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Residents cite data and victims in repeated criticism of county pretrial releases
Summary
Multiple public commenters presented a fourth-quarter report and named victims, saying pretrial releases issued through a TEAM program had high failure-to-appear rates and enabled further crimes; commissioners took the comments under advisement but made no policy change at the meeting.
Residents and victims urged the Oklahoma County Commission to reconsider pretrial release practices after public commenters cited a fourth-quarter report they said documented high failure-to-appear rates and subsequent criminal activity among people released pretrial. Speakers read victim lists and quoted figures from the report during public comment.
Carol Knight, who identified findings from a fourth-quarter TEAM report, summarized the figures: "725 participants, 193 that failed to appear," which she described as about 27 percent. Knight told the commission many releases were processed without defendants’…
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