Community Service
PH: 256-241-2942
Fax 256-231-1747
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Court ordered community service assigned from the local courts.
Q. What is community service assignment?
A. Court ordered community service clients are assigned by the courts and supervised by the Calhoun County Commission. It is a labor force that is assigned to various non-profit organizations, litter control, animal control, parks and recreations, churches and many other community based activities.
Q. Are the court ordered community service clients inmates?
A. No, they're people just like you and me, who because of certain minor infractions of the law have been given probation and court ordered by the judges to assist the community.
Q. What types of offenses did they commit to obtain community service?
A. Usually minor infractions of the law where they cannot pay their fine such as traffic offenses, and other minor misdemeanor offenses or felonies. Instead of throwing them in jail and burdening the taxpayer, they're put to work.
Q. Are these clients dangerous criminals?
A. Typically clients are carefully screened by the judges and probation officers before they are selected to perform community service work.
Q. Are there a lot of community service workers ordered by the courts?
A. Since the programs inception in 2000 over 66,376 hours have been ordered by the courts. This converts to a labor fee of over $190,000 saved by the taxpayers for jobs performed helping the community.