20-346a. Parole and court services officers; retention of benefits.
20-346a
20-346a. Parole and court services officers; retention of benefits.
(a) The department of corrections shall have the functions and duties
provided by law with regard to
providing parole officers for felons
placed on parole by the Kansas adult authority but shall not provide parole officers
for the supervision of misdemeanants placed on parole by the district courts
of this state. The department of corrections shall provide the visitation,
supervision and other services regarding probationers and parolees which
are required under the uniform act for out-of-state parolee supervision.
(b) All court services
officers supervising adults
and juveniles placed on probation by the district courts of this state and
all court services officers supervising misdemeanants placed
on parole by the district
courts of this state shall be appointed by the district courts as provided
by law. The supreme court shall prescribe the qualifications required of
persons appointed as court services officers of
the district courts.
The compensation of court services officers of
the district courts
shall be paid by the state either in accordance with a compensation plan
adopted by the supreme court or as may be otherwise specifically provided by law.
(c) Any probation and parole
officers of the department of corrections who were terminated from service
as officers and employees of that department because of the transfer of
functions and duties from that department to the district courts under this
section and who were appointed as court
services officers of the district courts
pursuant to this subsection as it existed prior to amendment by this
act shall retain all retirement benefits and, to the extent feasible and compatible
with the provisions of the judicial personnel system relating to nonjudicial
employees of the district courts, these appointments shall be deemed to
be transfers with all rights of civil service which had accrued to those
officers and employees prior to July 1, 1979, and the service of each officer
and employee so appointed and transferred shall be deemed to have been continuous.
History: L. 1978, ch. 120, § 14; L. 1984, ch. 112, § 2; July 1.