HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1987.05.28 - 18012Miscellaneous Resolution 87138
BY: General Government Committee-Richard G. Skarritt, Chairperson
IN RE: SENATE biLL89(OPPOSE) ENCOURAGES GREATER USE OF HALFWAY HOUSES AS
ALTERNATIVES TO CONFINEMENT IN COUNTY JAILS
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, Senate Bill 89 would amend existing state law relating
to county jails and the confinement of prisoners by encouraging
alternative halfway houses and probation programs; and
WHEREAS, the bill would eliminate the provision in the existing
statute requiring separation of prisoners arrested on civil process and
those held on criminal charges; and
WHEREAS, Senate Bill 89 replaces the deleted provision in the
preceding paragraph with language, applicable to counties that agree to
develop alternatives to incarceration, calling for segregation of
prisoners on the basis of gender and age only; and
WHEREAS, Sheriff Nichols opposes Senate Bill 89 noting that the
general _public is not receptive to state halfway houses and adding that
the county already has a Work Release Program, the Trusty Work Camp and
the Pre-Trial Services Unit.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners opposes Senate Bill 89.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent
to all legislators from Oakland County and to the county's legislative
agent.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee,
I move adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
28th day of 1 987
_ALLEN'
County Clerk/Register of Deeds
Misc. 87138
May 28, 1987
Moved by Skarritt supported by Jensen the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Lanni, Law, McConnell, Angus McPherson, Ruel McPherson, Moffitt,
Nelson, Page, Perinoff, Pernick, Rewold, Rowland, Skarritt, Wilcox, Aaron,
Caddell, Calandro, Crake, Doyon, Gosling, Jensen, Richard Kuhn', Susan Kuhn. (23)
NAYS: Price. (1)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal,
do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
this Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of CommisSioners
at their meeting held on May 28, 1987
with the orginial record thereof now remaining in my office, and
that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the
whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
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