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Joint oversight committee selects four OPE studies for the interim

Joint Legislative Oversight Committee · March 13, 2026
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Summary

The Joint Legislative Oversight Committee voted to assign four Office of Performance Evaluations studies — boards of guardians, drivers of prison population growth, impacts of growth on agriculture and infrastructure, and oversight of sexual assault in women’s correctional facilities — after a ranked ballot. OPE will report progress during the interim.

The Joint Legislative Oversight Committee voted to assign four studies to the Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE) on Dec. 2, accepting the top requests identified in a ranked ballot.

The committee, chaired by the session chair, approved motions to accept these priorities after OPE staff tallied confidential ballots. The studies selected were: boards of community guardians; factors driving growth in the state prison population; impacts of growth on agriculture and infrastructure; and oversight of sexual assault in women’s correctional facilities. Representative Birch moved…

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