Citations:VOP

violation of probation

 * 2004, Criminal justice review
 * if sex offenders had been sentenced to specialized probation compared to standard probation and had a VOP filed for only technical violations, had only  one VOP filed for treatment noncompliance, or had a new arrest for any crime. Of  those who had a VOP filed for only technical violations, 36.5 percent of the  specialized sample, compared to 20 percent of the standard sample, were  revoked. Judges also were somewhat more likely to revoke probation in the  specialized sample (62.8 ...
 * 2003, New Jersey. Supreme Court, Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of New Jersey
 * The legislature has declared that that occurs when the court issues an arrest warrant or summons a defendant to appear or when a defendant is arrested  without a warrant thus precipitating a court proceeding. On the contrary, the mere  filing of a VOP document remains an initiative of the probation department until  defendant is summoned by the court, an arrest warrant issues, or until defendant  is arrested. Thus, Grabinski mis-identified the commencement point of a  probation ...

Voice of the People

 * 2007, Arch Puddington, Aili Piano, Camille Eiss, Tyler Roylance, Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, Rowman & Littlefield (ISBN 9780742558977), page 905
 * In December 2005, police and government officials raided the Harare office of the independent Voice of the People ( VOP) radio station, confiscating equipment  and files and arresting three employees. Six members of the VOP&#39;s board of  trustees were also arrested and charged with broadcasting without a license. In  order to circumvent Zimbabwe&#39;s restrictive laws, VOP broadcasts locally  produced programs into the country from the Netherlands. In 2005, the  government began using ...
 * 2009, Zimbabwe: A Survey, African Minds (ISBN 9781920355265), page 43
 * In August 2002 VoP&#39;s offices in Harare were destroyed in a bomb blast set off by unknown assailants. Police are still to bring those responsible to book. In  December 2005, VoP was closed down by the state after police raided its offices,  seized its equipment and arrested three female journalists. VoP then relocated its  production studios to South Africa. All material is sent via Internet to South Africa  where the programme is put together, sent on to the Netherlands, again by  Internet, and ...
 * 2006, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Report Submitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives and Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate by the Department of State in Accordance with Sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as Amended
 * Voice of the People (VOP) broadcasts daily from the Netherlands. On December 15, police raided the VOP Harare offices, confiscated equipment and files, and  arrested th. administrative staff. On December 19, the government initially  charged the staff in court for operating a broadcast service without a government  license and working as journalists without accreditation; however, they were  released after the attorney general determined that they were neither journalists  nor owners of ...
 * 2009, Kevin Howley, Understanding Community Media: SAGE Publications, SAGE Publications (ISBN 9781483342856)
 * Programs are produced by journalists based in the country and then shipped or e -mailed to the Netherlands for transmission via Radio Netherlands&#39; relay transmission in Madagascar. Radio VOP promotes the works of prodemocracy  organizations such as Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, National  Constitutional Assembly, Zimbabwe Electoral Support Network, and many others.  For this, Radio VOP has been a target of harassment by government through  raids, arrests, jamming, ...
 * 2008, Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Eleanor Marchant, Freedom of the Press 2007: A Global Survey of Media Independence, Rowman & Littlefield (ISBN 9780742555822), page 331
 * Six members of the VOP&#39;s board of trustees were also arrested and charged in January 2006 with broadcasting without a license, but after several court  appearances, a judge dismissed the case in September. Professional and media  monitoring organizations — such as the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, the  Media Monitoring Project of Zimbabwe, and the local chapter of the Media  Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)-Zimbabwe — were subject to official  harassment during 2006.