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Steven Hardy, Chief Probation Officer ADULT PROBATION Mission Major Statement I functions To provide the highest quality services to the courts, community, victims of crimes and adult offenders. This is accomplished by Probation Services: Includes standard supervision caseloads offering accurate and reliable information, promoting public that are staffed at a 65:1 probationer to probation officer ratio safety through effective community-based supervision and and intensive probation supervision caseloads are staffed by a affording offenders a realistic opportunity to initiate positive life team that consists of a probation officer and a surveillance changes. officer for every 25 probationers, or one probation officer and two surveillance officers for every 40 probationers, or one probation officer for every 15 probationers. Organization Electronic Monitoring (EM) and the Work Furlough Program (WF) are jail diversion programs to alleviate jail overcrowding. WF enables participants to maintain employment or attend school during the day while returning Chief Probation to custody to spend the night. EM has forty-five bracelets. Officer Participants are charged a daily fee that equals one hour’s wage or “minimum wage”, whichever is greater. Probation Treatment Services Services Community Restitution involves probationers doing volunteer work on projects in the community. Admin Court Administrative Services: Provides direction and support Services Services service within the department, which includes planning, budget oversight and human resource management. Information Technology Services The department is managed by the Chief Adult Probation Officer. The Chief Adult Probation Officer is appointed by the Presiding Judge of Superior Court. C-1 ADULT PROBATION Major functions Performance (Concluded) reporting Court Services: Prepares pre-sentence investigations and Performance Measure Actuals & Benchmark - Adult Probation pretrial reports, completes criminal history inquiries, collects The following measures are departmental priorities identified in the County- court-ordered fees and provides data entry support. wide Strategic Plan: Pretrial Services: Gathers, verifies and provides Department Goal: Actual Current Benchmark information to Judicial Officers to assist in making custody Measure: FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012 and / or release decisions. That the County's customers and the general public are satisfied with the quality of services provided. Drug Court: Provides highly structured court intervention, % probationers rating services supervision and drug treatment services in an eighteen- received as good or excellent 77% 77% 82% month program that requires weekly urinalysis, court To reduce recidivism by offenders in the criminal justice system. appearances, community service, group counseling and % of Petitions to Revoke payment of fees. Probation for technical Violations on Standard Probation 56% 55% 54% Treatment Services: Includes in-house treatment counselors % of Intensive probationers who provide substance abuse group counseling to Drug Court successfully completing 54% 55% 56% participants and probationers. Sex offender probationers are % of Standard probationers required to participate in counseling and also submit to successfully completing 80% 81% 83% polygraph testing. Certified probation and surveillance officers % of Drug Court Participants also facilitate in-house cognitive-based groups, such as Moral graduating from the program 78% 79% 80% Reconation Therapy (MRT), Social Responsibility Training (SRT), and Adult Substance Abuse Cognitive Educational Curriculum (A.S.A.C.E.P.). Information/Technology Services: Oversees the State Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC), adult probation information tracking system within the department; responsible for training all employees utilizing this tracking system and insuring quality control; in-house liaison with Court I.T. personnel for all computers within the department. C-2 ADULT PROBATION Performance reporting (conT) TREATMENT SERVICES: PROBATION SERVICES: To reduce recidivism by offenders in the criminal To reduce recidivism by offenders in the criminal justice system: justice system: County Strategic Goal: Community Health, Safety and County Strategic Goal: Community Health, Safety and Well-being. Well-being. Objective: Reduce the number of Petitions to Revoke Objective: Reduce probationer unemployment by 5 % by Probation by 2% by FY 2012. FY 2012. Status: The number of Petitions to Revoke Probation has Status: Currently, 30% of probationers are unemployed been reduced by 13% Strategy: Adult Probation will continue to utilize Strategy: Probation Officers will continue to direct community partnerships to help provide employment probationers to attend evidence - based cognitive group opportunities for probationers. programs such as Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT), Social Responsibility Training (SRT), and Adult Substance ADMINISTRATIONS SERVICES: Abuse Cognitive Educational Curriculum (A-SACEP) and Customer satisfaction: specific type curriculum that meet their needs. County Strategic Goal: Customer Satisfaction Objective: By the next survey, increase customer COURT SERVICES: satisfaction by 2% To reduce Yuma County Adult Detention Facility Status: Overall customer satisfaction is at 88%. (YCADF) presentenced inmate population: Strategy: Employees will continue to strive for 100% County Strategic Goal: Community Health, Safety and customer satisfaction by continuing to provide good Well-being. customer service. Objective: Reduce the number of presentenced defendants in the YCADF by 2% by FY 2012. Status: The number of presentenced inmates has decreased 4% Strategy: Continue to utilize the pretrial assessment screening tool. C-3 ADULT PROBATION All Service Areas: To provide continued excess liability insurance for all Initiatives superior court employees work related incidents. New for 2012 Status: Ongoing To ensure that staff have up to date equipment to increase effectiveness and efficiency. This is a continuation budget. There are no major new Status: Ongoing initiatives, programs or additional resources. Initiatives Prior Year Status Court Services: Maintain the Court Liaison Program in order to maintain operational and cost efficiencies in the probation revocation process. Status: Ongoing Supervision Services: Initiate a campaign for public awareness of probation services. Status: Ongoing Implement evidence based principles of effective intervention to reduce recidivism. Status: Ongoing Implement Project S.A.F.E. (Swift Accountable Fair Enforcement). Status: Ongoing C-4 ADULT PROBATION Authorized Positions by Classification 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Staffing Levels Chief Adult Probation Officer 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 Deputy Chief Probation Officer 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 Budget Manager 0.20 0.20 0.20 0.20 Substance Abuse Program Supervis o 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 Authorized Positions by Major Function Treatment Program Supervisor 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.00 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Probation Services Supervisor 7.00 7.00 7.00 7.00 Chief & Deputy Probation Officers 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 Hurman Resource Specialist 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 Supervision Services 36.00 37.00 37.00 36.00 Adult Probation Officer III 0.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 Court Services 38.50 38.50 38.50 38.50 Network System Administrator 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 Treatment 6.92 6.92 6.92 5.00 Court Services Supervisor 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.00 Administration 12.45 12.45 12.45 13.45 Adult Probation Officer II 0.00 22.00 22.00 21.00 Information Technology 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.60 Community Restitution Prog Supervis 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 Total 95.87 96.87 97.87 96.55 Adult Probation Officer I 0.00 19.00 19.00 19.00 Adult Probation Officer 40.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Authorized Positions by Type of Employment Information Technology Training Spec 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Accounting Clerk, Principal 0.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 Surveillance Officer 13.00 11.00 11.00 11.00 General fund 33.91 33.91 33.91 33.91 Special revenue funds 61.96 62.96 63.96 62.64 Executive Assistant 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 Computer Technician 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.60 Total 95.87 96.87 97.87 96.55 Substance Abuse Counselor 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 Accounting Clerk I 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.00 The department requested a .6 Computer IT Technician Accounting Clerk II 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 position to be combined with .2 position funded by Justice of Administrative Assistant 2.00 2.00 2.00 3.00 Peace and .2 position funded by Superior Court. The County Probation Case Assistant 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 Administrator recommends the .6 FTE increase. Court Services Assistant II 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 Communication Specialist/Dispatche 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 Financial Services Specialist I 3.00 3.00 3.00 0.00 The ratio of positions funded by Special Revenue funds Community Restitution Specialist 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 remains the same as last fiscal year at 65%. Sentencing Report Analyst 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 Probation Aide 1.92 1.92 1.92 0.00 Office Assistant II 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.00 Receptionist / Clerk 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 Office Assistant I 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 Data Entry Specialist I/Prob Case Cl 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 Total 94.87 96.87 97.87 96.55 C-5 ADULT PROBATION Staffing Levels (Concluded) More staffing charts to be available in Adopted Budget Book. C-6 ADULT PROBATION Funding Levels Revenue: General Fund support is at the level needed for Supplies and services: The increase is primarily the result General Fund expenditures. Special Revenue is 7.64% of an increase in the Insurance Premium line item in the above the FY10/11 budget. The increase is primarily due to general fund and an increase in the Laboratory line item in an increase in State grant funding.