Local Public Safety Coordinating Council

ORS 423.560 – 423.565 LOCAL PUBLIC SAFETY COORDINATING COUNCIL

The board of county commissioners of a county shall convene a local public safety coordinating council. The council shall include, but need not be limited to:

(a)A police chief (Tanner Stanfill, Chief)

(b)The sheriff of the county or, if two or more counties have joined together to provide community corrections services, a sheriff selected by the sheriffs in the counties; (Jim Adkins, Sheriff)

(c)The district attorney of the county (Steve LeRiche, District Attorney)

(d)A state court judge, and a public defender or defense attorney (Dan Ahern, Judge and Paul Sumner, Attorney)

(e)A director of community corrections, a county commissioner, a juvenile department director, a health director, a mental health director and at least one lay citizen, all appointed by the county commissioners; (Kurt Symons, Community Corrections Director; Mike Ahern, Commissioner; Mike Baker, Public Health Director; Rick Treleaven/Heather Crow-Martinez, Mental Health Director; and  Karen Esvelt, Lay Citizen)

(f)A city councilor or mayor and a city manager or other city representative, both selected by the cities in the county; (Gus Burril, City Manager)

(g)A representative of the Oregon State Police, who is a nonvoting member of the council, selected by the Superintendent of State Police; and (Keith Taylor, Sergeant OSP)

(h)A representative of the Oregon Youth Authority, who is a nonvoting member of the council, selected by the Director of the Oregon Youth Authority. (Donna McClung, Director OYA)

(2)The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties may jointly convene a single, regional local public safety coordinating council by means of an intergovernmental agreement. Local officials may combine the council with existing local criminal justice advisory councils established under ORS 1.851 (Local criminal justice advisory councils).

(3)The local public safety coordinating council shall, at a minimum:

(a)Develop and recommend to the county board of commissioners a plan for use of:

(A)State resources to serve the local offender population; and

(B)State and local resources to serve the needs of that part of the local offender population who are at least 15 years of age and less than 18 years of age, which plan must provide for coordination of community-wide services involving prevention, treatment, education, employment resources and intervention strategies; and

(b)Coordinate local criminal justice policy among affected criminal justice entities.