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County, probation department debate who pays as SCORE/VALOR residential program expands
Summary
County staff told Commissioners Court on Aug. 5 that Collin County is housing about 51 residential supervision participants in SCORE and VALOR programs, many sentenced by other counties, and warned the state’s recent grant to CSCD may not cover the county’s housing, medical and staffing costs.
County staff and Collin County Community Supervision and Corrections Department (CSCD) officials discussed the county’s role in housing residential probation participants in the SCORE and VALOR programs at the Aug. 5 budget workshop and flagged a potential shortfall between state aid and county costs.
Yoon Kim, the county administrator, told the court the county was housing about 51 participants in the SCORE and VALOR residential programs on Aug. 5: 26 in SCORE and 25 in VALOR. The county estimates roughly two‑thirds of those participants were sentenced by other counties and are housed in Collin County’s minimum‑security facility under the SCORE/VALOR contract arrangement. Kim said CSCD has proposed a contract payment of about $1,314,500 for FY‑2026 — an increase over prior…
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