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Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention highlights Kent partnerships, 'hundred days' interventions and lockbox distribution
Summary
The county'1s Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention updated the Board on community violence-intervention work April 11, spotlighting Kent: community partners, hospital-based intervention, distribution of roughly 5,000 lockboxes, and a "hundred days" summer response that reached several hundred residents.
The Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention briefed the Public Health '1 Seattle & King County Board of Health April 11 on community-based violence-intervention activities and a partnership spotlight in the city of Kent.
Eleuthera Lish, director of the county's Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention, said the office is taking a public-health approach that combines data, direct services to people at highest risk, community partnerships and technical assistance to jurisdictions. Lish said countywide "shots fired" incidents were up roughly 37% over a five-year period ending in 2024; however local partnerships appear to have contributed to reductions in some jurisdictions.
Chief Rafael Padilla of the Kent Police Department described Kent-specific…
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