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Dear Ms. Willard,

Your request for an Attorney General's Opinion has been forwarded to me for research and reply. In particular, you asked the following:

May the state or municipal courts utilize the services of a third party to supervise probationers and monitor "House Arrest Programs", and other terms of a sentence imposed as an alternative to incarceration?

For purposes of this opinion, probation and House Arrest Programs will be discussed separately.

PROBATION

The standards which govern suspension, deferral of sentence and probation in felony cases are found in C.Cr.P. Art. 893, providing in…