Probation Confidentiality

[CdwJava]

Many people put on probation in CA for drugs or misdemeanor offenses are given unsupervised probation, or, what is often called court probation. In such instances there is no probation officer assigned to the subject. You may have to make a call to the Probation Department and ask them where or to whom you must address any correspondence.

 

[quincy]

That would explain why thunderstrike78 was told to send the letter to the probation office rather than to the probation officer.

I am not sure it explains the Probation Office's reluctance to just tell thunderstrike78 it is Court or unsupervised probation, though. Or why the offender would be housed in a 24-hour-a-day supervised live-in facility.

 

[thunderstrike78]

Many people put on probation in CA for drugs or misdemeanor offenses are given unsupervised probation, or, what is often called court probation. In such instances there is no probation officer assigned to the subject. You may have to make a call to the Probation Department and ask them where or to whom you must address any correspondence.

We have guys here who are on summary (unsupervised) probation as well as formal probation. It's never been an issue for the probation office to just tell us that. In fact, we learned to call and confirm that a while back after one guy told us he was on summary probation, stayed here for a couple of months and then left, and then we got a call from his actual probation officer (he lied--he *was* on formal probation) looking for him because he hadn't reported in so long they were about to issue a warrant for his arrest. That's exactly the problem we're trying to avoid--having officers show up here to take someone into custody because we weren't aware he was wanted.

Anyway, now we call the probation office to confirm when a guy says he's on summary probation. Usually the officer of the day just looks him up in the system and says "yeah" and it's not a problem. The refusal to tell us anything at all without permission from the probationer is what's weird.

 

[quincy]

We have guys here who are on summary (unsupervised) probation as well as formal probation. It's never been an issue for the probation office to just tell us that. In fact, we learned to call and confirm that a while back after one guy told us he was on summary probation, stayed here for a couple of months and then left, and then we got a call from his actual probation officer (he lied--he *was* on formal probation) looking for him because he hadn't reported in so long they were about to issue a warrant for his arrest. That's exactly the problem we're trying to avoid--having officers show up here to take someone into custody because we weren't aware he was wanted.

Anyway, now we call the probation office to confirm when a guy says he's on summary probation. Usually the officer of the day just looks him up in the system and says "yeah" and it's not a problem. The refusal to tell us anything at all without permission from the probationer is what's weird.

Maybe the guy is not on probation at all and just likes the housing and meals.

 

[CdwJava]

Maybe the guy is not on probation at all and just likes the housing and meals.

We had a homeless guy who would intentionally get sauced, go to the ER, and then seek admission to an alcohol rehab facility on cold weekends. I'm sure he wasn't the only one, but since they had to be brought in (referred) by law enforcement, that's how it went..

 

[westside]

We had a homeless guy who would intentionally get sauced, go to the ER, and then seek admission to an alcohol rehab facility on cold weekends. I'm sure he wasn't the only one, but since they had to be brought in (referred) by law enforcement, that's how it went..

Distant relative of Otis Campbell

 

[quincy]

Distant relative of Otis Campbell

Otis Campbell. A flashback to a time when alcoholics were considered funny.

 

[westside]

Otis Campbell. A flashback to a time when alcoholics were considered funny.

aka when the world wasn't so deadly serious.

 

[quincy]

aka when the world wasn't so deadly serious.

That too.