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MA: County Sheriffs Reform Law

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From Senator Stan Rosenberg's email report: August 12, 2009 County Sheriffs Reform Law On Aug. 6th, the governor signed a bill that completes a set of reforms that I initiated when I chaired the Senate Ways and Means Committee. The new law, "An Act Transferring County Sheriffs to the Commonwealth," willgo into effect January 1, 2010, and could save taxpayers up to $8 million a year bytransferring the remaining seven county sheriffs' offices to the state payroll and state health insurance plan. The bill is designed to promote a more efficient delivery of services between state and county governments and is the latest in a string of reforms recently passed by the Legislature. The law moves the Bristol, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth, Barnstable, Nantucket and Dukes county sheriffs' offices to the state payroll and the state Group Insurance Commission (GIC), which will provide sheriffs' employees with more affordable health care...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 12, 2009 (boomark / email).