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Whatcom County index committee weighs data definitions, governance for justice dashboard
Summary
County staff and stakeholders discussed which agencies should host a public dashboard built from VillageReach recommendations, confirmed two jail measures are available from current systems, and set December follow-up to gather data on recidivism, race/ethnicity fields and age disaggregation.
Whatcom County officials and stakeholders on Oct. 2 discussed how to operationalize recommendations from consultant VillageReach for a public justice-data dashboard, agreeing to gather more technical information and return to the index committee in December.
The discussion centered on which county office should house and sustain the dashboard, what core measures can already be produced from county systems, and whether the county can disaggregate data by race, ethnicity and age. County Executive Satpal Sidhu recommended proposing the prosecuting attorney’s office as the lead location for the project, while several participants said the project will require cross-departmental staffing and technical work regardless of where it sits.
The committee reviewed VillageReach’s four core measures — number of bookings into the jail, average length of stay in jail, connections to care and recidivism — and heard that two of those (bookings and average length of stay) appear obtainable from current systems for 2024 and…
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