Whilst the content of the series rapidly disappeared from memory, the image of a bustling, active
probation officer remained.
In another part of town, the
probation officers visited Elizabeth Leonard.
Service coordination gives
probation officers the support they need to meet the mission: provide effective, individualized services to the youths in OJJ's care and custody.
The
probation officer then examines the submitted cards for completion, verifies the information with the organization(s) if necessary, and calculates the running total number of hours of community service completed for each client.
Brown said he returned a phone call from a
probation officer regarding Schaffer's sentencing and answered questions.
It would make a magistrate, rather than the
probation officer, the judge of how much supervision probationers need and would foreclose quick action by the department when it learns of possible probation violations.
Often, the challenge lies in how a single
probation officer can alter a probationer's environment.
More importantly, the Chicago Police Department detailed cops to juvenile probation work, assigning roughly one police
probation officer (PPO) to each district.
In some States, the jobs of parole officer and
probation officer are combined.
When Jonathan took his mom's car again, in June 1999, she turned him in once more, and he was arrested on several probation violations, including failing to keep appointments, curfew violations, positive drug screens, and not doing his community service, according to court testimony from his
probation officer, Chris Cagle.
The federal
probation officer sits uneasily in today's federal criminal justice system.
The proabationer meets with the
probation officer, briefly, perhaps once a month--making the procedure a waste of time for both.
