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Police budget discussion highlights $700,000 earmark for clinical social workers, commission forms informal budget subcommittee
Summary
County police described a pilot to pair licensed clinical social workers with Crisis Intervention teams funded by a $700,000 congressional earmark; commissioners volunteered for an informal subcommittee to review the police budget and ask for breakdowns of personnel versus technology spending.
Montgomery County Police and commissioners on March 3 discussed a pilot program to embed licensed clinical social workers with Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) responses and identified a $700,000 congressional earmark intended to fund those hires.
Captain Jordan Satinsky said the department converted an existing position into a first‑line supervisory sergeant to manage CIT and the incoming clinical hires, and that the $700,000 earmark from Congress is available to hire licensed clinical social workers to respond alongside CIT officers. “We had a position number...we changed that...into a basically sergeant's level…
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