Pretrial Risk Assessment Compliance SB36 & AB3364

In compliance with Senate Bill 36 and Assembly Bill 3364, regarding pretrial risk assessment tools, Placer County Probation, being the “local public agency” that performs pretrial assessments on individuals and provides the assessment information to a court, uses the Virginia Pretrial Assessment Tool.  The validation study of the Virginia Pretrial Assessment was completed in December of 2022 and is available here for review: VPRAI-R Validation Report.

The Final report for the Creation and Validation of the Virginia Pretrial Assessment currently used can be found at:  https://www.dcjs.virginia.gov/sites/dcjs.virginia.gov/files/publications/corrections/assessing-risk-among-pretrial-defendants-virginia-virginia-pretrial-risk-assessment-instrument.pdf

Santa Barbara County recently revised their assessment, therefore Placer County will shift to the revised Virginia Pretrial Assessment (VPRAI-R) in order to utilize and remain consistent with Santa Barbara County’s data, a similar jurisdiction as Placer County.  The Final report for the Creation and Validation of the revised Virginia Pretrial Assessment can be found at: https://www.ncsc.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0021/1668/race-and-gender-neutral-pretrial-risk-assessment-release-recommendations-and-supervision.ashx.pdf

Current and historical Placer County Pretrial information.