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Ark. Code Ann. § 9-27-347

Probation reports

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case KN v. State (2005)

Most recently applied in K.N. v. State (February 2005)

Acts 1975, No. 451, § 34; A.S.A. 1947, § 45-434; Acts 2003, No. 1166, § 24.

(1) The probation officer shall make and keep a complete history of each case before disposition and during the course of any probation imposed by the circuit court.

(2) It is the intention of this section to require an intelligent and thorough report of each juvenile before probation and during probation as to heredity, environment, condition, treatment, development, and results.

(3) The report shall contain among other information the age, sex, nativity, residence, education, mentality, habits, whether married or single, and employment and income and shall be continued so as to show the condition of the person during the term of his or her probation and the results of probation in the case.

(4) The report shall never be disclosed except as required by law or directed by the court.

(5) The probation officer shall furnish to each person released on probation a written statement of the terms and conditions of probation and shall report to the court any violation or breach of the terms and conditions so imposed.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.