Default to hybrid or fully remote reporting options during disasters.
When a disaster suspends in-person reporting, agencies should default to telephone and video contact and should retain both as standing options once the disaster has passed. Participants in this study credited that shift with making supervision possible to fulfill during the pandemic and, in several cases, with streamlining agency operations that had been inefficient long before it.
Part A: Disaster Recommendation
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In 2024, A Participant In an interview stated:
If anything, COVID was great for parole, 'cause... it streamlined the whole process. They got people in the habit of scheduling appointments for their POs. There'd be less waiting in the lobby.”
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