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THURSDAY'S PSCC MEETING

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The Public Safety Coordinating Council met today.  The jail occupancy rate averaged 94% of capacity in October, 92% in November, and 91% in December.  There was a steep decline in overall monthly arrests toward the end of the year, dipping below 5000.Judge Tobin reported that the judges are stretched thin, with a slew in judge school this week, and two more appointments yet to be made on the heels of yesterday's appointment of Ken Gillespie.  There are vacancies in Dependency and in Criminal.  Judge Tobin would not elaborate, but it seems likely there will be more movement of the existing judges to make way for the new guys and to fill the criminal divisions.  There is a meeting of the criminal judges on Wednesday, so the movement issues may be addressed, in addition to ironing out some thorny legal issues regarding the expansion of Magistrate proceedings...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on January 08, 2009 (boomark / email).