Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs

Sex offender address verification - provide grants to local Sheriffs' offices to verify the addresses of all registered sex offenders. There are currently around 18,000 offenders being monitored by local law enforcement.

Wa auto theft prevention authority - provide grant funds to local law enforcement agencies to combat auto theft.

Mental health field response teams (mhfrt) - provide grants to local agencies to collaborate with mental & behaviorial health agencies. Provide a co-responder with officers to reduce incarceration in situations where intervention is beneficial.

Correctional options services - provide home detention & other sentencing alternatives to incarcerated persons convicted of crimes by local & state courts. This program is currently operating with an average daily population of 445. Cost savings to the state and local community vary based on the type of program run (booking fees, medical costs or jail costs).

Use of force & duty to intervene training, wa legislature provided funding for local law enforcement to help offset costs of training that resulted from the law changes in 2020 and 2021 as it relates to the duty to intervene and officer use of force.

Arrest and jail alternatives - provide grants to local agencies to work in communites to reduces violent interactions and provide behavioral health/social services before jail/incarceration

Jail booking & reporting system - collect statewide jail statistics. Includes development, implementation, training and transition to information systems. Includes the statewide automated victim info network and the protection order program.

Internet crimes against children - provide funding to the seattle Police department for task force to fight internet crimes against children

Law enforcement behavioral health grant program, wa legislature provided grant funding to local law enforcement agencies to stand up or expand local officer wellness programs in individual departments and regionally. Programs may include wellness trainings, equipment that promotes wellness, memberships, etc.

Denied firearm transaction notification - work closely with federal firearm licensors to collect and compare persons denied purchase of a firearm with the victim protective order system

Health care authority data extract - provide jail data to the wa health care authority for the purposes of benefit reinstatement and suspension

Sex offender website - provide communities with registered sex offender information; e.g., type of conviction, location of registered residence, vicinity to schools, etc. Also linked with national sex offender registry.

Project safe neighborhoods - provide funding for prosecutors, task forces, media outreach and training in support of the president's gun violence initiative.

Uniform crime reporting/incident-based reporting - collect state-wide crime statistics for annual "crime in Washington state" report. Development, implementation and transition to incident based reporting.

Conference/memorabilia - provides membership with semi-annual conferences. Includes state certified training as well as committee meetings and chief/sheriff/jail manager meetings.

Training - work closely with Washington state criminal justice training commission to provide executive level training to members. Provide support to membership through working committees, representation on stakeholder committees and providing executive-level law enforcement point of view.

Moud (managing opiod use disorder) in jails, grant that provides for service contract with substance abuse service to provide jails with support services to treat offenders with substance use disorder.

Covid in jails mitigation, grant provides funding for testing and other covid mitigation supplies in local jails.

Traffic grants - provide law enforcement with equipment and educational grants.

Saki3 - sexual assault kit testing grant program. Agencies receive reimbursement to test kits for dna in state system.

24/7 dui monitoring program, courts can sentence dui offenders to this program. Participants are tested twice daily to affirm they are not using alcohol during the term of their jail sentence.

Accreditation/loaned executive management assistance program - provide law enforcement agencies with standards. Work with agencies to accredit agencies according to set standards

Other programs - other small programs include jail standards workgroup, lemos training, missing persons website, sex offender record retention