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Council approves STAR Boot Camp update after 10-year look-back presentation
Summary
A STAR Boot Camp representative presented program data including participant demographics and an informal follow-up suggesting roughly 72% of 2015 graduates had no subsequent criminal-justice involvement; council voted to approve the STAR program update.
A representative of the STAR Boot Camp (presenter) reviewed a 10-year summary of referrals, completions and community-service hours, describing the program as a structure-focused intervention that has operated since 1997 and is jointly supported by city, county and school partners (45% county/probation, 45% city, 10% school, plus in-kind school support).
“Our mission is to redirect delinquent behavior and misbehavior into hopefully getting them to be productive citizens, responsible, respectful,” the presenter said while describing program length, participant ages and community-service work such as trash pickup along city roadways.
The presenter offered an informal follow-up sample of the 2015 class and said roughly 72% of those graduates had no later criminal-justice involvement, while acknowledging the sample was small and not a formal study. Council members asked clarifying questions about community-service locations, program length and partner referrals before moving to a motion.
Council voted to approve the STAR program update. No changes to core program design were made at the meeting.
