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Judiciary defends pretrial assessment system; committee hears staffing and detention data
Summary
Officials told legislators that New Jersey’s public safety assessment (PSA) framework gives judges a scored recommendation but that judges retain discretion; the committee heard staffing levels for pretrial services and recent statistics on motions and releases.
Acting administrative director Michael Blee and assignment judges told the Assembly Budget Committee that New Jersey’s pretrial framework relies on a public safety assessment tool but that judges make the final release or detention decisions.
Blee described the PSA as “an electronic system based upon [nine] factors” that produces two scores — one measuring risk of dangerousness and one measuring risk of failure to appear — and said the judiciary provides a decision‑making framework that judges may follow or deviate from with…
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