The News Sentinel reports in a brief blurb this morning that PSI Probation II, LLC has quietly assumed operation of the County’s probation services this week, with five of the former Anderson County probation employees on the payroll.
Anderson County Mayor Rex Lynch earlier this year decided to end the county probation department after seven years in operation.
Lynch said that while the department had been turning a profit, it had been dogged by unfounded controversies.
Maybe it’s true that a management change will make the difference, in spite of Lynch’s assertion in August that former Probation Director Alan Beauchamp wasn’t the problem.
The controversies were well founded and his inability to ethically deal with them and make a change at the top led to this result. Because of his and the DA’s accommodating attitude in dealing with these controversies there will always be a cloud of suspicion hanging over Mr. Lynch’s administration.