Georgia § 42-3-53 - Placement with appropriate agency; approval by court; report of offender's performance.

§ 42-3-53. Placement with appropriate agency; approval by court; report of offender's performance.

The community service officer shall place an offender sentenced to community service or educational advancement with an appropriate agency. The agency and work schedule shall be approved by the court. If the offender is employed at the time of sentencing or if the offender becomes employed after sentencing, the community service officer shall consider the offender's work schedule and, to the extent practicable, shall schedule the community service or educational advancement so that it will not conflict with the offender's work schedule. This scheduling accommodation shall not be construed as requiring the community service officer to alter scheduled community service or educational advancement based on changes in an offender's work schedule. The community service officer shall supervise the offender for the duration of the sentence which requires community service or educational advancement. Upon completion of the such sentence, the community service officer shall prepare a written report evaluating the offender's performance which shall be used to determine if the conditions of probation or sentence have been satisfied. (Code 1981, § 42-3-53 , enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 1-1/HB 310; Ga. L. 2018, p. 550, § 2-11/SB 407.) The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, substituted "or educational advancement" for "as a condition of probation" in the first sentence, inserted "or educational advancement" in the third and fourth sentences, inserted "scheduling accommodation" near the beginning of the fourth sentence, substituted "sentence which requires community service or educational advancement" for "community service sentence" in the next-to-last sentence, and, in the last sentence, substituted "such" for "community service" near the middle, and inserted "or sentence" near the end. Editor's notes. - This Code section is the same as or substantially similar to former Code Section 42-8-73. Law reviews. - For article on the 2018 amendment of this Code section, see 35 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 45 (2018).