A Public Menace

A lack of leadership and accountability within the Cook County Adult Probation Department have crippled
the agency’s effectiveness, allowed dangerous criminals to run amok, and placed society at extreme risk.

By Lee Williams
CHICAGO—If the Cook County probation officer assigned spoken to the Institute say not only are much of the taxpayer
to supervise Acurie Collier had done his job, the convicted dollars being wasted, the public is far from safe.
sexual predator wouldn’t have been able to sexually assault a
13-year-old child in her bedroom on the city’s south side four The systemic failures that allowed the convicted sexual
months ago, as police have alleged. predator to go what probation officers call “off-leash”
and get arrested for sexually assaulting another child
It’s not as though the probation officer are emblematic of the problems within
ignored just one warning sign in Collier’s If the Cook County Reyes’ department, according to nearly a
behavior. His colleagues told the Illinois
Policy Institute the officer ignored 41 missed
probation officer dozen probation officers who spoke to the
Illinois Policy Institute on the condition of
curfews, let them all slide and took no official assigned to supervise anonymity. The officers said they would likely
action. Had he reported Collier’s misconduct be fired if their names were used in this story.
and “violated” the offender back to jail, the Acurie Collier had
alleged sexual assault of the child could have done his job, the These probation officers say the Cook
been averted. County Adult Department has deteriorated
convicted sexual into a morass of internal dissonance and
Before the attack, Collier had been on conflict caused by poor or chronically-absent
probation for a charge of aggravated
predator wouldn’t supervisors more concerned about their
criminal sexual assault. He remains in jail have been able to off-duty jobs than their officers, too much
subject to a $1.5 million bond, charged with “clouting” of staff and employees, a near-
aggravated sexual abuse of a minor. sexually assult a total lack of effective standards and policies,

Jesus Reyes, acting-chief of the Cook County

13-year-old child. and other destructive forces.

Adult Probation Department, admitted the
officer assigned to supervise Collier “dropped the ball.”
“I’m afraid so. That is absolutely the case,” Reyes told the
Illinois Policy Institute.
The department’s annual infusion of $43
million in public funds is misspent and wasted, the probation
officers say. Serious reforms are needed immediately or more
probationers will go unsupervised, placing the public at
extreme risk.

Reyes’ department receives $43 million per year from An investigation by the Illinois Policy Institute found
taxpayers to safeguard the public by monitoring hardened significant flaws within the agency, similar to what the
criminals whom a judge decided to sentence to probation officers have been saying:
rather than prison or jail. Probation officers who have

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• The alleged sexual assault of the 13-year-
old child committed July 31 could have
been prevented if the probation officer—
who remains employed at the department,
receiving an annual salary of more than
$72,000—had done his job and been
properly supervised.
• Senior staff and line supervisors working
off-duty as a security force at the Rev.
Jeremiah Wright’s former church have
been involved in criminal activity,
according to their colleagues.
• The officers say selection, hiring and
supervision of often depends on who the
officer knows, or who they’re related to—
their clout.
• The department has standards and
policies, over 1,000 pages. However,
they’re poorly written and selectively
enforced—seldom against an officer with
clout, the officers say. As a result, they say
there is little accountability.
By all • Many officers said they ignore department
policy as it often conflicts with what they
accounts, view as the right thing to do.
Acurie • The entire department could benefit from
more transparency and public scrutiny,
Collier according the Institute’s investigation.
• The department rewards clouted staff
should never with “merit pay,” rather than using the
have been department’s left-over taxpayer dollars as
a reward for hard work, or returning them
free the night to the general fund, according to sources
who spoke with the Institute.
he’s alleged • There are few statewide standards for
to have made probation officers, a flaw the officers
hope will someday result in a legislative
his way to fix.
the home of
A preventable attack
a 13-year-old By all accounts, Acurie Collier should never
girl. have been free the night he’s alleged to have
made his way to the home of a 13-year-old
girl he’d met online, using a computer that
according to his probation agreement he wasn’t
supposed to possess.
Collier, 34, had already been convicted of a
prior sexual assault of a minor, and was being
supervised by the probation department’s
highly-touted Adult Sexual Offender Program,
known as ASOP.
The case supervision policy for the ASOP unit,
signed by Reyes’ predecessor in 2004, calls for
“specialized supervision that shall include long-
term treatment and intensive surveillance.”
The policy calls for three graduated phases
of supervision including curfews, counseling,
home visits by armed probation officers, DNA
indexing, drug testing and more.
Collier’s probation officer did some of the
required curfew checks, but little else.
According to Reyes, Collier missed 17 curfew
checks during the nine months he was
probation prior to his arrest for aggravated
criminal sexual abuse.
However, Reyes’ officers say the actual
number of missed checks was 41. They say the
department’s senior staff “sanitized” Collier’s
file, removing a number of the most egregious
offenses after he was arrested for the second
sexual assault, so the department wouldn’t
look so bad if word got out. The senior staff
also removed the file from the department’s
computer, the officers said, because they were
worried a disgruntled employee would send it
to the media.
The court had imposed strict conditions for
Collier: he was not to possess weapons or
a computer, had to adhere to a 7 p.m. to 7
a.m. curfew, was not to have contact with
his previous victim or other minors, and was
required to register as a sexual offender, pay
fines and attend counseling, Reyes told the
Institute.
As Reyes said, this ball was definitely dropped.
“There were 17 instances when he was not
home. It’s noted that on November 9th he
received notice he must move, as he was within
500-feet of a child care facility. The probation
notes are unclear whether he moved. He was
required to report in person weekly. He did not
report at all during October of 2009,” Reyes
said. “The probation officer did not follow the
protocols we have in place, and a number of
the conditions the court had ordered were not
monitored appropriately.”
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Reyes’ officers say after only three missed
curfew checks they would have violated
Collier—documented his misconduct and
brought it to the attention of the court, seeking
to have him returned to prison.
“The case was not well-handled,” Reyes
admitted.
What came next was tragic.
Collier met a 13-year-old girl online, talked her
into providing her address, drove to her south-
side home and threw rocks at her window
until he gained her attention. She cracked the
window and tried to convince him to leave,
but he forced his way into her bedroom and
allegedly sexually assaulted her, according to
police reports.
When the child’s mother heard screaming, she
called 911 and rushed to the bedroom. Collier
struck her in the face and tried to flee out the
window, but was caught at the scene by police.
The probation department should have known
Collier posed an extreme risk to children. He
was on probation for Aggravated Criminal
Sexual Assault, in which the previous victim
was also 13 years old.
Even if his probation officer had done his
job correctly; Reyes claims he is still not sure
whether the second sexual assault could have
been prevented.
“Well, I don’t know if it could have been
[prevented] or couldn’t have been,” he said.
“Certainly it could have improved the chances
it could have been, but we can’t watch a person
24-hours. I’m not going to tell you it’s a good
thing.”
The officer remains employed, which his
anonymous colleagues say is a testament to his
clout.
Reyes wouldn’t say what discipline was meted
out. His staff said the officer received only a
brief suspension.
“We have taken appropriate action with the
officer, within the guidelines of the collective
bargaining agreement,” he said. “He had a clean
record prior to this. Our collective bargaining
agreement calls for corrective action first.” [Probation
Cheryl Anderson is one of the very few officer Cheryl]
probation officers willing to allow her name to
be used in this report.
Anderson said
it’s possible
Anderson, who has a Master’s degree in
corrections, was hired as an adult probation for an officer
officer in 1988. She was recently transferred
against her will to the juvenile probation
to simply
department. She said this transfer was ignore their
punishment for a letter she wrote to a judge
complaining of harassment. duties and
not violate an
Anderson said it’s possible for an officer to
simply ignore their duties and not violate an offender, as
offender, as long as they have the right clout.
long as they
“There are guys who go golfing with judges,” have the right
she said. “If this guy doesn’t do something, he
won’t be disciplined. Judges have that kind of clout.
power. We’re just peons.”
Collier remains incarcerated, held on a $1.5
million bond, charged with aggravated criminal
sexual assault, a Class 1 felony.
Off-duty misconduct
When he was still preaching at Chicago’s
Trinity United Church of Christ, the Reverend
Jeremiah Wright Jr. had a special security detail
comprised of Cook County Adult Probation
officers and supervisors.
The officers, and in one instance a Deputy
Chief, were armed and equipped with the finest
gear Cook County taxpayers’ money could
buy, according to officers interviewed for this
special report.
They used department-issue radios and cars,
along with their department-issue handguns.
Neither the vehicles nor the radios were
supposed to be used for anyone’s off-duty job.
The probation officers interviewed for this
special report said the mileage of every
department vehicle is recorded, at the beginning
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and end of every shift.
They said they began noticing that several
vehicles would somehow acquire extra miles
over the weekend, when no one was supposed
to be driving them.
It wasn’t difficult to get access to the keys,
which were kept in a locker at one of the
probation offices. The supervisors had access
to the key locker.
On one Sunday several months before the 2008
elections, while driving one of the probation
department’s squad cars, one of Wright’s
security detail got into an accident, striking two
cars. Rather than exchanging information with
the other drivers, he started backing away from
an ever-growing crowd, and then he ran quickly
away.
“The car apparently had been traveling at a high
The officers rate of speed, and then the driver lost control
and hit two cars,” Reyes said. “The person
say the hit- called somebody on the radio. Another witness
and-run went up to the driver. The driver walked
away. I send field supervisors out there. They
was covered interviewed people and got all the information
they could.”
up because
it involved Reyes asked the Cook County Sheriff ’s Office
to investigate.
senior
“We agreed to do that,” he said. “We gave them
department all the info we had.”
officials with
Sheriff ’s office investigators created a line-
massive up using photos from the ID Cards every
amounts of probation officer is issued. Still, the witnesses
and accident victims were unable to pick out
clout. the driver.
Probation officers told the Institute that the
photos provided to the sheriff ’s office were old,
and looked nothing like the staffers working
security for Rev. Wright.
The car was towed from the scene, and sat
covered with a tarp in the probation lot until
it was sold for scrap. The keys were still in the
ignition.
Reyes refused to provide the names of his
staffers working at Rev. Wright’s church, a
process that he said would be difficult.
“When people come to work for us, they have
to fill out this form whether they’re employed
somewhere else. The forms go into their
individual files,” he said. “There isn’t a separate
file. I’d have to go through 600 of them. If
somebody did, and didn’t do one of these
forms, they’d be subject to discipline.”
No probation employee was ever criminally
charged with the hit-and-run. No one was
disciplined internally by Reyes, who said he
was unable to determine who was driving the
vehicle.
“At the time, someone asked me, apparently
they had info from someone in the department
that [the driver] was someone from the
department,” Reyes said. “I told them I would
take action. I meant it. To this day I would take
action.”
The officers say the hit-and-run was covered up
because it involved senior department officials
with massive amounts of clout.
Reyes was not sure whether the two victims
were ever compensated by the county.
The hit-and-run is not the only incident
involving off-duty Cook County probation
officers working at Trinity United.
Several months later, police were dispatched to
the church to investigate a report of shots fired.
As they were arriving, they noted a car fleeing
the area at a high rate of speed and gave chase.
The chase turned into a police pursuit, with
multiple agencies involved. It covered more
than 40 blocks at speeds in excess of 80 mph,
until a police supervisor ordered his officers
to terminate the pursuit because the risk to the
public became too great.
Probation officers told the Institute that police
nearly obtained the entire license number of
the fleeing vehicle, except for the last two or
three digits.
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It was a Cook County probation vehicle, being
driven by an off-duty probation officer, who
was working at the church, they said. Whether
he was involved in a shooting is not known. He
was never identified.
Rev. Wright retired from the ministry in 2008.
Calls seeking comment from him were not
returned.
No transparency
The Illinois Policy Institute attempted to obtain
numerous documents from the probation
department through a request made under the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The Institute sought copies of various policies,
such as off-duty employment, use-of-force,
caseload supervision and others, as well as
training standards, performance evaluations and
e-mails pertaining to Collier’s arrest and the hit-
and-run accident at Rev. Wright’s church.
In a reply sent Sept. 28, Reyes said the records
of his agency are not subject to FOIA, because
his department operates under the Office
of the Chief Judge of Cook County, and is
therefore part of the judiciary and immune
from FOIA.
In Illinois, the judiciary is not subject to the
transparency and FOIA requirements placed
upon the other branches of state government,
according to a 1995 case Copley Press v.
Administrative Office of the Courts, 271 Ill. App. 3d
548 (2nd Dist. 1995).
Reyes, on his own, provided copies of several
policies, but the internal e-mails and other
documents that would have shed sunlight onto
the practices of his department were withheld.
The Institute appealed Reyes’ FOIA denial,
by requesting a review by the state’s public
access counselor Cara Smith, a deputy attorney
general positioned as the final arbiter of FOIA
disputes.
In an Oct. 8 letter to Smith, the Institute argued
that since Reyes’ probation officers are out
daily enforcing the law, their actions are more in
keeping with the executive branch than judicial.
In addition, the department’s Web site describes
the agency as administrative—well within the
bounds of FOIA—which “administers a wide
range of programs covering both standard and Several
specialized probation supervision and pretrial
and presentence services.” probation
Additionally, organizational charts on the same
officers told
Web site, and that of the Cook County Chief the Institute
Judge, show the Adult Probation department
listed under “Non-Judicial Offices,” and that sunlight
therefore subject to FOIA. is needed in
Lastly, the Institute argued that when FOIA the areas of
was drafted, the intent of the legislature was
clearly to shield the real judiciary from undue hiring and
requests for copies of their records, most of merit pay.
which are already available to the public. The
General Assembly did not intend to offer
blanket FOIA exemptions to every department
falsely claiming some shirt-tail relation to the
courts—especially one consisting of more than
600 employees, many of whom are armed and
carrying out law-enforcement functions.
Smith denied the request for review, thus
shielding the probation department from public
scrutiny.
The lack of transparency at the probation
department extends far beyond an
unwillingness to honor FOIA requests.
Several probation officers told the Institute that
sunlight is needed in the areas of hiring and
merit pay.
The department awards merit pay at the end
of the year—payments of $500 to $2,000. The
officers say the money is not given to those
who have worked the hardest. Instead it’s given
to those with clout.
“People get merit pay at the end of the year,
but only if you’re part of the right fan club,”
Anderson said. “They give bonuses every year
to people that don’t deserve it, as long as they’re
riding with the right clout. If you’re in charge
of the pot, you get to divvy it up.
Anderson said much more transparency is
needed, such as a department-wide audit and
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financial disclosure by the staff.
“The first thing that needs to happen is to
check everybody’s pocketbooks—checking and
savings,” she said. “There are a lot of people
living well above their means. Other officers say
the department needs to be up-front and open
about who it hires and why.
“There are a lot of nieces and nephews
working here,” Anderson said.
Kathleen Schaefer, M.A, president of the
Detroit-based Professional Probation & Parole
Consulting, Inc., is a well-respected national
probation expert.
Schaefer has more than 26 years of experience
with the Michigan Department of Corrections.
She managed boot camps and probation
violation centers in Detroit, and probation
and parole services in two counties. She’s also
“Standards? conducted on-site surveys for the American
Correctional Association. She’s worked as a
There are consultant since 2002.
none. It’s The Illinois Policy Institute asked Schaefer
all based on whether additional transparency, such as placing
performance evaluations of probation officers
favoritism— online, and the accompanying public scrutiny,
whether they would benefit the department.
like you, “Transparency is critical. It brings a question
to my mind in terms of resolving problems
whether and trying to remedy high caseloads,” she said.
you’ll be a “What Michigan did was implement a statewide
caseload auditing system, which helps bring
lapdog and accountability in terms of how supervision is
do whatever administered by a PO [probation officer]. It
brings accountability too in terms of the ratio
they want,” of staff to clients. That’s the real problem for
field agents.”
said Marie
Averhart. Dave Beery, the chief probation officer for
Dewitt County, is president-elect of the Illinois
Probation and Court Services Association, Inc.
With more than 1,000 members, the IPCSA is
one of the largest probation associations in the
country.
Beery supports increased transparency for
all probation departments, but balked at the
concept of placing an officer’s performance
evaluation online.
“I’m pretty sure that would be a violation of
some kind,” he said.
As to immunity form FOIA, Beery said,
“That’s a complex question. It depends on what
type of information is sought. Information
with respect to offenders should be protected.
General information about the department,
we’re here to serve the public and protect the
public. The public has a right to know what we
do.”
The IPCSA, Beery said, would support placing
policies and standards online for public review,
as well as increasing transparency in hiring, to
curb nepotism.
He’s never personally thought about releasing
the names of merit pay recipients because he’s
never doled out merit pay.
“If there’s money left over in my budget I
could do that, but that’s never been a practice
here,” he said. “I’ve never done it and I don’t
intend to do it.”
No policy or standards
The Cook County Adult Probation Department
is proud of its accreditation with the American
Correctional Association (ACA). It touts the
achievement on its Web site.
The officers refer to the ACA accreditation
surveys, which take place every two years, as the
bi-annual dog and pony show.
Policies are updated and floors are scrubbed,
they say, adding that recent inquiries from the
Institute caused a similar scurry to re-do policy
and training syllabuses.
The officers point to a lack of real standards
as the most significant issue facing the
department.
“Standards? There are none. It’s all based on
favoritism—whether they like you, whether
you’ll be a lapdog and do whatever they want,”
said Marie Averhart, who worked as an adult
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probation officer from 2001 until she was fired
in 2006.
Averhart brought a degree in sociology with
an emphasis in criminology, and five years of
experience in social services to the department.
She said she ran afoul of the wrong supervisor
and was fired for a case note she says was
written by someone else.
Averhart and many current officers who
requested anonymity said there is no real
guidance on how they should do their job.
Anderson agrees.
“The only real standard is who your clout is,
what race they are, and what race you are,” she
said. “Those are the real standards.”
Reyes disagrees, and points to the 1,000-
plus pages in his policy manual as proof his
department has standards.
“I don’t know why they’d say that,” he said.
“We have policies. We have a clear chain of
command. They’re supposed to follow the
standards in terms of policy. The number of
incidents that happen are few. That would
suggest to me something is going right.”
His probation officers point to the rigid state
standards and requirements for police officers.
By comparison, there are relatively few for
probation officers, even though some perform
a similar function.
They hope the legislature will get involved and
put pressure on the Administrative Office of
the Illinois Courts to codify requirements for
their job.
As it stands now, the officers say they often
ignore the 1,000-plus pages of policies, because
they’re vague, ill-conceived and conflict with
how things work on the streets.
For example, the officers say if they conduct
a home visit and find the probationer using
drugs, policy requires them to back away,
not get involved and call police. Instead, the
armed officers say they handcuff the suspects,
safeguard the evidence and call 911.
Schaefer examined the Illinois probation The officers
system at the Institute’s request, and noted the
inherent lack of standards caused by county- say they
based probation departments, rather than one
statewide agency.
often ignore
the 1,000-
Other states, she said, overcame similar
problems by consolidating their probation plus pages
departments. of policies,
“It’s tough to have statewide standards when because they’re
each county has their own control,” she said.
“Each county has their own regulations, vague, ill-
overseen by the chief judge.” conceived and
Michigan, Schaefer said, had county-based conflict with
probation departments in the 1970s, until all
the departments were assumed by the state.
how things
The county probation officers became state work on the
employees.
streets.
“What that meant was, there was one
governing agency in the state that controlled
policies and how probation services would be
administered,” she said. “It sounds to me like it
could be helpful to Illinois.”
She recommended a statewide audit, an
evaluation of the probation services in the
state.
“Because you have so many different agencies
involved—probation departments, courts,
sheriffs’ departments, prosecutors—it’s hard to
get everyone working in sync,” she said.
Beery said the IPSCA would likely oppose any
statewide consolidation.
“We’ve got enough bureaucracy,” he said. “It
would create a bigger bureaucracy, with less-
efficient delivery of services.”
He pointed out his association is not
responsible for setting standards, which is the
purview of the Administrative Office of the
Illinois Courts.
“There are state standards with respect to
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qualifications for hiring, supervision of
cases, transferring cases,” he said. “Are they
sufficient? Yes, but some need improvement
and updating.”
Clouting
The probation officers who spoke to the
Illinois Policy Institute say clouting is perhaps
the most destructive force facing their
department. Clout undermines the chain of
command, kills morale and turns policy and
standards into a joke. It’s created two classes of
officer, the haves and the have-nots. Often, this
determination falls along racial lines.
There are two kinds of clout they say: internal
and external.
Who you ride with refers to one’s internal clout.
What ward you got refers to an officer’s influential
friends and relatives outside the department.
The Cook Officers who spoke with the Institute claim
County those with the right clout can let a probationer
go “off-leash” and remain employed.
Adult
Those without clout can, like former officer
Probation Marie Averhart described, be dismissed for little
Department or no reason.
should place Averhart tried to fight her dismissal through her
union, to no avail.
all of its
policies online “The union did nothing for me,” she said. “The
union man told me to go ahead and resign.
for public There was nothing we could do. My supervisor
was too connected. He had too much clout.”
scrutiny.
If clout is a problem within his agency, or if it
even exists, Reyes said he’s never seen evidence
of it, since being appointed acting-Chief
Probation Officer in 2005.
“In all that time, I have not had a single
person promoted that I did not personally
recommend,” he said. “Every single supervisor,
deputy chief, regional manager or administrative
staff have been the people I’ve selected. I’ve
selected them based on the work they’ve done,
and the potential work they do.”
Solutions and recommendations
The Cook County Adult Probation Department
is a massive organization, one of the largest
probation departments in the country, and the
largest to receive accreditation by the American
Correctional Association.
The agency supervises more than 25,000
individuals annually—convicted criminals who
received probation as a sentencing option
rather than incarceration. More than 90 percent
are felons.
The department also supervises 8,000 people
on “pre-trial” status—defendants who have
been arrested and were released on bond,
awaiting further court hearings.
The Cook County Probation Department has
nearly 700 total employees, of whom 450 are
probation officers. It operates out of 18 offices,
and has an annual budget of approximately $43
million.
If the department does not function properly,
the public is put at risk and millions of taxpayer
dollars are wasted.
To improve the operations of the department,
the Illinois Policy Institute proposes the
following recommendations:
The Cook County Adult Probation Department
needs more transparency in hiring. It needs to
adhere to civil service regulations and hire the
right candidate for the right reasons. Greater
transparency of its current and future staff
would reduce the nepotism that plagues the
agency.
The department needs to end the practice of
issuing merit pay at the end of each fiscal year.
If there is money remaining in the budget, it
should be returned to the county’s general fund.
The Department’s Inspector General should
investigate merit pay disbursements over the
past five fiscal years.
The Illinois General Assembly needs to pass
legislation ending the judiciary’s exemption to
the state’s Freedom of Information Act. Not
only would this provide increased transparency
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of the judiciary, it would allow for greater should conduct a complete and thorough
public scrutiny of agencies that claim they fall review of its policies and procedures with
under the court’s jurisdiction, such as the Cook assistance from the American Correctional
County Adult Probation Department. Association. The Cook
The Cook County Adult Probation Department The Cook County Adult Probation Department County Adult
should place all of its policies online for public
scrutiny.
should conduct criminal records checks of its
staff every six months to determine whether
Probation
any have been arrested and failed to report the Department
The Cook County Adult Probation Department incident.
should place the performance evaluations of its should conduct
staff online to allow scrutiny from the public.
This could have exposed the misconduct of
The Cook County Adult Probation Department
should create an internal affairs unit to conduct
criminal
the probation officer who failed to supervise both proactive compliance investigations and records checks
Acurie Collier, which led to the alleged sexual to investigate allegations of misconduct made
assault of a 13-year-old girl. against its staff. of its staff
every six
The Illinois State Police should update its Sex
Offender Information Web site, which still months to
describes Collier as “compliant.”
determine
The state should retain the services of a whether any
national probation consultant to examine
whether the current practice of county-based have been
probation departments is as efficient as the
statewide probation departments used by other
arrested and
states. This expert should also examine whether failed to report
the state would benefit from outsourcing
the supervision of misdemeanants and non- the incident.
violent felons through private probation firms,
a practice used in other states that has already
proven successful and cost-effective.

The Illinois General Assembly should

pass legislation outlining specific training
requirements of armed probation officers
that are similar to the training requirements
of certified police officers, (i.e. use of force,
weapons qualification, less-than-lethal training,
first-aid).

The Cook County Adult Probation Department

should review the off-duty/secondary
employment of every staff member to
determine whether the employment interferes
with the employee’s ability to satisfactorily
perform their duties, and whether the
secondary employment impairs or reflects
poorly upon the department or the reputation
of the Circuit Court of Cook County.

The Cook County Adult Probation Department