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Clerk 12/23/2014
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A MOTION accepting the Improving Programs and Services for Incarcerated Veterans Report, as required by Motion 14125.
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WHEREAS, in May 2014, the metropolitan King County council required the executive to develop and submit for council review and approval a report on improving programs and services for incarcerated veterans in the department of adult and juvenile detention jail facilities in compliance with Motion 14125, and
WHEREAS, in May 2014, the department of community and human services offered to assist the department of adult and juvenile detention in convening an incarcerated veterans work group to identify program and service improvements for incarcerated veterans, and developing and submitting the report to council, and
WHEREAS, the motion defined the following ten deliverables for improving services for incarcerated veterans:
1. Recommendations and options for providing veteran-specific services and programs to incarcerated veterans, including dedicated veterans housing options in jail facilities or other forms of veteran-only programming;
2. Recommendations and options for creating a veterans housing unit, or a predominantly veterans housing unit, at each county detention facility serving adults;
3. Recommendations and options for veterans to not lose existing veterans administration benefits;
4. Recommendations and options for facility arrangements to accommodate veterans' programs and services;
5. Recommendations and options for either new or restructured, or both, staffing models to provide veterans focused programming and on the utilization of department of adult and juvenile detention personnel who are veterans to provide supervision in incarcerated veteran housing;
6. Recommendations and options on methodologies for collecting veteran status of incarcerated veterans, whether collected at time of booking by correctional staff, through jail health services, or through other means;
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