---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 3682"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "3682"
heading: "Assistant probation officers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/3682"
units:
  - "Chapter 38A — Indian Tribal Justice Technical and Legal Assistance"
  - "Subchapter II — Indian Tribal Courts"
---

# §3682. Assistant probation officers


To the maximum extent practicable, the chief judge or chief probation or pretrial services officer of each judicial district, in coordination with the [Office of Tribal Justice](/usc/25/3653.md?p=7) and the Office of Justice Services, shall—

- (1) appoint individuals residing in Indian country to serve as probation or pretrial services officers or assistants for purposes of monitoring and providing services to Federal prisoners residing in Indian country; and
- (2) provide substance abuse, mental health, and other related treatment services to offenders residing on Indian land.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–559, title II, § 203, as added Pub. L. 111–211, title II, § 245, July 29, 2010, 124 Stat. 2295.)