Amendment ID: S2279-13-R2

2nd Redraft Amendment 13

Southern Middlesex Justice Complex

Ms. Friedman moves to amend the amendment in section 2, in line-item 8000-3502, by inserting after the word "Medford", in line 126, the following words:- provided further, that $200,000 shall be expended to establish a special commission to identify and evaluate potential sites suitable for the location of a replacement justice complex that includes a jail facility in southern Middlesex county, consistent with chapter 304 of the acts of 2008; provided further, that the special commission shall include the following officers or their designees: the secretary of public safety and security, who shall co-chair the commission, the court administrator of the trial court, who shall co-chair the commission, the secretary of administration and finance, the Middlesex sheriff, the Middlesex superior court clerk, the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance, the Middlesex district attorney, chief counsel of the committee for public counsel services, 1 member of the senate appointed by the senate president, and 1 member of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker; provided further, that the special commission shall: (i) evaluate whether such sites are appropriate to adjoin facilities to house related criminal justice functions, including courts, pre-arraignment lock-up facilities, and a female lock-up facility, and (ii) analyze the current inmate and detainee populations in the county and make recommendations on the appropriate scale of any new facility based upon that analysis and make recommendations on whether the future inmate and pretrial detainee population within the county may be reduced; provided further, that the special commission shall report its findings and recommendations to the governor and the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate not later than January 1, 2019.