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Committee considers Village Reach report and a motion to fund a dedicated data coordinator for justice measures
Summary
Committee members reviewed a Village Reach final report on performance measurement and discussed a motion to recommend creation of a single full-time county position to operationalize the report's data and reporting recommendations.
At its July 8 meeting the Whatcom County Legal & Justice Systems Committee reviewed Village Reach's six-month final report on performance measurement for the county's justice implementation plan. Dean and Bernie summarized Village Reach's recommendations, which include near-term steps (within 6 to 12 months) to designate a dedicated operational role, establish shared indicator definitions, conduct a next-generation Sequential Intercept Model workshop, and begin operational reporting with currently available data; longer-term items (12 to 36 months) concern building linked cross-agency systems and data sharing agreements.
Dean emphasized that ‘‘the notion is…
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