Opinion No.

The Honorable Jack Critcher State Representative Post Office Box 79 Grubbs, Arkansas 72431-0079

Dear Representative Critcher:

This is in response to your request for an opinion concerning juvenile court probation officers. In your letter, you indicate that the audit of Poinsett County for the year ending December 31, 1995, revealed unaccounted for funds in the amount of $2,277.75 which were retained by two juvenile court probation officers.1 You further indicate that only one of the individuals is currently employed as a probation officer, and the audit indicates he retained $2,096.25 that…