Sarasota County officials are slated to present a plan to county commissioners on Tuesday to buy a parcel downtown that would eventually be the site of a new Criminal Justice Center.
The only problem is uncertainty over whether the county can actually build that new center.
The project is part of a larger county push to fix a long-standing jail overcrowding problem . Officials are pursuing a plan to knock down the current Criminal Justice Center (CJC) on Ringling Boulevard, build a new one, and then build a new, much larger jail on the site of the old CJC…