The commissioner shall establish and administer a pretrial services program that provides a pretrial risk assessment for all defendants detained in custody in a correctional facility following arrest and for any defendant for whom the prosecution requests to have a pretrial risk assessment at the next hearing or arraignment. The pretrial services program shall make […]
The commissioner shall (1) appoint and make available to the superior court and district court qualified pretrial services officers; (2) fix pretrial services officers’ salaries; (3) assign pretrial services officers to each judicial district; (4) provide for the necessary supervision, training, expenses, including clerical services, and travel of pretrial services officers; (5) approve a risk […]
(a) Pretrial services officers shall, in advance of a first appearance before a judicial officer under AS 12.30, conduct a pretrial risk assessment on the defendant using an instrument approved by the commissioner for the purpose of making a recommendation to the court concerning an appropriate pretrial release decision and conditions of release. In conducting […]
All pretrial services officers shall be available to the superior and district courts and shall be officers of the court.
In this chapter, (1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of corrections; (2) “program” means the pretrial services program.
