Fairbanks Probation Office

Fairbanks Probation Office basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 907-458-6830

FAIRBANKS PROBATION OFFICE

The Fairbanks District Office currently is charged with oversight of felony offenders, including tracking offenders who have absconded from probation and/or parole. The office is responsible for a geographic area extending from the Alaska Range to the Brooks Range, including the Tanana and Yukon River watersheds - over 37% of Alaska and an area greater than the size of California, the Nation's third largest state.

Most (well over 60%) of the probation district's approximately 800 supervised offenders live within the Fairbanks metropolitan area. The probation district contains a total of more than 40 communities, with populations ranging in size from approximately 31,000 (Fairbanks) to fewer than 10 (e.g., Kallands). Usually, the District supervises offenders living in about half of those communities. Many of them are fly-in only, with no road connection.

The office is staffed by two District Supervisors, 11 probation- parole officers (10 of whom supervise offenders and the one who writes presentence reports on a full-time basis), three criminal justice technicians, and one office assistant. Three probation officers provide supervision to specialized caseloads: sex offenders, chronically mentally ill offenders, and Felony Driving Under the Influence offenders. Two probation officers supervise drug-related and high-risk offenders. Two other probation officers supervise the rural regions. Of those, one supervises the rural areas near the road system - south from Fairbanks on the Richardson Highway to the Canadian Border, and also south on the Parks Highway to Cantwell. The other "rural" probation officer supervises the area north of Fairbanks to the Brooks Mountain Range and east to Kaltag, all of which is primarily inaccessible by road.

PROBATION AND PAROLE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
• Develop and maintain public safety through supervision standards in conjunction with the Regional Chief Probation Officers. Provide for public safety through supervision of adult felons in Probation and Parole jurisdiction.
• Standardize Probation Officer training and the delivery of probation/parole services throughout the state.
• Establish uniform risk management tools for general offenders and sex offenders.
• Increase supervision of high-risk sex offenders. Continue to develop the Interagency Sex Offender Working Group to improve interagency coordination, policy, practices and other methods for managing sex offender risk to victims and potential victims.
• Maintain and enhance communications with the criminal justice system throughout the state.
• Research and develop alternatives to incarceration while providing protection for the public. Identify and implement intermediate sanctions programs statewide.
• Continue to explore the application of neighborhood-based supervision/community policing system.
• Expand the use of minimum banks and 1-900 telephone numbers for low-risk probation and parole clients.
• Provide supervision to offenders to assist them in dealing with problems that may have led to their arrests and convictions.
• Improve officer safety and increase specialized training.
• Increase offender accountability to victim and the community by implementing victim impact classes for offenders across the state; developing a pool of interagency facilitators and speakers to increase information, resources and support for victims; and increase in offender restitution/fine collection and community work service hours.
• Improve victim services in the Division of Probation and Parole by a) increased community education programs on victim services; b) identification of current victim services; and c) development of materials, forms, and policy changes as needed to insure they are more victim sensitive.
• Preserve and enhance agricultural assets through farm rehabilitative programs.
• Provide adult basic educational and life skills to offender population.
• Provide substance abuse education/counseling to offender population.