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Spokane County sheriff's office seeks board acceptance of two-year subaward to fund clinicians riding with deputies

Spokane County Board of Commissioners · October 29, 2025
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Summary

Undersheriff Kevin Ritchie told commissioners the WASPIC behavioral-health subaward with Frontier Behavioral Health formalizes in-car clinician co-response. The two-year agreement totals about $630,000 and is intended to fund three clinicians and partial supervisory and administrative coverage.

Undersheriff Kevin Ritchie told the Board of County Commissioners on Oct. 28 that Spokane County has executed a subaward agreement with Frontier Behavioral Health to fund clinicians who respond alongside deputies to behavioral-health crises. The agreement covers a two-year period and totals about $630,000, Ritchie said, to fund three clinicians who will ride with deputies and to…

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