Do we have to turn all our cases over to you?
Absolutely not. You may elect to keep some cases unsupervised. That is solely your decision. However the system works best when cases are routinely referred to probation for supervision.

What if we decide we no longer wish to use supervised probation?
You may cancel our agreement with 30 days notice, at any time, at your convenience. This is our incentive to meet and exceed your expectations every day.

How does this differ from our Court Referral Officer or other court personnel?
We work with your CRO as an additional tool or service. Many of the supervision issues that your court may require are outside of the scope of the CRO, for example, the active and diligent collection of partial payments. We offer our services to the full scope of your courts’ cases.

Who are your probation officers and how do we know they’re capable?
They are from your community. When we establish a new office, we generally hire people familiar and experienced in the local area. Sometimes this means a court clerk from an adjoining jurisdiction, or perhaps a retired clerk or police officer. We pay our probation officers above the industry average. That gives us the opportunity to recruit the best and brightest professionals available. Our philosophy calls for hiring local people who are experienced and committed to the community. We welcome your suggestions and guidance on suitable candidates. Further all officers go through annual in-service training. This is part of our commitment to excellence.

Where are your offices?
More importantly, where are they in relation to the probationers. At a minimum, physical office space must be close to the court. In the case of large city or county, we might open satellite offices so that probationers can report mitigating transportation problems. Inability to reach a probation office can “unhook” an otherwise strong program. JCS, Inc supports this concept and commits to providing convenient office location(s).

How much does it cost?
It costs the city nothing. Not a dime. We are an offender paid system. Simply the offender pays a monthly supervision fee during the term of their probation. The faster they complete their sentence, the sooner they do not have to report to our offices & pay supervision fees.

If they don’t have money for the fine, where will they find the money for these new supervision fees?
We have found that in the long run, supervised probation is less expensive than unsupervised probation for the offender. In approximately half the cases of unsupervised probation, the offender will fail to complete the orders of the court. Failing the orders of the court generally results in loss of driving privilege, jail, vehicle impounding, FTP/FTA charges, loss of employment, domestic problems and the list goes on. Recovering from these is extremely expensive. For example, reinstatement of driving privilege can cost $275.00 or more.

We believe it is a greater kindness to provide the structure that supervised probation can yield in just a few short months, rather than leaving the probationer to self-manage ~ and have wind up with a capias warrant.

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