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Judiciary committee weighs pretrial, bail revocation and seeks committee bill
Summary
Members of the Judiciary Committee discussed rises in certain property crimes, limits of current pretrial law including Act 138, and directed staff to draft a committee bill covering multiple public-safety provisions beginning with section 12 of a draft plan. No formal vote was recorded.
At a Judiciary Committee meeting, committee members and staff reviewed rising property-crime statistics, limits of current pretrial authority and options to address repeat offenders, and agreed to pursue drafting a committee bill that would bundle several public-safety changes starting with section 12 of a draft measure.
The discussion opened with a Department of Public Safety staff member, Tucker, describing the department s frequently fielding questions from local communities and media about persistent offenders. Tucker cited one case in which an individual had "230 law enforcement encounters, 60 ... arrests, more than a dozen arrests for violations of conditions released, and 35 active criminal warrant uses" over a single year, saying similar examples appear across the state…
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