{"id":299353,"date":"2010-02-09T18:42:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T23:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=17244"},"modified":"2010-02-09T18:42:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T23:42:55","slug":"kane-county-reaps-4-2-million-from-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/299353","title":{"rendered":"Kane County reaps $4.2 million from courts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The state’s attorney’s office helped generate $4.2 million last year in revenue that will remain in Kane County, officials announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The funds came from a variety of unpredictable sources, including $1.2 million in unpaid court fines and fees the office was able to collect in arrears and $900,000 in forfeited bond money.<\/p>\n

In addition, State’s Attorney John Barsanti said the new county jail and efforts to keep it from overcrowding resulted in a $3.1 million savings.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We’re kind of proud of the whole thing,” he said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

About half of the money was generated by taking a tougher stance on previously unpaid fines and fees, and defendants who didn’t return to court after posting bond to be released from jail.<\/p>\n

Barsanti’s office worked with a collection agency to recoup $1.2 million of $25.5 million in unpaid fines and fees owed to the county, and also seized $900,000 in forfeited bonds through court proceedings.<\/p>\n

Fines and fees that were paid by defendants on time last year totaled $1.8 million, and the county’s Second Chance program for nonviolent offenders brought in another $320,000.<\/p>\n

Barsanti said only the Second Chance funds would go entirely to the county’s general fund, while the remaining money – about $3.8 million – would be divided among the county, law enforcement agencies and programs that played a role in each particular case.<\/p>\n

The jail savings were calculated based on the cost of housing inmates in other counties in 2008, before the larger county jail opened in St. Charles.<\/p>\n

Barsanti said efforts to keep nonviolent property-crime offenders from sitting in the jail through plea bargains and more thorough bond-setting procedures also helped prevent crowding.<\/p>\n

“It moves the caseload along better, it opens up beds in the jail,” he said. “We completely eliminated the out-of-county detainees.”<\/p>\n

Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The state’s attorney’s office helped generate $4.2 million last year in revenue that will remain in Kane County, officials announced Tuesday. The funds came from a variety of unpredictable sources, including $1.2 million in unpaid court fines and fees the office was able to collect in arrears and $900,000 in forfeited bond money. In addition, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}