probation
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District Attorney Nathan Hochman launched an investigation using law-enforcement databases with records of virtually everyone the county had prosecuted since the 1960s, including juveniles whose files had been scrubbed from the probation department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
He himself is out on probation for a harassment charge he garnered last year in a Steak ’n Shake, a business he is now permanently banned from entering.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
And those consequences tend to be mild: Several incidents in the Washington Post piece resulted in probation for offenders who used Flock inappropriately.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
During the visit, guards saw Randall try to pass a blue balloon to her son, a deputy probation officer wrote in the report.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
I was to report to a branch called West Area Computing and would be on probation for six months.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
"We need make sure our communities are safe and criminals are taken back to prison when they break the terms of their probations," her eldest daughter Jess said.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025
Documents may include formal accusations, which detail allegations of gross negligence and other violations; letters of reprimand; and disciplinary orders spelling out stipulated agreements, suspensions, revocations and probations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2021
Their protests earned them 12-month probations from the U.S.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2020
The terms of the probations haven’t been announced, however.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 12, 2015
Little by little, through divers probations, we begin to feel ground under our feet.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various
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