Public Accountability Report Public Accountability Report

2025 Probation Services
Mission Statement To develop, establish, promulgate, and enforce uniform standards for probation services in this state.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. Establish funding priorities that are consistent with identified policy and program initiatives, responsive to local needs and state mandates, and directed toward advancing the quality of probation services.
    Source of Funds General Revenue Fund, Supreme Court Federal Projects Fund Statutory Authority 730 ILCS 110/15
    Fiscal Year 2026 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2025 Actual Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2023 Actual
    Input Indicators
    Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) (a,b) $ 149,790.7 $ 170,029.9 $ 162,649.4 $ 154,389.9 $ 148,049.4
    Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 149,790.7 $ 170,029.9 $ 162,649.4 $ 154,389.9 $ 148,049.4
    Average monthly full-time equivalents 38.0 36.0 38.0 32.0 30.0
    Output Indicators
    Number of training events held for adult probation officers N/A 37.0 N/A 41.0 23.0
    Number of training events held for juvenile probation officers (c) N/A 136.0 N/A 26.0 16.0
    Number of training events held for detention probation officers N/A 141.0 N/A 92.0 37.0
    Number of probation officers who received basic training N/A 280.0 N/A 482.0 405.0
    Number of supervised probationers (d) N/A 134,201 N/A 111,376 122,953
    Number of training events, nonspecific (adult, detention) N/A 290.0 N/A 188.0 83.0
    Number of participants in training events held for adult probation officers N/A 715.0 N/A 1,446 326.0
    Number of participants in training events held for juvenile probation officers (c) N/A 1,373 N/A 290.0 101.0
    Number of participants in training events held for detention probation officers N/A 1,245 N/A 914.0 369.0
    Number of basic training events held for probation/detention officers (c) N/A 332.0 N/A 136.0 95.0
    Number of participants in training events, nonspecific (adult, detention) N/A 2,127 N/A 2,275 642.0
    Outcome Indicators
    Percentage of probation terms successfully completed: adult N/A 37.73% N/A 43.80% 39.92%
    Percentage of probation terms revoked: adult N/A 6.60% N/A 9.16% 5.32%
    Efficiency/Cost-Effectiveness Indicators
    Average annual cost per offender: standard (in dollars) N/A $ 3,341.75 N/A $ 982.00 $ 928.00
    Average annual cost per offender: juvenile detention (in dollars) N/A $ 7,804.45 N/A $ 7,804.00 $ 6,836.00
    Average caseload per probation officer: adult and juvenile (e) N/A 76.0 N/A 62.0 59.0
    Footnotes
    Additional funding is provided to local governments for operating costs. Pretrial funding was transferred to the Office of Pretrial Services when it split from our agency. The increase in training in fiscal year 2025 is due to more available trainers, more trainings conducted with partners, the implementation and rollout of the Illinois Effective Practices in Supervision Program, and the transition to requiring all probation and detention officers to do live training each year. Data includes adult and juvenile probationers as of the end of the state fiscal year (June 30). It does not include juveniles in detention. Probation officers supervise both adult and juvenile caseloads.

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