Since such a large percentage of respondents are involved with illegal drugs, drug testing is a major part of the supervisory function provided by the Agency for the Court. The unit also provides testing for adults charged in the Superior Court with abuse and neglect of children. Judges sitting in neglect calendars consider drug testing essential for a variety of decisions if it appears that drug use is a factor in the neglect. The Administrative Services component, as the name suggests, handles all of the administrative and computer support functions of the Agency. Personnel consist of the Director, Deputy Director, and various individuals responsible for time and attendance, personnel, budget and cost analysis, procurement, inventory, receiving, information support services, health benefits, information systems, training, etc.
All individuals perform multiple functions.
Computer services staff performs disparate functions. One senior programmer specializes in these very extensive mainframe applications. Another individual serves as network administrator for this rapidly-expanding system. Another group of employees is responsible for quality control of all of the information maintained by the Agency, including the accurate tracking of cases, court dates, case dispositions, release conditions, addresses, and notification letters in both English and Spanish. For example, in 1997 the Agency sent out 42,186 letters reminding defendants of their court dates and 3,690 letters warning defendants to verify their address with the Agency.