Whatcom County task force prioritizes building jail data content and infrastructure for public dashboard

Dec 5, 2025

At a Dec. 3 Index Committee meeting, members agreed to prioritize assembling existing jail and justice indicators into a public-facing dashboard template, clarify metric definitions (average length of stay, recidivism, ethnicity), and requested a near-term IT progress report and a Jan. 8 follow-up meeting.

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BELLINGHAM, Wash. — At its Dec. 3 meeting, the Whatcom County Incarceration, Prevention and Reduction Task Force’s Index Committee agreed to prioritize compiling and standardizing jail- and justice-related data into a public-facing dashboard and to pursue a near‑term progress report from county IT.

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