Clackamas County Public Safety Coordinating Council

Local public safety coordinating councils were established in 1995 as a result of Senate Bill 1145, which made counties responsible for supervising felony offenders sentenced to prison terms of one year or less.

Clackamas County’s Public Safety Coordinating Council manages state and local resources to ensure that these are used in the most effective and appropriate manner to address local adult and juvenile offender populations. Working in partnership with the Clackamas County Commission on Children and Families, the Council designs strategies to prevent youth involvement in criminal activities, coordinates criminal justice policy among local criminal justice agencies, and provides support to local programs that strengthen and preserve families.

The membership in these local county public safety coordinating councils include: The County Sheriff, County District Attorney, A State Court Judge, A Public Defender, The Director of Community Corrections, A County Commissioner, The Juvenile Department Director, A County Health Director, representatives from the State Police and Oregon Youth Authority, representatives from city government and lay citizen representatives.

In Clackamas County, public meetings are held quarterly in the Clackamas County Public Services Building. In addition to reports from the public safety agencies, meeting topics in the past year have included presentations about:

• Transition program needs for participants coming back to the community from secure confinement
• Development of the County’s 10 year plan to address homelessness
• Review of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Department Jail Population Control plan

For additional contract information contact the chair, Rod Cook 503-650-5678 or committee staff, Korene Maceo at 503-650-5683.