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Thurston County to Pass Federal Byrne Grant Funds to State Prosecutors’ Association for Workload Study
Summary
County staff asked commissioners to approve routing a previously awarded Byrne grant through Thurston County to the Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys to support a statewide prosecutor workload study; the request was presented for approval at the Feb. 11 agenda-setting session and will be finalized at a later meeting.
Prosecutor John Tunheim asked the Thurston County Board of County Commissioners to approve a subaward of previously awarded Byrne grant funding to the Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (WAPA) to support a statewide prosecutor workload study.
Tunheim said the county received the Byrne grant in 2022 to study prosecutor workload locally but that no single vendor could be found to perform the work at scale. He described WAPA’s parallel effort to conduct a statewide study using Washington-specific data and said…
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