Why? They say for efficiency’s sake
, which runs the Central Booking facility where magistration occurs. Only one meeting actually happened, with the County Attorney’s Office, staff at each of the county offices tell us.have published a robust plan for making sure these are high-quality magistrations,” said, the local nonprofit that provides defense attorneys to indigent clients.
For years, APD officials have said it takes too long to book people into jail at Central Booking. The goal of the pilot, an APD spokesperson told us Tuesday, Sept. 26, is twofold: “to save money … [and] to find the speediest way to magistrate our arrestees. This new process will get our officers back on the streets as fast as possible.
In some counties, police are required to bring those affidavits to booking at the same time that they arrive with an arrestee. In Travis County, we allow them the maximum time possible to bring in the PC – 24 hours for a misdemeanor or 48 for a felony. Attorneys and sheriff’s office staff have told thethe average PC turnaround is roughly six hours, but PC drop-offs right before deadline are not unheard of.
The county conducts a variety of screenings and interviews to give judges a fuller picture of the person coming before them, and those screenings can also contribute to a slow booking process. Cutting out some, or all, of those services might speed up booking, but without defense attorneys present, judges would be left with very little individualized information to consider in setting a person’s bail conditions.
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