O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 42-8-27 (2019)

Duties of officers

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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An officer shall supervise and counsel probationers and parolees in the judicial circuit to which he or she is assigned. Each officer shall perform the duties prescribed in this chapter and other duties as are prescribed by DCS and shall make and keep any records and files and make such reports as are required of him or her by DCS, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, or a court. Officers shall be authorized to provide supervision of defendants who are participants in a drug court division, mental health court division, or veterans court division operated by a superior court, provided that sufficient staff and resources exist for such supervision.

History

Ga. L. 1956, p. 27, § 7; Ga. L. 1958, p. 15, § 7; Ga. L. 1972, p. 604, § 6; Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 4-1/HB 310; Ga. L. 2017, p. 585, § 2-6/SB 174.

Annotations

Cross references. Applicability of this state’s correction laws to probationers found in other states, T. 42, C. 11. Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 6-1/HB 310, not

codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “This Act shall become effective July 1, 2015, and shall apply to sentences entered on or after such date.” Law reviews. For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 231 (2015). For article on the 2017 amendment of this Code section, see 34 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 115 (2017).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Probation supervisors as public officers. - Circuit probation officers (now probation supervisors) are public officers

and as a consequence hold office at the pleasure of the appointing power. 1968 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 68-461.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1998–1998 · leading case: Ga. Dep't of Corr. v. Lamaine, 502 S.E.2d 766 (Ga. Ct. App. 1998).
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Ga. Dep't of Corr. v. Lamaine, 502 S.E.2d 766 (Ga. Ct. App. 1998). · cites it 8× “Plaintiff first claims that Hollingshed merely performed the "ministerial" act of supervising Chester, as he was required to do by OCGA§§ 42-8-27 and 42-8-29. But the supervision of criminals on probation necessarily requires the allocation of scarce time and resources and the…”
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