Public Safety Coordinating Council
Vision
A community where people belong and are safe, healthy, connected and thriving.
Mission
To foster a health and safety network that strengthens relationships and communities’ access to essential services. we make budgetary recommendations to the lane county commissioners, advising them to responsibly use public resources to transform systems, create and maintain supportive programming, and address root causes of structural inequities.
Current Meetings
PSCC Juvenile Committee Meeting
Lane County Youth Services
Carmichael Room
2727 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Eugene
Overview
The Public Safety Coordinating Council (PSCC), a regional advisory council for the Board of County Commissioners, is charged with ensuring every effort is taken to effectively use resources to prevent crime, reduce crime, and increase the sense of safety within our communities. The PSCC strategy for meeting their charge is 3 fold:
- Have a mechanism to monitor system progress that allows PSCC to know how well it is doing in meeting its charge.
- Explore and implement appropriate governance models that increase system efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
- Make sure there is a continuum of programs and services that promote healthy behavior, ensure the ability to protect the community, and hold offenders accountable.
State Bill 1145
In 1995, Oregon voters passed Measure 11 to increase prison time for violent crimes, sending more people to state prisons for a longer time. This led to creating the local public safety coordinating councils to help communities cope with offenders locally. Each county in Oregon is mandated, through SB 1145 (PDF) to have a local Public Safety Coordinating Council. Most PSCCs do not have dedicated staff. In Lane County, we are fortunate that some of the SB 1145 money that comes from the state to the county for incarceration and supervision of offenders under local control has been set aside for planning and system wide coordination. Currently, Lane County and the cities of Eugene and Springfield have an intergovernmental agreement with the Lane Council of Governments to staff the Lane County Public Coordinating Council.
Agency Cooperation
The PSCC works to bring together agencies that are interested in public safety to assure that policies and programs work in a coordinated manner across jurisdictional lines and in sync with one another. There are many different agencies that work to create safe communities, manage offenders, and assist victims. All of these different agencies work together to create a system that is effective, easy to use, and able to adapt to the needs of our communities.
Members |
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OfficersPatty Perlow, Chair Ryan Ceniga, Vice Chair |
Non-Voting MembersJason Jones, Oregon Youth Authority Steve Mokrohisky, County Administrator Jim Andrews, Oregon State Police Representative |
Voting Members
Ryan Ceniga, County Commissioner
Nancy Pance, Citizen Member
Donovan Dumire, Community Corrections Manager
Shawn McWeeney, Citizen Member
Patti Robb (Interim), Youth Services Division Manager
Pauline Gichohi, Health & Human Services, Community Mental Health Director
Clifton Harrold, Sheriff
TBD, Citizen Member
Jay McAlpin, Circuit Court Presiding Judge
Brook Reinhard, Public Defender
Chris Parosa, Districy Attorney
Andrew Shearer, Chief, Springfield Police Department
Chris Skinner, Chief, Eugene Police Department
Sarah Stewart, Victim Services Representative
Lucy Vinis, Eugene Mayor
Annie Herz/Paul Solomon, Reentry Services