The Hays County Commissioners Court received an update on pretrial services from the Hays County Pretrial Services Director Randy Foken at its regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday. The update came in response to a public comment involving the backlog of cases and pretrial detainees struggling to contact their attorneys in the Hays County Jail. The public comment was made on the agenda item requesting case management software for pretrial services.
According to the Hays County website, as of July 23, 82% of the jail population, or 452 people, was held pretrial in the Hays County Jail. Of that pretrial population, 7.5% were held for less than a week, 15.9% were held for one week to under one month, 45.4% were held one month to under six months, 15.5% were held for six months to under one year, 13.1% were held for one year to under three years and 2.7% were held for more than three years.
Foken said that his office officially assumed responsibility for pretrial services as of July 1, and has a staff of eight people including himself.
