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Lawmakers hear support for bill to give parole board contracted legal counsel and training
Summary
Committee heard testimony on H.559, which would authorize a contracted attorney and education requirements for the parole board. Department of Corrections and the parole board director said the measure would help the board manage a larger parole caseload and provide needed legal and training support; no vote was taken.
Lawmakers heard testimony April 1 on H.559, a bill to modernize the parole board by adding an education requirement for members and funding a contracted attorney to advise the board.
Laurie Fisher, general counsel at the Department of Corrections, testified that the department “has no position adverse to the bill” and supports the proposed education requirement for board members. Fisher said Justice Reinvestment data show the system’s caseload has shifted: “there’s 700 folks approximately on parole, and in the low 1 hundreds on furlough,” a change she said increases the need for board members to be trained in criminogenic risk…
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