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Rock County approves ordinance allowing booking fees and sets daily inmate cost at $135.95
Summary
The Rock County Board of Supervisors voted to add a county ordinance permitting the sheriff to charge nominal booking and related fees for sentenced inmates and set the county's per-day cost of incarceration at $135.95. Supervisors and county staff said collections will be limited and recovery rates are expected to be low.
The Rock County Board of Supervisors on a voice vote approved a new ordinance authorizing the sheriff to charge a daily inmate cost and related booking fees, and set the actual per-day cost of maintaining sentenced inmates at $135.95.
The ordinance (creating section 3.9 of the Rock County Code of Ordinances) was moved by Supervisor Knutson and seconded by Supervisor Pier. Supervisors then approved a separate resolution establishing the $135.95 daily rate; that motion was moved by Supervisor Knutson and seconded by Supervisor Wilson.
County officials and supervisors emphasized the change is intended to give the Sheriff's Office the legal mechanism to assess nominal fees (booking, transportation, drug testing, electronic monitoring) only for sentenced inmates, not for persons who are merely arrested and presumed innocent. Court counsel…
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