Whatcom County

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File #: AB2025-030    Version: 1
Type: Council Appointment Requiring Introduction Status: Appointed
File created: 12/31/2024 In control: Council
On agenda: 2/25/2025 Final action: 2/25/2025
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Appointment to a vacancy on the Incarceration Prevention & Reduction Task Force, health and social services provider, Applicant(s): Eve Smason-Marcus, Kristy Backer, Rob Sullivan, Alexis Hahs, Shannon Prescott
Attachments: 1. Smason-Marcus Application, 2. Backer Application, 3. Sullivan Application, 4. Hahs Application, 5. Prescott Application
Department Council Office

Primary Contact Email:    Jnixon@co.whatcom.wa.us

 

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Appointment to a vacancy on the Incarceration Prevention & Reduction Task Force, health and social services provider, Applicant(s): Eve Smason-Marcus, Kristy Backer, Rob Sullivan, Alexis Hahs, Shannon Prescott

 

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Incarceration Prevention & Reduction Task Force

Health and Social Services Provider

Partial term expiring 1/31/2026

 

The Task Force reviews Whatcom County’s criminal justice and behavioral health programs and makes specific recommendations to safely and effectively reduce incarceration of individuals struggling with mental illness and chemical dependency; minimize jail use by pretrial defendants who can safely be released; and identify, examine, and recommend implementing programs and policies that focus on intervention and prevention strategies that are pursuant to incarceration. Meets monthly; subcommittees generally meet monthly or bimonthly.

 




Whatcom County, Washington
311 Grand Avenue | Bellingham, WA 98225 | Phone: 360-778-5000