The Kootenai County Adult Misdemeanor Probation Department serves as an instrument for the First District Court in executing supervised probation to those ordered. Probationers are pro-actively supervised to promote public safety, court order compliance, and accountability. It is also the mission of this department to help reduce incarceration rates and mitigate the risks for re-offense by directing and assisting probationers in personal and community adjustment.

The staff at Adult Misdemeanor Probation believes that every person who is found guilty of a crime has made a conscious choice, a choice with consequences. We believe that most people can change their attitudes, beliefs and behaviors, if they want to. But they must also be held accountable for their poor and illegal choices. It is the desire and goal of this probation office to help bring about positive change in people, so that they may be successful, law-abiding and contributing members of the community. Those on probation who have contrary desires will usually find themselves in jail.