MONITORING PLAN TO FREE JAIL SPACE.Byline: TROY ANDERSON Staff Writer The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. has said will help him keep more dangerous offenders behind bars for up to 70 percent of their sentences. The move comes after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] signed legislation last week that will shift thousands of inmates sentenced for minor, nonviolent crimes out of overcrowded o·ver·crowd v. o·ver·crowd·ed, o·ver·crowd·ing, o·ver·crowds v.tr. To cause to be excessively crowded: a system of consolidation that only overcrowded the classrooms. county jails and into electronic monitoring at home. Currently, county jails are so overcrowded that some inmates are released after only serving 10 percent of their sentences. Ultimately, about 2,000 inmates in the jails are expected to be placed on electronic-monitoring programs under supervision of the Probation Department. "The benefit of having electronic monitoring is that our county will be able to keep prisoners in jail longer -- those that are the more serious offenders -- and we can get this percent up to 70 percent for those who remain," Baca said. "We also believe that 100 percent sentencing will be afforded to those who deserve 100 percent sentencing." Low-risk prisoners would be eligible for the home electronic-monitoring program at a cost to the county of $7 to $20 a day. Last year, Supervisor Don Knabe Donald R. Knabe (born October 15, 1943 in Illinois) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, serving the Fourth District, a crescent shaped district that covers the coastline from Marina Del Rey southward to Long Beach, and southeastern Los Angeles County to introduced a motion seeking to end Baca's early-release program by increasing the use of electronic monitoring by making it mandatory. The legislation, carried by state Sen. Majority Leader Gloria Romero Gloria J. Romero is currently the Democratic majority leader of the California State Senate and the first woman to ever hold this leadership position. Romero grew up in Barstow, and earned her associate's degree from Barstow Community College. She went on to a B.A. , D- Los Angeles, now gives counties the option of creating electronic home- monitoring for inmates convicted of misdemeanors. "This new state legislation will mean that all county inmates will move towards serving 100 percent of their court-imposed sentence, as opposed to 50 percent or less of their time," Knabe said. Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San said the new electronic monitoring program is a step forward. "For misdemeanor infractions, if they can be served with electronic monitoring, that would be cost-effective and still a punitive means of addressing those infractions as well," Antonovich said. troy.anderson(at)dailynews.com (213) 974-8985 |
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