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Human Services reorganizes community‑justice functions and highlights behavioral‑health wins
Summary
Director Eileen Smith described a new Community Justice division that will combine juvenile detention and pretrial/probation resources, outlined behavioral‑health expansions including a parent‑child interaction therapy clinic and Pathway Center work, and asked for modest position adjustments to manage caseloads.
Eileen Smith, director of Human Services, told council the department will reorganize to create a new Community Justice division that brings juvenile detention center and pretrial/probation staff under a single deputy director to better align operations and funding. "What we found... is the alignment makes more sense to provide that support to them," Smith said.
Smith outlined the department’s FY26…
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