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Sheriff pitches community cleanup, peer recovery program; commission offers to help coordinate legal and space needs
Summary
Sheriff Blake outlined three initiatives — a community cleanup camp for unpaid fines, a jail-based work program, and a community recovery and prevention initiative — asking the commission to help secure meeting space and to coordinate with judges and the district attorney; commissioners did not vote on the proposals at the meeting.
Sheriff Blake described three related proposals intended to reduce jail stays for people unable to pay fines and to provide voluntary pathways to treatment.
Blake presented (1) a Covington County Community Cleanup Camp that would allow people with outstanding fines to perform community service work and receive reductions in fines based on hours worked, (2) a jail-based work program to…
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