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Resolution: R-21-0378
File Number: 10727
City Hall
3500 Pan American Drive
Miami, FL 33133
www.miamigov.com
Final Action Date: 9/13/2021
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION DIRECTING THE CITY
MANAGER TO MEET WITH MIAMI-DADE COUNTY MAYOR DANIELLA
LEVINE CAVA AND MIAMI-DADE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF
CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION DIRECTOR DANIEL JUNIOR TO
DEMAND THAT MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PROVIDE PROVISIONS OR
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF JAIL INMATES
RELEASED FROM THE TURNER GUILFORD KNIGHT CORRECTIONAL
CENTER LOCATED AT 7000 NW 41 ST STREET, IN UNINCORPORATED
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, BACK TO THE INMATES ORIGINATING
COMMUNITIES AND CEASE FROM FURTHER TRANSPORTING RELEASED
INMATES TO THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") FOR PURPOSES OF
ABANDONING THOSE INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE
CITY; PROVIDING FOR AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, all persons arrested throughout Miami -Dade County are transported to the
Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center ("TGK") located at 7000 Northwest 41 st Street,
which is owned by Miami -Dade County ("County"), operated by the Miami -Dade County
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ("MDCR"), and serves as a pre-trial detention
facility for inmates awaiting a disposition of their criminal charge(s); and
WHEREAS, the City Commission adopted Resolution No. R-20-0158 on May 14, 2020,
directing the City Manager to meet with the County to demand that MDCR cease the
transportation of released inmates into the City of Miami ("City"); and
WHEREAS, based on information and belief, inmates continue to be transported from
TGK and released in the area surrounding the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building where they
are abandoned on the City's streets with no means of returning to the municipality or
unincorporated areas of the County from where they were originally arrested; and
WHEREAS, since the City Manager's meeting, MDCR and the County have failed to
make any changes to their inmate release plan to make provisions or accommodations for the
transportation of TGK releasees back to their originating communities; and
WHEREAS, the residents, visitors, and business employees and owners of the City have
continuously been forced to carry a disproportionate burden in tolerating the behavior of TGK
releasees and the City has had to expend enormous resources without any contribution from
the County or MDCR; and
WHEREAS, the County has failed to balance the impact that such transportations has
had, and will continue to have, on the City and the City's residents, visitors, and businesses;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI, FLORIDA:
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File ID: 10727
Enactment Number: R-21-0378
Section 1. The recitals and findings contained in the Preamble of this Resolution are
adopted by reference and incorporated as if fully set forth in this Section.
Section 2. The City Manager is hereby directed to meet with County Mayor Daniella
Levine Cava and MDCR Director Daniel Junior to demand that the County provide provisions or
accommodations for the transportation of jail inmates released from TGK back to the inmates
originating communities and cease from further transporting released inmates to the City for
purposes of abandoning the jail releasees within the boundaries of the City.
Section 3. The City Attorney is hereby authorized' to take any and all legal actions
necessary against the County, in law or in equity, to prohibit the further transportation of
released jail inmates into the City and to seek any and all appropriate remedies.
Section 4. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS:
1
i ft6ria i "ndez, City Attor iey 9/2012021
' The herein authorization is further subject to compliance with all legal requirements that may be
imposed, including but not limited to, those prescribed by applicable City Charter and City Code
provisions.
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