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Clerk 07/07/2008
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AN ORDINANCE relating to regional jail services; requesting reopening of the interlocal agreement between King County and the contract cities for jail services originally executed in 2002; and establishing criteria for the negotiation of new long term contract for jail services.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The King County department of adult and juvenile detention operates one of the largest detention systems in the Pacific Northwest. The department's annual budget for 2008 is $120 million; $147 million when the costs of jail health services are included.
2. The council adopted the current city jail services agreement in Ordinance 14573, covering the time period 2001 through 2012.
3. Cities have identified a need for more than one thousand four hundred jail beds for city inmates through 2026, and have developed a variety of options for building new misdemeanant detention capacity. The council acknowledges a long-term need for additional detention and community corrections capacity in the region over the next twenty years.
4. Since 2000, the county has worked to manage criminal justice system costs through the implementation of the Adult Justice Operational Master Plan (AJOMP) and the creation of the community corrections division, both of which have been supported by the Criminal Justice Initiative. These initiatives have resulted in reductions in county jail populations that are well below historic projections.
5. The council finds that the principal regional county responsibility of maintaining public safety is best served through the integration of criminal justice services as exemplified through the county's adult justice and other operational master planning policies. As a consequence, it is the intent of the council that the county should continue to be the primary regional provider of secure detention and community corrections programs.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Recog...
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