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File #: 2025-21573   
Type: County Attorney Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 12/17/2025 Meeting Body Board of County Commissioners
On agenda: 1/6/2026 Final action:
Title: Request Consideration of Reduction and/or Release of Civil Restitution Lien for Sarah Ames
Attachments: 1. Ames-CRL Packet

 

SUBJECT:

Title

Request Consideration of Reduction and/or Release of Civil Restitution Lien for Sarah Ames

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INITIATOR:

DEPARTMENT:

Matthew G. Minter, County Attorney

County Attorney

 

DESCRIPTION/BACKGROUND:

On December 9, 2025, the County Attorney’s Office received a request from Sarah Ames for a Release/Reduction of her Civil Restitution Lien from Case No. 2018-MM-3257, recorded at OR Book 6993, Page 540 on June 27, 2019. Ms. Ames is requesting a reduction of the Civil Restitution/Cost of Incarceration Lien totaling $3,659.27, with $2,550.00 remaining in judgment and $1,109.27 in interest.

 

On May 31, 2018, Ms. Ames was arrested for Resist or Obstruct Officer without Violence (First Degree Misdemeanor) in Case No. 2018-MM-3257. On November 19, 2018, she was sentenced to a maximum of 51 days in Jail; the Court imposed a Judgment of Cost of incarceration of $2,550.00 (sentence 51 days x $50 per day). She served a total of 25 days in the Marion County jail and was not an Inmate Worker. She has paid all other fines and court costs for this case.

 

Ms. Ames is asking for this release/reduction of her lien to help clear up her background in order to obtain healthcare employment.

 

BUDGET/IMPACT:

None

 

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Recommended action

Motion to approve or deny Sarah Ames’s request for a Reduction and/or Release of the Civil Restitution Lien recorded in OR Book 6993, Page 540 on June 27, 2019.

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