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Criminal Justice Commission outlines growing grant portfolio: justice reinvestment, deflection and treatment funding highlighted
Summary
The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission told the judiciary committee on Jan. 22 that its grant portfolio has expanded from a few programs in 2018 to multiple grant lines including justice reinvestment (~$50M/ biennium), treatment courts, impacts grants, and new deflection funding from HB 4002.
Ken Sanjukin, executive director of the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, told a Jan. 22 informational hearing that the commission’s grant portfolio has grown substantially since 2018 and that the agency now administers multiple grant programs aimed at treatment, supervision, enforcement and community supports.
Sanjukin said the commission’s flagship justice reinvestment program — created by House Bill 3194 and later amended by House Bill 3078 — redirects resources toward community supervision, treatment and services and that the commission now administers roughly $50 million per biennium through justice reinvestment grants.
He summarized several major grant programs: justice reinvestment and its downward‑departure competitive grants (originally capitalized at $7 million, now roughly $8 million with…
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