City of Baltimore - File #: 12-0073R

• File #: 12-0073R
• Version: 0
• Name: Request for State Action - Calling for a Moratorium on the Construction of New Juvenile Detention Facilities
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed
• File created: 10/22/2012
• In control: Education and Youth Committee
• Final action: 7/15/2013
• Title: Request for State Action - Calling for a Moratorium on the Construction of New Juvenile Detention Facilities FOR the purpose of requesting that State leaders take every effort to prohibit the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services from planning or constructing a certain detention facility in Baltimore City; that they prohibit the planning or construction of any detention facility for juveniles in Baltimore City until a task force has conducted a study on implementing certain recommendations; calling upon the General Assembly to redirect all State funding that would have been used to construct or operate a certain facility to recreational and educational programs which have been shown to actually reduce juvenile involvement with crime; and generally relating to detention facilities in Baltimore City.
• Sponsors: President Young, Bill Henry, Carl Stokes, Nick Mosby, Brandon M. Scott, Sharon Green Middleton, Helen L. Holton, Mary Pat Clarke, Robert Curran, Warren Branch, James B. Kraft, William H. Cole, IV, William "Pete" Welch
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/15/2013	0	City Council	Failed
10/22/2012	0	City Council	Introduced
10/22/2012	0	City Council	Assigned

* 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: President Young



A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Request for State Action - Calling for a Moratorium on the Construction of New Juvenile Detention Facilities

FOR the purpose of requesting that State leaders take every effort to prohibit the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services from planning or constructing a certain detention facility in Baltimore City; that they prohibit the planning or construction of any detention facility for juveniles in Baltimore City until a task force has conducted a study on implementing certain recommendations; calling upon the General Assembly to redirect all State funding that would have been used to construct or operate a certain facility to recreational and educational programs which have been shown to actually reduce juvenile involvement with crime; and generally relating to detention facilities in Baltimore City.
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Recitals

Governor O'Malley has recently decided to move forward with the misguided plan to spend more than $70 million building a youth detention facility in Baltimore City despite the fact that there are sound arguments against building this facility. In fact, using the governor’s commissioned report researched and written by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, youth advocates have documented why the decision to focus valuable resources on locking up our youth instead of investing in their int...