A. An electronic home detention plan will provide a cost-effective means for the city to provide for the housing of persons committed to jail for certain misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor violations of city ordinances; and

B. The city is in need of such a program for the housing of certain defendants sentenced to jail for such violations or incarcerated awaiting trial or sentencing for such violations; and

C. It is in the best interest of the city to repeal Ordinance 4952 and to enact a new ordinance which will implement a new electronic home detention program that includes standards for eligibility and authorizes a pre-trial release component to the electronic home detention program; and

D. Any such program should include minimum eligibility standards as established by the Bellevue probation department in accordance with and in compliance with federal, state and local laws. (Ord. 5634 § 1, 2005.)