North Carolina Department
of Public Safety
Community Corrections

Completing Probation
Successfully
Introduction

Supervised Probation

This pamphlet was created to explain the requirements
of supervision and to clarify the assistance you can
receive from your Probation/Parole Officer and others.
Periodically, changes may occur in supervision
circumstances or conditions and your officer will advise
you of the changes. The purpose of supervision is to
help you lead a law abiding life and monitor your
activities and compliance while on
supervision.
Enforcing the conditions of a North Carolina Court or
another state is part of the supervision process and your
Probation/Parole Officer will review the conditions with
you.

The judge has ordered that you spend a specific amount of
time on probation while complying with certain conditions.
The same regular conditions apply to everyone under
supervision. Special conditions of probation are those
conditions that are specific to your case, and may or may not
be the same for someone convicted of a similar offense.
Circumstances in your case are unique, so the special
conditions of probation will be different.

What happens after the
sentences me to probation?

Your officer may refer you for assistance with the following:
drug/alcohol problems, anger management, mental health,
job readiness, vocational rehabilitation, education, housing
assistance, parenting, family counseling, residential treatment
or consumer credit counseling. The officer may utilize
Treatment Accountability for a Safer Community (TASC) to
help bridge these services, if applicable. You will have the
opportunity to make positive changes in your life with the
assistance of the agencies in your community. In addition to
the conditions ordered by the court, your probation officer
will ask you to complete worksheets designed to assist you in
thinking about how your choices are affecting your behavior.

Court

You will be assigned an officer after a brief intake
process the day you are in court. At your first
appointment, your officer will review the court judgment
with you and the expectations of probation supervision
to include regular and special conditions of probation
and any money you must pay to the State of North
Carolina.
Every person on probation will be assessed for their risk
and needs during the first 60 days of supervision. The
information is gathered by your officer through home
visits, office contacts, family contacts and the officer’s
observations which will help establish your priorities
during supervision. The assessments help your officer
determine how often you will need to report and
understand your needs which are related to your risk of
re-arrest. Your officer will help you begin to work
toward your goals and review these, along with the court
conditions on a regular basis.

Referrals to Community Resources and
Interventions

Rewards and Consequences with
Supervision
When individuals are in compliance with the conditions of
supervision, the probation officer may give incentives or
rewards such as changing curfews, allowing time for family
activities, requesting modification of conditions, less frequent
drug screening, decreasing frequency of reporting and
possible early termination from supervision.
When an individual does not comply, the probation officer
has a duty to respond. Possible consequences include the use
of delegated authority or having additional conditions
imposed by your probation officer or a formal violation
hearing before the court which may result in jail or prison
time.

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What does Delegated Authority mean?
Delegated Authority allows a probation officer to impose
certain additional requirements in structured sentencing
cases on a probationer without court involvement. The
probationer can either be in violation status or through the
Department’s risk assessment process be determined to be
high risk. In either situation, the probation officer can
impose additional requirements for the purpose of public
safety and/or changing your behavior. Completion of any
imposed activities can result in a lessening of requirements
when there are positive changes.

Periods of Confinement
For probationers placed on probation with offense dates
on or after 12/1/2011, the officer can use delegated
authority to require jail confinement for 2 to 3 days and for
no more than 6 days per month during any 3 separate
months. You will have the option to refuse the days in jail
which will automatically result in the violation(s) being
addressed in a formal violation hearing before the Court.
Violations may also result in an appearance before
the Court where a Confinement in Response
to
Violation (CRV) could be imposed as a response to
violations other than a new criminal offense or statutory
absconding. The Court may impose confinement of
90 days for a felony or up to 90 days for a DWI. The
Court may impose 2 to 3 days for no more than 6 days per
month during any 3 separate months for misdemeanors.
Upon completion of the CRV, you will be released back
into the community to complete the remainder of your
supervision period.

It is important to keep the lines of communication open
between you and your probation officer. You are required to
meet with your probation officer as specified on the date and
time set by the officer. If you can not keep a scheduled
appointment, you must call your Probation Officer ahead of
time when possible.

It is in your best interest to comply with the conditions
ordered by the court or your Probation Officer. By
abiding by both the regular and special conditions you can
avoid any violations and will successfully complete your
probation.
The benefits of abiding by your conditions, changing your
behavior and paying your fees as scheduled could mean the
early end of your probation.
This is a possibility, not a guarantee.

Emergency Contact
In the event of a natural disaster or catastrophe
(hurricanes, tornados, fire, etc.) and you are unable to
contact your probation officer due to the probation office
or your residence being affected, then you are to telephone
one of the following locations until you reach someone in
order for us to know your whereabouts and status during
the emergency. You should first attempt to contact your
assigned officer.

Probationers will be required to serve (2) two periods of
confinement before the Court can revoke the remainder of
the sentence.

Payments
A condition of your
the State of North
fines associated with
of North Carolina.
judgment.

probation
Carolina
violating
Amounts

may require you to pay
certain costs, fees and
the laws of the State
are specified on your

Your probation officer will total all your costs (including
the supervision fee) and determine a payment schedule.
This is the amount you must pay each month in order to
pay all the fees owed as ordered. You may pay more on
the monthly payment if you wish, but the minimum
payment is required. You may also pay all fees owed at
one time.
Payments are to be made to the Clerk in the county
where you were convicted. Online probation payments can
be made using the OCAP system at http://
onlineservices.nccourts.org/OCAP . Please have the county
where you were convicted and your case number available
when paying online.

Voting Rights
If you are convicted of a felony in North Carolina, you
forfeit your citizenship rights, including the right to vote.
If you had registered to vote prior to your conviction, the
registration has been cancelled by the County Board of
elections pursuant to N.C.G.S. 163-55. It shall be
unlawful for any person convicted of a crime which
excludes the person from the right of suffrage, to vote at
any primary or election without having been restored to
the right of citizenship in due course and by the method
provided by law. N.C.G.S. 163-275(5)
NC Department of Public Saftey
Community Corrections
2020 Yonkers Road MSC 4250
Raleigh, NC 27699-4250
Phone: 919-716-3100