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State outlines strategy to address ‘high utilizers’ of police and emergency systems; seeks $45M in governor’s budget
Summary
Interim state homelessness coordinator and partners presented data identifying roughly 971 high-utilizer individuals and proposed a three-pillar approach with a governor request of $25M one-time capital and $20M ongoing operations for criminal justice/high-utilizer interventions plus $5M one-time for the Other Side village.
SALT LAKE CITY — Interim state homelessness coordinator Nick Coleman and former Salt Lake City police sergeant Nate Meinzer told the subcommittee the governor’s plan targets a small group of people who repeatedly cycle through police custody, emergency medical care and shelters.
Coleman said a recent statewide data pull shows roughly 971 individuals in an expanded cohort who averaged about 11 arrests per year; Meinzer said the top 50…
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