Under current New York State law, the only agencies qualified to do criminal-background checks are those that perform criminal justice functions, including police departments, district attorney's offices, probation departments and the courts.
The county executive said he envisioned bringing in other agencies to work with the system, including the district attorney's office, the probation department, and even agencies outside law enforcement.
Cliff Chuang, director of the state's charter school office, sent probation orders to Northside and Southside on Wednesday, charging that trustees at both schools had little knowledge of their own finances and appeared to have surrendered financial and operational control to the Believe network, which has left both schools in debt and almost unable to act independently.
Earlier, she provided a document that said the office offered probation to Ortega and Mason in exchange for guilty pleas.
To truly measure the accomplishments of a district attorney's office or probation department, victim satisfaction and restitution must be used as performance measures as well.
But then there's a pre-sentence investigation during which the office of probation looks into the offender to see if he or she has issues of substance abuse or a prior record, among other things.
Feuer said the money has been used in Los Angeles largely to fund a long-running city program in which police, city attorneys, the district attorney's office and probation officials collaborate to target the city's worst gang neighborhoods.
Their meeting took place in his probation office where two other people sat in on the confrontation.
Ron Nick Offermann) sends Leslie Amy Poehlerr) to run an errand at the DMV in Pawnee Hall's fourth floor, a dark and unsettling place that includes probation offices and divorce filings.
The young people's rehabilitation is structured through a 'one-week plan', as explained by Marina Khitarishvili, specialist at the Probation office, who was hired as part of the reform project to work exclusively with juvenile probationers.
