City of Baltimore - File #: 12-0026R

• File #: 12-0026R
• Version: 0
• Name: Request for State Action - Redirect Youth Jail Funds to Alternatives to Detention, City Recreation Centers, and Schools
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 2/27/2012
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 2/27/2012
• Title: Request for State Action - Redirect Youth Jail Funds to Alternatives to Detention, City Recreation Centers, and Schools FOR the purpose of requesting that the State act to address public safety concerns involving City youths in a more effective and fiscally responsible way by redirecting funds earmarked for a new youth jail towards City recreation centers instead.
• Sponsors: Bill Henry, Mary Pat Clarke, Robert Curran, Carl Stokes, Sharon Green Middleton, Helen L. Holton, Warren Branch, James B. Kraft, President Young, William "Pete" Welch, Nick Mosby, Edward Reisinger
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/27/2012	0	City Council	Introduced
2/27/2012	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
2/27/2012	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Henry
At the request of: The Safe and Sound Campaign



A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Request for State Action - Redirect Youth Jail Funds to Alternatives to Detention, City Recreation Centers, and Schools

FOR the purpose of requesting that the State act to address public safety concerns involving City youths in a more effective and fiscally responsible way by redirecting funds earmarked for a new youth jail towards City recreation centers instead.
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Recitals

The Education and Youth Committee of the Baltimore City Council held a roundtable discussion on January 19, 2012 that generated a number of ideas worth pursuing. One of the participants, the Baltimore Safe & Sound Campaign, presented the idea of reallocating State funds currently earmarked for the construction of a new youth jail in Baltimore to the City’s recreation centers, public schools, and alternatives to detention (PACT Centers and Apprenticeship Training).

According to the Safe and Sound Campaign, an independent study commissioned by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services indicated that, although the City may have a youth crime problem, it does not need a new youth jail. Existing facilities could accommodate the current population of young offenders if used more efficiently. What Baltimore does need is a reduction in the number of youths who become perpetr...