be installed at you own
expense, equipment and/or software to monitor or limit computer
use; That you have no expectations of privacy regarding computer
use or information stored on the computer if monitoring software
is installed and understand and agree that information gathered
by said monitoring software may be used against you in subsequent
court actions regarding your computer use and conditions of
probation.
12.) You agree to be fully responsible for all material, data,
images and information found on your computer, or any devices
subject to monitoring/search at all times.
13.) You specifically agree and voluntarily consent that your
computer may be examined and/or searched at any time, announced
or unannounced, by Supervising Officer/Designee to verify
compliance with these special conditions of supervision. You
understand and agree that your computer, related equipment, and
storage devices are subject to seizure by Supervising
Officer/Designee if, during an announced or unannounced
examination of the computer or other media, the Supervising
Officer/Designee finds any evidence of computer use prohibited by
this document.
14.) You shall not use or own any device which allows internet
access other than authorized by the Probation Department and your
Probation Officer. This includes but is not limited to, satellite
dishes, PDA’s, Electronic Games, Web-Television, Internet
appliances, and cellular/digital phones.
15.) You shall not have another individual access the Internet on
your behalf to obtain files or information which you are
restricted from accessing yourself.
16.) You shall submit any and all computers and/or devices which
allows internet access within your residence for monitoring,
which are owned or used by you. All of these computers/devices
are required to be monitored under the scope of this agreement,
and are subject to random searches by the Probations Department,
Probation Officer, or his/her Designee.
17.) You are strictly prohibited from purchasing, playing,
registering, or participating in any online game without express
written consent from the Probation Department, or Probation
Officer.
18.) You are responsible for any and all cost incurred for
monitoring services. This includes but is not limited to the
initial preview of your computer systems, the licensing of
software used by the monitoring service, the monthly monitoring
fees, taxes, and any fees incurred from doing an onsite
examination that is requested by the Probation Department or
Probation Officer. These fees are set out in the Fees schedule
attached to this agreement.
19.) You agree to pay your monitoring fees which are due on the
25th of the month prior to the period you are being monitored
for. You also agree to pay any additional fees such as licensing
fees and the initial benchmarking fees prior to monitoring.
Your designated computer will be monitored by
REMOTECOM. It is your sole responsibility to notify any user of
the conditions of this agreement.
Neither you or any one who uses the designated computer has a
reasonable expectation of privacy while using this system.
This includes contacts with lawyers, doctors, business, and
clergy members. By using this system you agree to the terms of
this agreement.
If you have any question you can contact:
RemoteCOM (866)776-0731
www.remote-com.com
