California Code of Regulations
Title 15 - Crime Prevention and Corrections
Division 3 - Adult Institutions, Programs and Parole
Chapter 1 - Rules and Regulations of Adult Operations and Programs
Subchapter 6 - Adult Parole
Article 18 - Parole Holds
Section 3750 - Authority to Place a Parole Hold

(a) If the parole agent has probable cause, as described in Section 3753, to believe the supervised person has violated conditions of parole or of the law, the parole agent may arrest the supervised person without a warrant at any time during the period of parole supervision and bring them before the court for final adjudication, pursuant to Penal Code (PC) Section 1203.2.

(b) The parole hold decision must be made in every case regardless of the type of crime or parole violation with which the supervised person is charged or whether another criminal justice agency is detaining the supervised person.

(c) A parole agent may impose a parole hold when the parole agent determines that the supervised person falls within the criteria listed in Section 3751, and upon review by the unit supervisor, there is probable cause to believe the supervised person has violated parole and the parole hold is appropriate.

(d) Pursuant to PC Sections 3000.08(c) and/or 3056, a parole agent may place a parole hold on a supervised person when the supervised person has been confined in a county jail facility as the result of a technical violation and/or a new criminal charge as a result of the violation of the law described in subsection 3750(a), or may arrest a supervised person and place them in a county jail facility on a parole hold pending investigation of the alleged parole violations or new violations of the law.

(e) When determining whether or not to place a parole hold, the parole agent may do the following: