Council hears warnings about community corrections after DOC funding cuts
Officials warned that state Department of Corrections reprioritization and funding changes put the county’s community-corrections program at risk; the board approved a one-year stop-gap allocation and asked staff and the Criminal Justice Institute to seek longer-term solutions.
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County officials told the council that recent shifts in Department of Corrections (DOC) funding priorities threaten the viability of the county's community corrections program. One board member said they had "a really lengthy meeting earlier this summer" and that the one-year stop-gap funding adopted the previous day will buy time to negotiate with the Criminal Justice Institute and the DOC for a sustainable funding path.
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