Probation Agency Gets New Director

Calvin C. Remington, who has served as the No. 2 person in the county’s probation department for the past four years, has been named the agency’s director, Chief Administrative Officer Lin Koester said Thursday.

Remington, 51, officially takes the top post on Saturday.

Both the Board of Supervisors and the county’s judiciary decided last month that Remington should replace the retiring Frank Woodson as director of the Corrections Services Agency, Koester said.

“The board felt that after discussing it with the courts and other people that he would be an outstanding director,” Koester said.

On Wednesday, Koester approved a new contract for Remington that will pay him a monthly salary of $7,814, or $93,768 annually.

Remington was unavailable for comment Thursday.

He assumes leadership of an agency in the midst of launching a boot camp for juvenile offenders and a $4.5-million program in south Oxnard designed to turn youths away from violence with help from police, probation officers and neighborhood mentors.

“Cal has worked his way up the ranks,” said Barbara Journet, acting director of the county’s Human Resources Department. “He was highly supported for the director’s position by the employees, managers and the unions.”

Remington was first employed by the county as a probation officer in December 1974.

By October 1976, he had been promoted to deputy probation officer. Three months later he was promoted to supervising deputy probation officer.

In 1978, he was appointed as a corrections facility supervisor, and in 1980 he became a manager of corrections facilities.

Remington was named deputy director of the Corrections Services Agency--the No. 2 position in the agency--in June 1993.