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NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS- LEGISLATIVE GOALS <br />Goal Accomplished Goal Partially Accomplished Goal Not Met <br />Justice and Public Safety <br />1. (J)Protect county jail system <br />• Seek legislation to protect the fiscal viability of the county jail system by reinstating the reimbursement rate for <br />state inmates housed in county jails and increasing the reimbursement rate for state inmates awaiting post -trial <br />prison transfer. <br />• Oppose legislation to increase time counties are mandated to house state misdemeanants. <br />2. A^ Improve inmate medical care cost containment - Seek legislation that would authorize medical care providers <br />to charge the state and counties no more than the rates set in the Medicaid or Medicare schedule of charges for inmate <br />medical care. <br />3. � Maintain funding for gang prevention and adolescent substance abuse prevention, intervention and <br />treatment programs. <br />4. Allow court facility fee flexibility - Seek legislation to allow counties to collect additional fees to support <br />specialty courts and help fund capital, operational and other needs associated with increasing demands on our judicial <br />system. <br />5. Authorize inmate electronic monitoring cost reimbursement - Seek legislation to authorize counties to seek <br />reimbursement from defendants for electronic monitoring, based on ability to pay. <br />Attachment number 4 <br />G -3 Page 258 <br />