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Tompkins County committee reviews pretrial data, bail limits and probation practices
Summary
At a CJ ATI meeting in Tompkins County, committee members reviewed pretrial data that showed weekday intake/release peaks, discussed a mismatch between local and state pretrial counts, debated charitable-bail limits and staffing constraints, and agreed to seek DA input and compile public recommendations.
Members of the CJ ATI committee in Tompkins County spent their meeting reviewing pretrial statistics, local bail practices and steps judges and probation staff can take to reduce time people spend in jail.
The committee heard that local jail counts and state figures differ markedly: "the numbers from the two sources don't match each other at all," a presenter said, reporting that Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) totals were roughly double the local tallies. That presenter urged the group to obtain judge-by-judge data to compute per-capita jail time for particular jurisdictions and to clarify how DCJS defines "pretrial" versus local "unsentenced" counts.
Why it matters: Committee members said the discrepancy complicates planning. Data-driven decisions affect how the county targets alternatives to incarceration, how it staffs pre-sentence-investigation (PSI) workloads and how it deploys limited bail-fund personnel.
On arraignment and counsel, a judge on the panel described a new process now used in the county…
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