Barranco could not give an overall cost figure. A $117,000 federal grant will cover some overtime and technology, but that only represents “a very small part” of the overall cost shouldered by the participating agencies, she said.
The Safe Surrender announcement came during the first CJCC meeting of the year, and Judge M. Brooke Murdock’s first as chairwoman. Other new faces at the council included the Division of Pretrial Detention and Services’ new commissioner, Wendell M. “Pete” France, and Baltimore’s District Court Administrative Judge John H. Hargrove Jr.
U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein and two attorneys in his Violent Crimes Section spoke about the Maryland EXILE program, which aims to bring harsher federal penalties to bear on the city’s most dangerous criminals. And Jennifer Etheridge and Sue Diehl of the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office updated the council on the Special Prostitution Diversion Program.

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