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Committee considers Village Reach report and a motion to fund a dedicated data coordinator for justice measures

Legal & Justice Systems Committee, Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force (IPRTF) · July 8, 2025
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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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