IPRTF - Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force - Feb. 23, 2026

Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force · February 23, 2026

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Opening and land acknowledgment

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Co‑chairs opened the meeting, read a land acknowledgement honoring Lummi, Nersidak, Samish and Sanyalma peoples, and previewed the agenda (panel recap and later items). Heather Flaherty is noted as co‑chair.

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Whatcom County Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force met Feb. 23, 2026 to review jail-planning scenarios, discuss budget constraints and bed counts, and vote to form a time‑limited data coordination work group. Members debated tradeoffs between affordability, programming, and public‑safety capacity.

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