ADOPTED - SEPTEMBER 21, 1999

Agenda Item No. 39

Introduced by the Finance Committee of the:

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

RESOLUTION PRECLUDING INGHAM COUNTY PROBATION RESIDENTIAL ELIGIBILITY FOR OFFENDERS WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF

A VIOLENT OFFENSE LISTED IN THIS RESOLUTION

RESOLUTION #99-237

WHEREAS, the Michigan Community Corrections Act of 1988 (PA511) authorizes the establishment of a Community Corrections Advisory Board (CCAB) and Community Corrections programming; and

WHEREAS, Ingham County and the City of Lansing formed a joint CCAB in 1990; and

WHEREAS, a Comprehensive Community Corrections Plan and the FY 1999-2000 Funding Application were approved by the Ingham County Board of Commissioners, the Lansing City Council, and the State Office of Community Corrections; and

WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Community Corrections Plan and the FY 1999-2000 include probation residential treatment services in the continuum of PA511 funded programming; and

WHEREAS, PA511 encourages participation in PA511 community corrections programs of offenders who "have not demonstrated a pattern of violent behavior, and do not have a criminal record that indicates a pattern of violent offenses."

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, and in order to ensure public safety, no offender who has ever been convicted of an offense listed in this Resolution (see Resolution Attachment), including a predecessor offense, or a substantially corresponding felony offense from Michigan, the federal government, or another state will be eligible to receive probation residential services in Ingham County.

FINANCE: Yeas: Bernero, Grebner, Schafer, Minter

Nays: McDonald, Lynch Absent: Juall Approved 9/15/99