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Clerk 12/08/2011
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A MOTION accepting a report where the department of adult and juvenile detention provides a review of booking and release operations and the King County Correctional Facility and the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center, as required in Ordinance 16984, Section 48, Proviso P3.
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WHEREAS, the King County council in Ordinance 16984, Section 48, Proviso P2, required the adoption by motion of a report where the department of adult and juvenile detention reviews and reports on optimal use of secure detention, cost effective staffing, managing changes in population, the county's classification system and alternative fee-setting strategies, and
WHEREAS, the executive has transmitted to the council with this motion the report called for in the proviso, and
WHEREAS, the report includes a review of:
1. The optimal use of county secure detention capacity as well as examples of cost effective staffing models for secure housing units;
2. How other similarly situated jurisdictions address declines or increases in secure detention population;
3. The county's secure detention classification system;
4. How other similarly situated jurisdictions have reduced jail operating costs; and
5. Alternative fee-setting strategies for contract jail services;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
The report demonstrating the department of adult and juvenile detention's review
of these options identified in Ordinance 16984, Section 48, Proviso P3, which is Attachment A to this motion, is hereby accepted.