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Penobscot County sheriff outlines plan for local pretrial services, cites technology and victim-notification gaps
Summary
Sheriff Jeff Knapp told commissioners on July 23 that Penobscot County will separate from a statewide pretrial contractor and build a county-run pretrial services unit, with job postings, electronic monitoring and a victim-notification pilot needing roughly $12,000 to expand countywide.
Sheriff Jeff Knapp told the Penobscot County Commission on July 23 that the county is moving to establish its own pretrial services program, separate from Maine Pretrial, and has posted job descriptions and preliminary pay scales for a coordinator, supervisor and specialists.
Knapp said the county has been meeting with defense counsel, the public defender's office and the district attorney's staff to define local expectations and a scope of work and that he will meet with judges to ask what the court expects from a local pretrial program. "If we stopped main pretrial today or pretrial services completely, would those 100 people come back into jail immediately? The answer was no," Knapp said, describing the county's view that pretrial services…
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