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Forum: The Other Side
Thread (Discussion): Re-Entry Task Force Report
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Message 171192 (In Reply to Message 171083)
Posted by dp1
on Jan 14, 2006 06:50 PM | Also by dp1
| Gender: Female,
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So who makes that determination? The PO on the assumption that they know the tendencies through historical knowledge and being familiar with the offender? Or staff in Tallahassee that have never supervised a probationer in their life but think they know it all?
Don't Floridians already have tailored probation programs? i.e. sex offender probation and drug offender probation which have additional unique special conditions? Are you suggesting a revamp or fine tuning of the existing specialty probation orders?
It's a tough balance maintaining flexibility yet enforcing the Court orders. A zero tolerance approach is basically enforcing every single condition of supervision to the letter of the law. So if your probation orders stated that you are to pay $50 COS per month and you only paid $49 I suppose that's a technical violation. Of course this is a ridiculous example, but where do we draw the line?
I like being able to have some flexibility. Problem is that each PO has a different opinion as to what's important. If I thought it wasn't important that you only paid $49 and failed to enforce the $50 rule then an auditor or superviser looked at the file and wrote me up for not enforcing the rule then arrested you on the spot, how stupid would that situation be? Mixed messages are not a good thing.
I've given the flexibility issue a lot of thought over the years. The only answer seems to be to manage sex cases like we do drug cases with periodic case reviews in Court where the Judge can hear the issues frequently, get familiar with the case then modify as appropriate. I would much rather see the Judge every single month to talk about an offender's case to update him on the offender's progress or lack thereof than to wait until things blow up. Further, with all the new nagging issues RSOs are dealing with compounded by the mixed messages society and POs are sending, I believe it's in the best interests of protecting the offender's rights and insuring equality in regards to enforcement.
Of course, the alternative is to establish DOC policy. Well....let's not go there for now. lol
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Message 171083
Posted by orolan
on Jan 12, 2006 10:46 PM | Also by orolan
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