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Minutes of Meeting
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
A meeting of the Public Safety Coordinating Council was held at 3:30 p.m.
on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 in the Allen Conference Room of the
Deschutes Service Building.
Council Members Present:
Tony DeBone, County Commissioner
Tom Anderson, County Administrator
Ken Hales, Community Corrections
Sara Crosswhite, 9-1-1 Operations
Aaron Brenneman, Defense Attorney
George Conway, Health Services Director
Jeff Hall, Court Administrator
Melanie Kebler, Citizen Appointee
Wells Ashby, Judge
John Hummel, District Attorney
Erin Taylor, Citizen Member
Shane Nelson, Deschutes County Sherriff
Also present were Owyhee Weikel- Magden, Roger Olson, COHC Donna Mills,
Sonya Littledeer- Evans, Trevor Stevens and BOCC Administrative Assistant
Samantha Pepper.
CALL TO ORDER & INTRODUCTIONS: Chair Judge Ashby called the
meeting to order at 3:31 p.m. and introductions were made of committee
members and of members of the audience.
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2. APPROVE PSCC MEETING MINUTES: The minutes of January 7, 2020
were approved unanimously.
3. PUBLIC COMMENT: None presented
4. Juvenile Traffic Waivers Presentation and Discussion:
Juvenile Referee Owyhee Weikel-Magden and Community Justice
Deputy Director Sonya Littledeer- Evans reported on changes to the
standing order for juvenile traffic waivers. Now juvenile traffic crimes,
except for DUII charges, will come to the juvenile dept. Sonya states that
they will continue to send over 15, 16 and 17 year old DUIIs to the
Circuit Court. Juvenile will now get everything else. Sonya handed out a
matrix for LE to help understand which traffic/game/boating offense go
to which court. Melanie Kebler asked if speeding etc. was staying in
Justice Court. Sonya answered that traffic violations for juveniles 15
and over will continue to go to Justice and Municipal courts (based on
where the citation occurs) and anyone under 15 stays in juvenile court.
5. Justice Reinvestment Quarterly Report Presentation and
Discussion:
Trevor Stephens presented the Justice Reinvestment Quarterly Report
and mentioned that the Justice Reinvestment Grant was awarded and
contract was finalized. He provided an overview of program
implementation and program successes. He highlighted the return of
Moving On gender specific programming and the launch of Moral
Enhancement Therapy (MET). He mentioned that prison utilization is
down for men and woman overall. He explained that victim's services
agencies will receive a boost in funding due to the supplemental grant
award. He explained that the pre -trail component of the program is set
to launch May 1, 2020 but the work group is meeting every other week.
Tom Anderson asked how Deschutes County compares to the state.
Trevor states that CJC data compares by county so it is hard to say
unless we compare to specific counties. However, overall Deschutes
Counties seems to be doing fairly well. Sherriff Shane Nelson stated
that he would really like to see the full Justice Reinvestment report just
for curiosity.
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6. OTHER BUSINESS:
• Judge Ashby mentions that Judge Forte announced his official
retirement at the end of month. Mental health court will become
part of Judge Ashby's court docket. Judge Ashby and several
other officials met with Governor Brown a couple weeks ago about
the addition of another judge in Deschutes County.
• Commissioner DeBone attended a drug court graduation a couple
weeks ago.
• Chief Porter with Bend Police Department announces retirement.
• Gil Levy is the new Director of KIDS Center and will be joining
PSCC next month.
• Sara Crosswhite mentions that Police Chief Brian McNaughton
from the City of Redmond is retiring.
ADJOURNMENT: There being no further discussion, the meeting was
adjourned at 3:56 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
NW
Samantha Pepper, BOCC Administrative Assistant
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