PROBATION GENERAL
Address: 1111 Jackson Street, Oakland
What is the location of the Department’s main office/headquarters?
A primary purpose of pre-trial services is to help reduce this in jails, ensuring individuals are only detained if necessary for public safety.
What is jail overcrowding?
This virtual system is used to interview defendant’s while they are in custody.
What is Polycom?
Before retiring, this one person was the original ACPD reentry team.
Who is Neola Crosby?
The PYD unit is responsible for monitoring youth who have been ordered removed from their home by the Court.
What is the Placement Unit?
Chronological record of interactions, observations and actions relating to a client or collateral contact.
What are case notes/documentation?
These two main factors are evaluated during the risk assessment process to determine a defendant’s eligibility for pre-trial release.
What are risk to public safety and risk of failure to appear?
This assessment is given to the clients to help assign them to the appropriate level/unit of supervision.
What is COMPAS?
This community provider offers AB 109 Employment support services and is in Cohort 6 of their Cognitive Behavioral Intervention (CBI3) 10-week program.
Who are Five Keys?
At this hearing, the juvenile court judge determines the most appropriate sanction and formulates a sentence that is tailored to help the minor become rehabilitated, after reviewing a report prepared by the probation department.
What is a Disposition hearing?
This President signed the Probation Act of 1925, which established probation as a federal court sentence.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
A judge may require this type of monitoring, which can include a device placed on a clients ankle, as a condition of pre-trial release.
What is GPS monitoring?
This phrase used in court comes from Latin and translates to “no contest.”
What is Nolo Contendere?
These staff are a key part of the Community Reentry and Outreach Unit and we have 3 vacancies. These staff have lived expertise and they support DPOs with client engagement.
Who are Community Outreach Workers?
This Welfare and Institutions Code describes youth who are dually involved with the Juvenile Justice System and the Department of Social Services.
What is WIC 300?
The ACPD is committed to making our communities the safest in the nation.
Pre-trial services may assess defendants using this type of tool, designed to objectively evaluate the likelihood of reoffending or failing to appear.
What is a risk assessment tool?
This page is filed on top of every Sentencing Report and is obtained from the CRIMS database.
What is the Face Sheet?
This Unit is new to ACPD and still growing. They gather feedback, apply information from the Research and Best Practices Units, and write the scopes of work (“blueprint”) for new AB 109, PYD, and Facilities programs.
What is the Program Design and Development Unit?
An highly respected Alameda County attorney, judge and politician whom our minimum security residential program is named after.
Who is Wilmont Sweeney?
The necessity to obtain CA DOJ or FBI information to execute official responsibilities.
What is "Need-to-Know?"
This major court case established the legal principle that defendants should not be detained solely due to their inability to pay bail.
What is In re Humphrey?
The risk assessment tool used to evaluate a defendant’s danger to society pursuant to Penal Code 290.
What is the Static 99R?
Before any AB 109 funding is approved for programs, we must get approval from this Executive Committee.
Who are (What is?) the Community Corrections Partnership Executive Committee?
This Senate Bill was designed to reduce commitments of youth to the state juvenile and adult systems by reducing reliance on incarceration and expanding community-based options for youth. To further reach this goal, the state has aligned the responsibility for managing all youth under the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 602 to local jurisdictions.
What is Senate Bill 823?