Legal Guidelines

These state guides explain how community service works in each state's courts and what completing your hours online involves. Each one covers how courts there assign community service hours, how to tell which court ordered yours, where to ask questions about your hours, and the local programs that often include community service, such as pretrial intervention, deferred adjudication and other diversion programs.

They are for anyone completing court-ordered or probation hours in a particular state, and for the family members and attorneys helping them. Find your state, read the sections on your court and any program named in your paperwork, and note your hour count and deadline before you begin. Each guide also explains how the online program works, what it costs and how to enroll, so you can complete your hours from home at your own pace.