The Porter County Adult Probation Office serves the six courts of Porter County. There are currently twenty-six Probation Officers, including the Chief, Assistant Chief, three Home Detention Officers and a Domestic Violence Probation Officer. There are also three full time probation clerks handling caseload management for those persons placed on administrative supervision by three of the County Superior Courts. Our office is located in the Courthouse on the first floor just to the left of security. We are open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. We are open Wednesday evenings until 6:00 p.m. The office is closed for all major holidays and mandatory indiana Judicial Center trainings.
Valparaiso, Indiana, is situated 60 miles southeast of Chicago, Illinois and approximately 50 miles west of South Bend, Indiana. Porter County is on the southern tip of Lake Michigan.
In Indiana (by State Law IC 11-13-1-3 §3):
A probation officer shall:
- conduct prehearing and presentence investigations and prepare reports as required by law;
- assist the courts in making pretrial release decisions;
- assist the courts, prosecuting attorneys, and other law enforcement officials in making decisions regarding the diversion of charged individuals to appropriate noncriminal alternatives;
- furnish each person placed on probation under his supervision a written statement of the conditions of his probation and instruct him regarding those conditions;
- supervise and assist persons on probation consistent with conditions of probation imposed by the court;
- bring to the court's attention any modification in the conditions of probation considered advisable;
- notify the court when a violation of a condition of probation occurs;
- cooperate with public and private agencies and other persons concerned with the treatment or welfare of persons on probation, and assist them in obtaining services from those agencies and persons;
- keep accurate records of cases investigated by him and of all cases assigned to him by the court and make these records available to the court upon request;
- collect and disburse money from persons under his supervision according to the order of the court, and keep accurate and complete accounts of those collections and disbursements;
- assist the court in transferring supervision of a person on probation to a court in another jurisdiction; and
- perform other duties required by law or as directed by the court.
As added by Acts 1979, P.L.120 §6. |
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