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90_SB1880
725 ILCS 185/4 from Ch. 38, par. 304
730 ILCS 110/9b from Ch. 38, par. 204-1b
Amends the Pretrial Services Act and the Probation and
Probation Officers Act. Eliminates requirement that all
pretrial services agency personnel and probation officers
must be full-time employees.
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1 AN ACT in relation to probation and pretrial services,
2 amending named Acts.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Pretrial Services Act is amended by
6 changing Section 4 as follows:
7 (725 ILCS 185/4) (from Ch. 38, par. 304)
8 Sec. 4. All pretrial services agency personnel shall be
9 full-time employees supervised by the director and, except
10 for secretarial staff, subject to the hiring and training
11 requirements established by the Supreme Court as provided in
12 the Probation and Probation Officers Act. "An Act providing
13 for a system of probation, for the appointment and
14 compensation of probation officers, and authorizing the
15 suspension of final judgment and the imposition of sentence
16 upon persons found guilty of certain defined crimes and
17 offenses, and legalizing their ultimate discharge without
18 punishment", approved June 10, 1911, as amended.
19 (Source: P.A. 84-1449.)
20 Section 10. The Probation and Probation Officers Act is
21 amended by changing Section 9b as follows:
22 (730 ILCS 110/9b) (from Ch. 38, par. 204-1b)
23 Sec. 9b. For the purposes of this Act, the words and
24 phrases described in this Section have the meanings
25 designated in this Section, except when a particular context
26 clearly requires a different meaning.
27 (1) "Division" means the Division of Probation Services
28 of the Supreme Court.
29 (2) "Department" means a probation or court services
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1 department that provides probation or court services and such
2 other related services assigned to it by the circuit court or
3 by law.
4 (3) "Probation Officer" means a person employed full
5 time in a probation or court services department providing
6 services to a court under this Act or the Juvenile Court Act
7 of 1987. A probation officer includes detention staff,
8 non-secure group home staff and management personnel who meet
9 minimum standards established by the Supreme Court and who
10 are hired under the direction of the circuit court. These
11 probation officers are judicial employees designated on a
12 circuit wide or county basis and compensated by the
13 appropriate county board or boards.
14 (4) "Basic Services" means the number of personnel
15 determined by the Division as necessary to comply with adult,
16 juvenile, and detention services workload standards and to
17 operate authorized programs of intermediate sanctions,
18 intensive probation supervision, public or community service,
19 intake services, secure detention services, non-secure group
20 home services and home confinement.
21 (5) "New or Expanded Services" means personnel necessary
22 to operate pretrial programs, victim and restitution
23 programs, psychological services, drunk driving programs,
24 specialized caseloads, community resource coordination
25 programs, and other programs designed to generally improve
26 the quality of probation and court services.
27 (6) "Individualized Services and Programs" means
28 individualized services provided through purchase of service
29 agreements with individuals, specialists, and local public or
30 private agencies providing non-residential services for the
31 rehabilitation of adult and juvenile offenders as an
32 alternative to local or state incarceration.
33 (7) "Jurisdiction" means the geographical area of
34 authority of a probation department as designated by the
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1 chief judge of each circuit court under Section 15 of this
2 Act.
3 (Source: P.A. 89-198, eff. 7-21-95.)