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Reentry panel weighs ending probation fee, after-hours drug-testing and child-support fixes
Summary
Members of the Joint Interim Committees discussed removing the state probation fee (PUFF), allowing drug tests outside work hours and improving how child-support accrual is handled during incarceration. The group asked staff to put the items on the March agenda and to compile implementation proposals for an April report to the legislature.
At a meeting of the Joint Interim Committees, committee members and agency representatives discussed three operational barriers to reentry: the state probation/upkeep fee (commonly called the “PUFF” fund), the scheduling and notification of court-ordered drug testing, and the process for stopping child-support accrual while a person is incarcerated.
Why it matters: Committee members said these procedural issues create practical obstacles to housing and employment for people leaving incarceration and asked staff to return concrete implementation proposals in time for an annual reentry report the group plans to release during April’s Second Chance Month.
Commissioner Buckner said she wanted to see simple, implementable changes added to the committee’s annual…
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