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Renton residents and police guild urge city to preserve in‑house electronic home monitoring program
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Several speakers at the Renton City Council's mid‑biennium budget public hearing urged the city to retain its in‑house electronic home monitoring program rather than move to outside vendors.
Several speakers at the Renton City Council's mid‑biennium budget public hearing urged the city to retain its in‑house electronic home monitoring program rather than move to outside vendors.
Mark Coleman, president of the Renton Police Guild, told the council he learned four weeks earlier that the city planned to end the EHM program and warned that "privatizing public safety is a dangerous business" and that "subcontracting union jobs is anti labor." He said EHM staff perform counseling, urinalysis, DNA and fingerprinting and that "our 2 EHM employees have been with the city of Renton for almost 30 years…
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