559.609. Qualifications and factors considered by judges in approving private entities to serve as probation offices.
Qualifications and factors considered by judges in approving privateentities to serve as probation offices.
559.609. The associate circuit or municipal judgesapproving the private entity to function as a probation officeshall base their decision on factors such as length of time inthe probation field, experience in supervising various types ofoffenders, the financial ability to operate a probation office inthe jurisdiction, and other factors as the judges deem necessaryand relevant.
(L. 1992 S.B. 540 § 1 subsec. 6)