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appointed shall be appointed only for the remainder of such term. " (d)(1) In each of the five demonstration districts in which pretrial service agencies are established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, the pretrial service officer shall be a Federal probation officer of the district designated for this purpose by the Chief of the Division of Probation and shall be compensated at a rate not in excess of the rate prescribed for GS-16 by section 5332 of title 5, United States Code. "(2) I n each of the five remaining demonstration districts in which pretrial service agencies are established pursuant to subsection (b)(1) of this section, after reviewing the recommendations of the judges of the district court to be served by the agency, each such Board of Trustees shall appoint a chief pretrial service officer, who shall be compensated at a rate to be established by the chief judge of the court, but not in excess of the rate prescribed for GS-15 by section 5332 of title 5, United States Code. "(3) The designated probation officer or the chief pretrial service officer, subject to the general policy established by the Division of Probation or the Board of Trustees, respectively, shall be responsible for the direction and supervision of the agency and may appoint and fix the compensation of such other personnel as may be necessary to staff such agency, and may appoint such experts and consultants as may be necessary, pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States Code. The compensation of such personnel so appointed shall be comparable to levels of compensation established under chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code. "§3154. Functions and powers of pretrial services agencies. is use 3154. "Each pretrial services agency shall perform such of the following functions as the district court to be served may specify: "(1) Collect, verify, and report promptly to the judicial officer information pertaining to the pretrial release of each person charged with an offense, and recommend appropriate release conditions for each such person, but such information as may be contained in the agency's files or presented in its report or which shall be divulged during the course of any hearing shall be used only for the purpose of a bail determination and shall otherwise be confidential. In their respective districts, the Division of Pro- Regulations. bation or the Board of Trustees shall issue regulations establishing policy on the release of agency files. Such regulations shall create an exception to the confidentiality requirement so that such information shall be available to members of the agency's staff' and to qualified persons for purposes of research related to the administration of criminal justice. Such regulations may create . an exception to the confidentiality requirement so that access to agency files will be permitted by agencies under contract pursuant to paragraph (4) of this section; to probation officers for the purpose of compiling a presentence report and in certain limited cases to law enforcement agencies for law enforcement purposes. In no case shall such information be admissible on the issue of guilt in any judicial proceeding, and in their respective districts, the Division of Probation or the Board of Trustees may permit such information to be used on the issue of guilt for a crime committed in the course of obtaining pretrial release. "(2) Eeview and modify the reports and recommendations specified in paragraph (1) for persons seeking release pursuant to section 3146(e) or section 3147. ^is use sue, "(3) Supervise persons released into its custody under this chapter.

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