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Pretrial release program reports lower revocations, strong court-appearance and estimated jail-cost savings
Summary
Team pretrial release staff reported screening 7,054 bookings, recommending 1,147 releases to judges with 1,140 approvals, and supervising 2,063 people; the program reported an 84% court-appearance rate, an 89% arrest-free rate while supervised, and an estimated $9.4 million detention cost savings.
Stacy Katzener, supervisor of the Team Pretrial Release Initiative, presented the program's annual update, including screening and supervision outcomes, and described a new risk-assessment implementation intended to reduce pre-release detention time.
The nut graf: the initiative reported that standardized screening and supervision produced high court-appearance and arrest-free rates and that the adoption of a validated Public Safety Assessment (PSA) aims to shorten the average time people spend in custody before release.
Stacy said the program screened 7,054 individuals with eligible charges and submitted 1,147 individuals to judges for pretrial release consideration; 1,140 of those submissions…
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