Who We Are
The Multnomah County Local Public Safety Coordinating Council (LPSCC) is a statutorily created collaboration. Since 1995, public safety stakeholders in Multnomah County have met monthly to coordinate their policies and operations and collectively address issues critical to public safety.
The LPSCC office consists of several full-time employees, and seeks to further criminal justice reform through facilitation, planning, project management, data analysis, and community engagement.
What We Do
The Multnomah County LPSCC engages in a variety of activities to improve the criminal justice system. Through Council meetings and smaller group work, LPSCC stands ready to address emerging issues within the justice system, such as youth violence prevention, law enforcement agency alignment, pre-trial supervision, and mental health services in the justice system.
Sample activities include:
- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge (SJC): Since 2015, LPSCC has led the local SJC work, a nationwide initiative designed to reduce over-incarceration by changing the way America thinks about and uses jails. Our current project is to reform the pretrial system and to develop and lead a second cohort of Justice Fellows.
- Multnomah County Justice Reinvestment Program (MCJRP): This legislative program seeks to fund effective local crime control strategies that increase public safety and ultimately reduce the demand for costly prison resources. The costs avoided by reducing the use of state prisons will return to the County to enhance and sustain effective local public safety strategies. Since its inception, the Multnomah County Justice Reinvestment Program assessment and adjudication processes have decreased the number of people sentenced to prison by approximately 40%.
- Transforming Justice: Through a unique, human-centered process of collaboration between criminal legal system leaders, health system leaders, elected officials, providers, victims of crime, and individuals with lived justice system experience, we developed a long-term vision to drive a strategic planning process for the adult public safety systems. Through a $2 million federal Bureau of Justice Assistance grant, we are piloting 4 of the 18 Transforming Justice core strategies in the Reimagining Justice in Cully project.