Qualifications and factors considered by judges in approving private entities to serve as probation offices
When a judge decides whether to let a private company run a probation office, the judge looks at things like how long the company has worked in probation, what kinds of offenders they have supervised before, whether the company has enough money to run the office, and anything else the judge thinks is important.
559.609. Qualifications and factors considered by judges in approving private entities to serve as s. — The associate or judges approving the private to function as a probation office shall base their decision on factors such as length of time in the field, in supervising various types of offenders, the financial ability to operate a probation office in the , and other factors as the judges deem necessary and relevant.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1992 S.B. 540 § 1 subsec. 6)
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