Orange County Probation Department

The Orange County Probation Department is a confirmed member of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department AVCC consortium, listed on the Schedule A attached to Santa Ana PD’s contract (N-2023-294, October 2023) and administered through ILJAOC as the billing intermediary.

A probation department’s presence in a law enforcement investigative database consortium is worth examining on its own terms. Probation officers supervise people who have been convicted or are awaiting trial, including many immigrants and individuals with pending cases. Probation department access to PSDEX — including jail booking data from contributing agencies across the country — means that supervision decisions, home visits, and revocation proceedings could be informed by data pulled from the national LexisNexis network.

Orange County Probation manages supervision for the county’s approximately 7,000 adult probationers. California’s SB54 sanctuary law applies, but probation supervision involves a distinct legal relationship with individuals that may create different data-sharing dynamics than patrol policing.