Mark Rodriguez and Mark Harvey of Paperless Business Solutions, consultants to JTAC, began working with the Harrison County Juvenile Probation Department a few months ago in order to pilot Odyssey Supervision.    Odyssey Supervision pulls case and financial data from the court and clerk side of Odyssey and allows probation officers the ability to enter and track the following:  drug screens and medications, report on case activity, sanctions and administrative hearings, juvenile referrals, contact management and the ability to add documents to the case such as pre-sentence and pre-dispositional reports.

On Tuesday, April 27^th, the first supervision case was entered into Odyssey Supervision!  To date, the staff of the juvenile probation department have entered active cases, updated party info, added scheduled appointments, added contact notes, added referrals, assigned cases to a juvenile officer, posted charges on a new case, received payment and printed a receipt, reconciled the till, and printed a Receipt Journal Report and delivered it to the county auditor. 

Melani Kerr, a juvenile probation officer, was able to view her scheduled appointments (entered by Karen Melton, administrative assistant) and view the cases that have been assigned to her on her individual “Workspace” in Odyssey. 

The Juvenile Probation Department staff intends to enter over 154 active cases into Odyssey Supervision.  JTAC thanks Juvenile Probation Department Chief Elizabeth Day, Melani, Karen, Christa Manus and Judge H. Lloyd Whitis for piloting Odyssey Supervision!  JTAC will continue to pilot Odyssey Supervision with the Harrison County Adult Probation Department and the Warren County Probation Department in the coming weeks.