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Sheriff’s office urges including law‑enforcement response in Clallam County opioid‑settlement planning
Summary
Clallam County law‑enforcement representatives asked the Behavioral Health Advisory Board to include a field‑response/law‑enforcement component in the county’s inventory of opioid‑settlement allowable uses, and county staff asked stakeholders to add service listings and gaps to a live document ahead of a June 17 Department of Health meeting.
Law‑enforcement and county public‑health partners debated how Clallam County should inventory services and identify gaps for proposed uses of opioid‑settlement funds during a Behavioral Health Advisory Board joint discussion on May 13.
Why it matters: The county is compiling a list of existing programs and gaps to guide recommendations about how to spend opioid‑settlement dollars; law‑enforcement speakers argued that state guidance allows uses addressing criminal‑justice‑involved people and local first‑responder wellness and that those uses should be included in local planning.
Amy (introduced during the meeting as the commander of a regional narcotics enforcement team) told the board her unit lost dedicated state provisional funding that had covered a records specialist and related task‑force functions, and she urged the advisory board to include a law‑enforcement field‑response component in the county’s…
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