TDCJ-CJAD Data Manual - Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Page 13 of 15CSCD STAFF (CONT.)Do you report pretrial CSO (Section III.A.) as a paid CSCD CSO or as paid CSCD staff? ACSCD has one pretrial CSO who has a direct pretrial caseload whose offenders report to himonce a week.Total Number of Community Supervision Officers Employed (Item III.A. or III.B.) refers toCSOs who are supervising one or more direct cases. Pretrialdoes not qualify as direct.Therefore, pretrial CSOs should be counted under Total Number of Non-CommunitySupervision Officers Employed (Item III.C. or III.D.)How to report staff if CSO has supervisory responsibilities/caseloads in two counties?First priority is given to the office location. If the CSO has an office in one county but not theother, count the CSO as staff in the county where the office is located. If the CSO has offices inboth counties, second priority is time spent. If more time is spent in one county, then count CSOas staff in county with the most time spent. Last priority is to count CSO in the main (not thesatellite) county of the CSCD.A CSCD has part-time staff (senior citizen) who is not hired by CSCD but is placed by federalagency and paid for with federal funds (i.e., volunteer). How should this be reported on theMCSCR?Do not report on MCSCR because they do not qualify for state benefits.PROGRAMS AND INTERVENTIONS - MCSCR PAGE 3In the residential activity section of the report, should a separate record be submitted for eachagency with which we contract for residential substance abuse services?No. A single record or set of counts should be reported for each type of contract residentialservices. For substance abuse treatment, the services should be coded as CRS: SAT. For othercategories of facilities (CCF and CCC), each facility should be accounted for with a separaterecord or count.A misdemeanor offender is on electronic monitoring and is being reported on Page 3 of theMCSCR. The offender is then placed on a new probation for a felony charge (changing hisstatus to felon for reporting purposes). How should this be reported for the ELM on Page 3?Count the offender in the misdemeanor beginning of month (BOM) count and report the offenderas a misdemeanor discharge (DEL). Also, report the offender as a felony placement (ADD) andcount the offender in the felony end of month count (EOM).- 35 ­