After chat with chief justice, Ferguson ‘confident’ home detention program will continue

After calling out the Maryland Judiciary last week for skirting responsibility for a pretrial private home detention monitoring that recently ran out of money, Senate President Bill Ferguson said Tuesday that he’s “confident” the judiciary will be able to cover the program until the legislature can backfill costs. Ferguson said that Supreme Court of Maryland Chief Justice Matthew Fader “reached out very quickly” and that he appreciated their conversation about how to move the program forward.