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Sheriff proposes county-run pretrial services; commissioners give concurrence to negotiate transition
Summary
Sheriff Morton outlined a plan to move pretrial services from Maine Pretrial to a county-run program with electronic monitoring, estimating roughly $272,000 annually; commissioners agreed to continued negotiations and requested a transition plan and timeline.
Sheriff Morton asked commissioners on June 3 to consider moving pretrial supervision from the nonprofit Maine Pretrial to a county-run program that would use electronic monitoring and allow the county to collect modest participant fees to offset costs.
Morton said Maine Pretrial currently supervises about 100 people daily but “has had staffing issues” and cannot do site visits or electronic monitoring. He said a county-run program could include three case managers, a supervisor and overhead and that his office estimated the cost at…
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