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PR26-0048 • 2025

Secure DC Pretrial Detention Extension and Reporting Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Secure DC Pretrial Detention Extension and Reporting Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Crime
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Pinto
Last action
2025-02-14
Official status
Approved
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide specific details on how long the measures will remain in place after February 18, 2025.

Secure DC Pretrial Detention Extension

This resolution extends certain pretrial detention measures and clarifies reporting requirements for the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council in Washington, D.C.

What This Bill Does

  • Extends specific pretrial detention measures that were set to expire on February 18, 2025.
  • Clarifies reporting requirements for the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) to ensure accurate data collection.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People involved in the criminal justice system in Washington, D.C.
  • The Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC)

Terms To Know

Pretrial detention
Keeping someone in jail before their trial because they are considered a risk to society or might not show up for court.
Sunset date
A specific date when a law or rule stops being effective unless it is renewed.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The resolution does not specify how long the pretrial detention measures will remain in place beyond February 18, 2025.

Bill History

  1. 2025-02-14 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Resolution R26-0037, Effective from Feb 04, 2025 Published in DC Register Vol 72 and Page 001468

  2. 2025-02-04 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Retained by the Council

  3. 2025-02-04 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Legislative Meeting

  4. 2025-02-04 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Approved with Resolution Number R26-0037

  5. 2025-02-03 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    PR26-0048 Introduced by Councilmember Pinto at Office of the Secretary

Official Summary Text

Secure DC Pretrial Detention Extension and Reporting Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED ORIGINAL

A RESOLUTION

26-37

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

February 4, 2025

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the Secure DC
Omnibus Amendment Act of 2024 to remove the sunset date of certain pretrial detention
provisions; and to amend the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council for the District of
Columbia Establishment Act of 2001 to clarify certain reporting requirements.

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
resolution may be cited as the “Secure DC Pretrial Detention Extension and Reporting
Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025”.

Sec. 2. (a) The Secure DC Omnibus Amendment Act of 2024, effective June 8, 2024
(D.C. Law 25-175; 71 DCR 2732) (“Secure DC”), established a rebuttable presumption for
pretrial detention in certain cases in our criminal justice and juvenile justice systems. These
measures are set to expire on February 18, 2025. The Council also established a requirement that
the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (“CJCC”) submit to the Mayor and the Council
reports on the efficacy of the criminal justice and juvenile justice pretrial detention provisions.
Modifications are needed to Secure DC to ensure the CJCC report covers the appropriate data for
effective analysis of these policies. Additional time is also needed for the CJCC to complete the
report.
(b) Emergency legislation is necessary to amend Secure DC to remove the sunset date of
certain pretrial detention provisions at least until such a point as the report can be completed and
submitted to Council, and to amend section 1505 of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council
for the District of Columbia Establishment Act of 2001, effective October 3, 2001 (D.C. Law 14-
28; D.C. Official Code § 22-4234), to clarify certain reporting requirements.

Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances in
section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Secure DC Pretrial
Detention Extension and Reporting Emergency Amendment Act of 2025 be adopted after a
single reading.

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.