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Lane County leaders stress public-safety staffing shortfalls and new behavioral health responses
Summary
Sheriff Clifton Harrold described a decades-long decline in patrol staffing; the county outlined a new mobile crisis program, a 24/7 behavioral health stabilization center and an in-jail partnership to connect people to services on release.
Lane County officials used the State of the County address to describe long-running public-safety staffing shortfalls and to preview new behavioral-health response programs intended to reduce reliance on emergency rooms and jails.
Why it matters: County leaders said staffing shortfalls in patrol and increasing behavioral-health needs are undermining service delivery; the county plans mobile crisis teams, a 24/7 stabilization center and inside-jail recovery services to fill gaps.
Sheriff Clifton G. Harrold told the audience the sheriff’s office is under-resourced for…
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