Shawna Garcia

Supervising Deputy Probation Officer, Placer County

Shawna Garcia has served with the Placer County Probation Department for more than 22 years. She began her career at the Juvenile Detention Facility, where she spent seven and a half years, including two and a half years as a supervisor. She later worked in Juvenile Field Services, supporting juvenile court operations, report preparation, early intervention, and intensive services. Her experience also includes Adult Field Services, where she managed moderate- and high-risk caseloads, served as a drug court officer in a collaborative court, and worked in pretrial services and alternative sentencing.
As a supervisor, Shawna has led adult field services programs encompassing pretrial and alternative sentencing, Post Release Community Supervision, mandatory supervision, domestic violence caseloads, low-risk supervision, and the Placer Reentry Program. She currently serves as one of two supervisors overseeing the Juvenile Field Services Unit. Shawna has been a weaponless defensive tactics instructor for the department for 15 years. For the past 12 years, she has also served as the department’s lead instructor and as a subject matter expert for Evident Change’s Correctional Assessment and Intervention System and Juvenile Assessment and Intervention System risk-needs assessments and supervision models. She earned her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Sacramento State University in 2004.