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Section 54-105 – Duties of executive director of Court Support Services Division re probation. Intensive probation program. Community service program. Caseload limitation

May 11, 2021 | Connecticut, Criminal Procedure

(a) The executive director of the Court Support Services Division shall be responsible for the supervision of the probation officers and other employees and may require reports from them. The executive director shall (1) formulate methods of investigation, supervision, record-keeping and reports, (2) compile statistics on the work of all probation officers, (3) maintain a record of all probationers, (4) perform such other duties as may be necessary to establish and maintain an efficient probation service in the Superior Court, and (5) prepare and publish such reports as may be required by the Chief Court Administrator. In the pursuance of such duties, the executive director shall have access to the records of probation officers.
(b) The Judicial Department shall establish within the Court Support Services Division an intensive probation program. The purpose of intensive probation is to place persons in the community under close supervision and restriction to ensure public safety, reduce prison overcrowding and contribute to the rehabilitation of persons in the program. There shall be periodic testing for drug or alcohol use for those probationers on intensive probation who have been identified as having histories of drug or alcohol abuse. Any defendant placed on intensive probation who fails to comply with the conditions of his intensive probation shall be presented to the court as provided in subsection (a) of section 53a-32 for a hearing to be conducted in accordance with said subsection. If such defendant is found by the court to have violated any condition of his intensive probation, the sentencing court or judge may continue such defendant on intensive probation, modify or enlarge the conditions of intensive probation or revoke the intensive probation and either require the defendant to serve the balance of the sentence imposed or impose any lesser sentence. The executive director of the Court Support Services Division shall have the same powers and duties with respect to the intensive probation program as the executive director has with respect to regular probation under subsection (a) of this section. Persons may be placed on intensive probation pursuant to an order of a court or judge under section 53a-30 or 53a-39a or as required by the Court Support Services Division.
(c) Subject to the approval of the Chief Court Administrator, the executive director of the Court Support Services Division may establish within the Court Support Services Division a community service program, including a community service labor program, which will assign, supervise and report compliance of persons sentenced to perform community service as a condition of probation or conditional discharge.
(d) The executive director of the Court Support Services Division shall establish within the Court Support Services Division a program wherein eighty-four probation officers shall have a caseload of not more than thirty-five probationers per officer for the purpose of providing high level supervision. This program shall be implemented with funds appropriated pursuant to section 48 of public act 90-213*, provided such caseload may be increased at the discretion of the executive director if funding for the current service level for the Court Support Services Division is reduced.

Conn. Gen. Stat. ยง 54-105

(1955, S. 3333d; P.A. 76-436, S. 555, 681; P.A. 77-614, S. 280, 610; P.A. 78-379, S. 23, 27; P.A. 79-585, S. 12, 15; P.A. 80-483, S. 137, 186; P.A. 84-505, S. 4, 6; P.A. 85-354, S. 2, 3; P.A. 87-538, S. 3, 5; P.A. 89-383, S. 5, 16; P.A. 90-213, S. 5, 14, 56; 90-261, S. 8, 19; P.A. 02-132, S. 44.)

*Note: Section 48 of public act 90-213 is special in nature and therefore has not been codified but remains in full force and effect according to its terms.