El Dorado County hires probation chief
El Dorado County Probation Department will finally have a leader on Dec. 2.
Brian Richart has been appointed chief probation officer.
Greg Sly left the top spot in June on medical leave. He officially retired Sept. 13. Days before his last official day Sly sent a document to each member of the Board of Supervisors. The contents of which have not been disclosed by anyone. Sly told Lake Tahoe News he does not want to talk at this time about any further dealings he may have with the county.
Richart was hired away from Alameda County. He was hired in 2011 as chief of staff overseeing the administrative function of Human Resources, Fiscal, Information Technology Unit, Training, Information Services and Research, and Quality Assurance. Since July, he has been acting director of Adult Field Services.
Prior to that he was president of Assessments.com, a software developer. From 2006-10 he was chief probation officer for Shasta County. He spent 13 years with the Shasta department.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
Boy does he have his work cut out for him. Good luck there, Brian.
I agree copper. I was a probation employee, and I was run off because I didn’t tolerate the harassment. Its funny to me that Mr Sly participated in El Dorado Counties BS toward other employees, yet he doesn’t want to discuss his personal case. Funny to me to that he discouraged employees from filing suits against the county, yet at the same time he was filing one of his own. Good luck Brian. Lets hope he’s not a part of “The Boys Club”.
I don’t have a lot to add here, Joe, but my dealings with El Dorado County Probation go clear back to the mid seventies, when Judge Fogerty ruled the roost, and every decent probation officer was run off as quickly as their skills were recognized. My observation was that they kept driving the good folks off until they got the quality of subservience they were looking for.
I haven’t had a dog in this contest in a lot of years, but I wish Brian the best of wishes, regardless.
I still wonder about the folks hereabouts who would prefer that El Dorado County take over public safety services from the City.