{"id":182,"date":"2013-01-22T16:08:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T21:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/ankle-monitoring-working-and-saving-money-lcc-2013-01-22.html"},"modified":"2013-01-22T16:08:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T21:08:58","slug":"ankle-monitoring-working-and-saving-money-lcc-2013-01-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/ankle-monitoring-working-and-saving-money-lcc-2013-01-22.html","title":{"rendered":"Ankle monitoring working and saving money @ LCC 2013-01-22"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n
\n<\/a>
\nAn unscheduled report and testimonials by Commissioners
\nsaid the county’s ankle monitoring program is going well and saving money,
\nin this morning’s
\nLowndes County Commission Work Session.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n<\/a>
\n
\nAnkle Monitoring:<\/a>
\nIn another item not on the agenda,
\n
\n<\/a>
\nthe Chairman asked “Mr. Steven Harmon” to give a report
\n(I’m guessing I got the right Steven Harmon in the picture here).
\nLowndes County apparently saves over one million dollars each year
\nby using an ankle monitoring program, rather than keeping non-violent
\noffenders in the county jail.
\nThat program
\nwas
\n
\ninitially approved by the Commission 13 December 2011<\/a>,
\nrequired
\n
\na budget adjustment 10 January 2012,<\/a>
\nwas
\n
\nfunded by the Commission 19 June 2012,<\/a>
\nand was
\n
\nin the budget approved 26 June 2012.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

We the public still don’t really know what’s in this program, because<\/p>\n


\n
\n<\/a>
\nnone
\nof the documents the Commission has reviewed about it have been made public.
\nCommissioners were very positive about this program, and I hope it is
\nas good as they say it is.
\nI’m certainly for fewer people being locked up,
\nand for saving tax money that way.
\nYou’d think with a program they say is this great,
\nCommissioners would want the public to know the details.\n<\/p>\n

\nHere’s
\n
\nthe video.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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