Girtha Smith

Parole Officer @Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC)

Cleveland/Akron, OH, US

Oversees offenders; interviews, visits, and observes offenders at residence, work site, or other community locations.• Utilizes evidence-based supervision practices to facilitate behavioral change in offenders.• Interviews offenders and reviews documents, records, and reports to develop case plans in conjunction with offenders to address identified risk factors.• Maintains and reviews case plans with offenders throughout the supervision period to gauge progress on established goals.• Conducts visual and auditory surveillance, including operating electronic monitoring.• Oversees caseloads requiring special training to supervise substance abusers, drug offenders, sex offenders, special releasees, and special needs offenders as needed.• Conducts and completes placement, arrest, and violation investigations by interviewing individuals, reading, and understanding technical information, including medical, psychological, law enforcement, and legal documents.• Completes and submits appropriate reports of investigations, making correctional recommendations for judges, parole administrators, or parole board members in sentencing and revocation procedures.• Updates and uses records through field officer tools (FOT), recording offender case activity and officer activity.• Travels to offender homes, places of employment, jails, and courts by operating a personal vehicle.• Screens inmates to determine eligibility and makes recommendations for transfer into transitional control programs.• Conducts and completes clemency and other investigations by interviewing individuals and understanding technical information, including medical, psychological, law enforcement, and legal documents.• Arrests violators and conducts search and seizure of contraband, using force as needed, such as applying unarmed self-defense techniques or using restraining devices like handcuffs, belly chains, leg irons, and OC spray/pepper gas.

Ursuline College

Social Work