AGO Opinion Topics: INTERSTATE COMPACT

The Board of Prison Terms and Paroles may not appoint a parole officer of another state to act as an agent of that state, nor may a Washington parole officer act as agent of another state.

The Board of Prison Terms and Paroles has jurisdiction to return to this state a person on probation under a suspended sentence, who has been permitted by the board to return to her home state under the interstate compact, and there violated the terms of her probation.  The Board of Prison Terms and Paroles shall be required to pay all costs of returning to this state a probationer who has violated her probation in a compact state.