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Board of Pardons says no new appropriations but warns of $500,000 OTREC exposure
Summary
Board Chair Blake Hills told the committee the Board of Pardons and Parole has no request for new funding and highlighted operational improvements — My Voice victim notifications, improved mental-health evaluations and data links with courts — while Jennifer Yim warned OTREC modernization at the Department of Corrections could create a $500,000 exposure to the board and asked legislators to consider alternatives to ongoing cuts.
Blake Hills, chair of the Board of Pardons and Parole, told the subcommittee the board has no request for new appropriations and described recent operational improvements including improved mental-health evaluations, a link to court-sentencing data and a new victim-notification platform called "My Voice." "We have accomplished these things without any new appropriations," Hills said.
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