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Former SLO County Probation officer guilty of embezzlement

March 6, 2026

Fallyn Rollins swearing in, in 2019

By KAREN VELIE

A former San Luis Obispo County probation officer pleaded guilty to nine counts of felony grand theft by embezzlement after her request for mental health diversion was denied.

Following 32-year-old Fallyn Sierra Rollins’ guilty plea, the court indicated a sentence of 270 days in jail if Rollins fully pays restitution of $169,875 prior to her May 19 sentencing hearing. However, before her sentencing, prosecutors and the Santa Barbara County Probation Department will provide sentencing recommendations to the SLO County court.

Rollins served as treasurer for the SLO County Probation Peace Officers’ Association in 2023 and 2024. As treasurer, Rollins had control over the association’s checking account, debit card, and financial records which allowed her to divert money undetected.

In Feb. 2025, Rollins attorney Robert Sanger filed a motion for a gag. The gag, which was approved, order prohibits the parties, witnesses, law enforcement, court personnel, and both prosecutors, defense attorneys and their staffers from releasing information about the case.

In July, SLO County Superior Court Judge Rita Federman denied Sanger’s request that his client receive mental health diversion based on her bipolar diagnosis. However, Federman determined there was no evidence Rollin’s crimes were the result of her mental health issues.

Rollins sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 19.

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Where is she coming up with that kind of dough? What did she invest all that money LOL? What a slap in the face to us commoners, not even a year in jail… WHAT A JOKE. That’s a real deterrent judge.


And great job filtering out losers with bad judgement in the hiring process.


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So if you work in government and steal around $160,000 from the taxpayers, first if you get caught, which is unlikely to start, your consequences will be to just pay back the money you stole, no interest or penalty, likely be able to use money from the bankrupt pension system, less than a year in jail, which can likely be served on weekends and eventually will some type of release program, so maybe at the most 6 months of weekends in jail and 6 months of wearing a ankle monitor. No financial penalty for stealing above what you stole, no prevention from working in government again, no real jail time, so basically no deterrent for you to not steal again and no deterrent to anyone else in government from stealing. Yeah that’s government for you. .


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We need to clean house with just about all of our government officials. From local all the way up to congress, SCOTUS, and POTUS. It’s a nasty swamp that’s needs a clean out for generations now.


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Certainly, there very crafted ways to rip off the public. The latest one I’ve learned about is the LAMP document that was government crafted and will raise the cost of a septic system in Santa Margarita to about $75K. Surely one might understand the issue if well founded but when this program exceeds the State Standard and was crafted under the clouded lingo of buzz words to avoid public involvement, it is easy to surmise the word nefarious. Unless you are already up to speed, check it out. Ya, I know, it doesn’t affect you and gov knows that.


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