WA State Department of Commerce 9/25/2017

ATTACHMENT A #1 The focus areas(DV,SA stalking,dating violence) The Snohomish County CCR Team identified four focus areas. Those include: 1) Focus Area 1- Provide training to officers county-wide on understanding the mindset of a batterer. 2) Focus Area 2—Update the DV Lethality Assessment Form used by police officers to specifically increase the information gathered about the DV batterer's access to firearms. 3) Focus Area 3— Update the Domestic Violence Victim Information form. 4) Focus Area 4—Expand membership of the CCR Team to include under-represented groups, possibly including service providers working with vulnerable adults, homeless and mentally ill. #2 The goal of the activities 1) Goal Area 1—With the aforementioned training,officers will be able to better document observed batterer behavior& manipulation in reports painting a more complete picture for the court helping to increase conviction rates and sentencing. 2) Goal Area 2—Provide better information on suspect access to firearms to the prosecutor's office and court, with the goal of removing more firearms from the suspects thereby decreasing their future access to them. 3) Goal Area 3—DV Victims have told the prosecutor's office that this form is not particularly useful. Some of the information is required by RCW. The additional parts of the form need to be updated to be more useful to victims of domestic violence with the goal of increasing their communication with the prosecutor's office and victim services and greater utilization of the services available to them. 4) Goal Area 4—Decrease the incidence of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking in the identified population subgroups.