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Whatcom County pretrial staff review caseload trends, funding and data-system plans
Summary
Pretrial staff reported January caseload statistics, discussed AOC-funded supplies and training, and raised plans to validate a risk assessment and transition away from the CE Pretrial case-management product; staff asked AOC to augment county data and to help flag intimate-partner violence cases for closer review.
Alan, a pretrial staff member, told the Whatcom County Pretrial Services Work Group that January caseloads were similar to recent months and summarized the unit’s activity, including 102 pretrial screenings (PSAs) and 16 people placed on pretrial services last month.
The discussion focused on three near-term decisions: how to spend available Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) funding for client supplies and staff training, how to validate the local risk-assessment tool, and how to respond to the vendor’s plan to stop supporting the CE Pretrial case-management product the county currently uses.
“This is the same as what I always report down on PSAs completed, 102 PSAs,” Alan said. He reported operational details: 16 people received pretrial services (two on PR and the rest on bail release), 232 check-ins (combined in-office, text and phone), 36 six-ride bus passes distributed since the new year (compared with 105 single-ride passes the prior period), 11 clients were…
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