In compliance with Senate Bill 36 and Assembly Bill 3364, regarding pretrial risk assessment tools, Sutter County Probation, being the "local public agency" that performs pretrial assessments on individuals and provides the assessment information to a court, uses the Public Safety Assessment (PSA) Pretrial Assessment Tool. Validation studies and transparency data can be found http://jcc.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=9051052&GUID=3701204A-0F6B-470F-8FFE-F353F6B50E01 whereupon Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties' data is used as it is a similar jurisdiction as Sutter County.

The final report for creation and validation of the Public Safety Assessment (PSA) can be found at: 3-Predictive-Utility-Study.pdf (craftmediabucket.s3.amazonaws.com)