North Carolina General Statutes 143B-1481. Report on probation and parole caseloads
(a) The Department of Adult Correction shall report by March 1 of each year to the Chairs of the House of Representatives and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Justice and Public Safety and the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Justice and Public Safety on caseload averages for probation and parole officers. The report shall include:
(1) Data on current caseload averages and district averages for probation/parole officer positions.
Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 143B-1481
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
(2) Data on current span of control for chief probation officers.
(3) An analysis of the optimal caseloads for these officer classifications.
(4) The number and role of paraprofessionals in supervising low-risk caseloads.
(5) The process of assigning offenders to an appropriate supervision level based on a risk/needs assessment.
(6) Data on cases supervised solely for the collection of court-ordered payments.
(b) The Department of Adult Correction shall report by March 1 of each year to the Chairs of the House of Representatives and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Justice and Public Safety and the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Justice and Public Safety on the following:
(1) The number of sex offenders enrolled on active and passive GPS monitoring.
(2) The caseloads of probation officers assigned to GPS-monitored sex offenders.
(3) The number of violations.
(4) The number of absconders.
(5) The projected number of offenders to be enrolled by the end of the fiscal year. (2013-360, s. 16C.10; recodified from N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-707.1 by 2021-180, s. 19C.9(j), (m).)