Woodland, CA (MPG) – On Tuesday, December 17 at 9:00 a.m., the Board of Supervisors will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony to commemorate the grand opening of the Probation Department’s new headquarters at the Historic Yolo County Courthouse, located at 725 Court Street in Woodland.

Approximately 66 Probation Department employees are expected to move into the building in January 2020 from the following programs: Juvenile & Adult Probation units, Juvenile & Adult Court units, Pre-Trial Services, and Finance & Administration. The building will provide much-needed professional facilities for the Probation Department to operate which include: meeting spaces for safe and effective case management of probationers; adequate conference rooms for meetings and training; and a field officer training/exercise room. 

“With the Public Defender’s office next door and the District Attorney office across the street, the Court and local law enforcement in an adjacent neighborhood, and the Sheriff and our colleagues in the Health and Human Services Agency within a few miles of our site, we are now geographically connected, just as we have been connected in our commitment to reforming and enhancing community corrections,” said Yolo County Chief Probation Officer Dan Fruchtenicht. “We are happy to return to this neighborhood, which is committed to safe communities and thriving residents.”

The Historic Yolo County Courthouse was built in 1917. In 1987, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It served as the Superior Court of California’s Yolo County Courthouse until the new courthouse was built in 2015.

Tours of the new Probation Department headquarters will be conducted directly following the ribbon cutting until 10:30 a.m.