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Your Vote Counts,
Preferences For The
Future
Should courts, prosecutors, defenders, probation
officers and detention services be provided with
increased programs as alternatives to
incarceration, such as Electronic Home Monitoring,
Therapeutic Courts, Diversion Programs, and ReEntry Services?
1. Strongly agree
2. Agree
3. Neutral
4. Disagree
5. Strongly disagree
6. Not an important question
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If additional alternatives are provided, should the
resources to pay for them come from increased
revenues, re-allocation of existing criminal justice
resources or a mix of both?
1. Equal mix of increased revenues and reallocation of existing
resources
2. Mostly reallocation of existing criminal justice resources
3. Mostly increased revenues
4. No additional resources should be applied to alternatives to
incarceration
5. Not an important question
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Should the Courts, County and cities implement
comprehensive Pre-Sentencing Risk and Needs
Assessment?
1. Strongly agree
2. Agree
3. Neutral
4. Disagree
5. Strongly disagree
6. Not an important question
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Should the Courts, County and cities adopt
“Evidence Based” Standards for use in detention,
supervision, alternative programming and
sentencing?
1. Strongly agree
2. Agree
3. Neutral
4. Disagree
5. Strongly disagree
6. Not an important question
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Should Therapeutic Courts like “Drug Court” and
“Mental Health Court” be expanded to serve more
participants?
1. Strongly agree
2. Agree
3. Neutral
4. Disagree
5. Strongly disagree
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Should Pre-Filing Diversion for DWLS-3 (Driving
While License Suspended) and other law
enforcement driven diversion programs like LEAD
and CIT be implemented County-wide?
1. Strongly agree
2. Agree
3. Neutral
4. Disagree
5. Strongly disagree
6. Not an important question
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Should the County and cities pay to divert more
offenders into supervised Electronic Home
Monitoring programs as an alternative to jail for
those assessed as low risk for violence?
1. Strongly agree
2. Agree
3. Neutral
4. Disagree
5. Strongly disagree
6. Not an important question
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Should the County and cities devote additional
resources to Re-Entry programs?
1. Strongly agree
2. Agree
3. Neutral
4. Disagree
5. Strongly disagree
6. Not an important question
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Should the County and cities pay to expand postcharging diversion/alternative sentence programs
like Community Courts, Day Reporting Plus, Work
Crew, Therapy/Treatment and Community Service?
1. Strongly agree
2. Agree
3. Neutral
4. Disagree
5. Strongly disagree
6. Not an important question
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Should the County and cities convene a broad
stakeholder group to collaborate on proposing
comprehensive changes to the current criminal
justice system?
1. Strongly agree
2. Agree
3. Neutral
4. Disagree
5. Strongly disagree
6. Not an important question
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