IPRTF reviews Law and Justice Council statute and presses for data‑sharing progress
Steering committee members read the RCW that designates the IPRTF as the local Law and Justice Council, confirmed statutory representation, and focused on persistent data‑sharing barriers; members recommended hiring a project lead and pursuing interim dashboards per VillageReach.
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The Whatcom County Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force (IPRTF) steering committee reviewed the state statute that requires counties to establish a Law and Justice Council and discussed whether the task force is meeting those duties. Heather, a steering committee member, read the RCW aloud, including the requirement that “the county legislative authority shall determine the size and composition of the council, which shall include the county sheriff and a representative of the municipal police departments… the county jail administrator, the county clerk, the county risk manager, and the secretary of corrections, and his or her designees.”
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