Report 2021-113 Recommendation 29 Responses

Report 2021-113: Batterer Intervention Programs: State Guidance and Oversight Are Needed to Effectively Reduce Domestic Violence (Release Date: October 2022)

Recommendation #29 To: Los Angeles County Probation Department

To ensure that the courts can provide an offender with a selection of available program providers and their costs before the offender agrees to attend a program as a condition of probation, Los Angeles Probation should maintain standard program fee information and sliding fee scales for each of the providers it oversees, and make this information available to the courts by April 2023.

1-Year Agency Response

In April 2023, The Los Angeles County Probation Department met with and provided the courts with an updated approved Batterer's Intervention Program list. The list included available program providers, their program fee range, and a sliding scale indicator. The courts uploaded the approved list onto the Court's public website.

However, the Los Angeles County Probation Department has nearly one hundred and forty Providers. During our recent annual application process, we have collected the required data and fee scales for each program. We will compile all fee scales into one document to be presented the courts, to be placed on their public website.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Pending

All Recommendations in 2021-113

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.