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Clerk 10/01/2003
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A MOTION approving the plan related to the implementation of an intake services unit as required in the 2003 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 14517.
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WHEREAS, in 2002, the King County council recognized that, left unchanged, the county's budgets for law and justice would use up all of the county current expense ("CX") resources by 2008, leaving no resources for any other county CX program or for the administration of county government, and
WHEREAS, criminal justice expenditures account for almost three quarters of the county's current expense budget, and
WHEREAS, as a result revenue shortfalls, the county has had to make significant reductions in this area but has also taken steps to ensure that these reductions do not have an adverse impact on public safety through the development of a coordinated and comprehensive criminal justice policy framework, and
WHEREAS, the county council, working with the executive and the separately elected representatives of the county's criminal justice agencies, adopted a defined set of policies for criminal justice as part of the county's Adult Justice Operational Master Plan ("AJOMP"), and
WHEREAS, based on the policies adopted through the AJOMP, the 2003 budget included reductions for each of the county's criminal justice agencies, while at the same time each agency-through the implementation of the AJOMP-has been working to make the overall system more efficient and effective and less costly, and
WHEREAS, the adopted county criminal justice policy includes direction for the development of alternatives to the use of secure detention for adult offenders in order to make best use of limited detention resources and preserve public safety, and
WHEREAS, the council stated that the these alternatives or intermediate sanctions should be used in a graduated and measured manner, appropriate to the offense and cognizant of the cost effectiveness-measured through lower costs, or redu...

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