PURPOSE: This regulation complies with section 536.023, RSMo (1986) which requires each agency to adopt as a rule a description of its operation and the methods where the public may obtain information or make submissions or requests.

1. (1) The State Board of Probation and Parole is a division of the Department of Corrections. The board’s primary duties are to release persons on parole from the state adult correctional institutions; to supervise these parolees; when necessary, to revoke these parolees; to provide investigative and supervisory services for the criminal courts of the state; to provide investigative and supervisory services for other states through the Interstate Compact for the Supervision of Parolees and Probationers; and to investigate and make recommendations to the governor in all cases of executive clemency.
2. (2) Under the provisions of section 610.025(1), RSMo, proceedings involving probation and parole are authorized as closed meetings not open to the public.

AUTHORITY: sections 217.690, 217.720 and 217.755, RSMo 1986. This rule was previously filed as 13 CSR 80-1.010. Original rule filed May 13, 1976, effective Nov. 11, 1976. *Original authority: 217.690, RSMo 1982; 217.720, RSMo 1982; and 217.755, RSMo 1982.