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Commissioners discuss integrating pretrial services into restorative justice program; final decision deferred pending budget numbers
Summary
County staff proposed moving pretrial services into the restorative justice program to expand community supervision and treatment referrals and to reduce jail stays; commissioners asked for budgetary detail and agreed to revisit the plan after staff provides FY26 figures.
Belknap County staff and the county’s restorative justice and jail-supervision leadership presented a plan to integrate pretrial services into the county’s restorative justice program. Proponents said the consolidation would increase community supervision capacity, speed case processing, and help divert people from incarceration by connecting them to treatment and other services.
Presenters said the proposal would transfer existing pretrial work into restorative justice operations, bring one part-time pretrial employee into the…
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