2008 Budget Book - Kitsap County Government

Prosecuting Attorney
2007 Accomplishments:
• Publication of Prosecuting Attorney’s Annual Report
• On July 1, 2007, felony DUI became a crime in Washington. A person commits felony DUI when
he or she commits a DUI and has a prior vehicular homicide while under the influence conviction,
or a vehicular assault while under the influence conviction, or has four or more prior DUI offenses
within 10 years. We have filed 8 felony DUI charges since the new law went into effect.
• Participation by the Juvenile Division of the Prosecutor’s Office in creating the Individualized
Treatment Court and have since staffed it on a weekly basis
• Dissemination of criminal case tracking data and reports to all Kitsap County Law Enforcement
agencies assisting in the resolution and reconciliation of their internal law enforcement records
• Collection of court-ordered, defendant-driven revenues utilized for equipment, payment of expert
witnesses and training of attorneys and support staff
• Securing Grants to provide victim services, training and equipment – STOP, OCVA, GTEA and
the American Bar Association
• Reorganization of support staff creating lead staff positions within the Criminal Division, reducing
overall FTE’s by .50
• Conducted regularly scheduled, in-house training with staff and attorneys
• On-Going implementation of Intern-Extern Program
• Paperless Achievements
– Electronic Subpoenas to all Law Enforcement Agencies – Kitsap County. We saved untold
thousands of sheets of paper by instituting the email subpoena project throughout the
county. Now all police agencies are being subpoenaed by email.
– Paperless Appellate Division
– On-line Budget, Accounting, and Payroll Documentation
– Centralized Training Documents and Procedures Accessible by All Staff
• Expanded Telecommute opportunities for attorneys and support staff
2008 Goals & Objectives:
We will contribute to Safe and Healthy Communities by pursuing the following objectives:
o Punishment of all violent crime against children, including sexual assaults
o Punishment of all violent crime against others, including sexual assaults (this
category includes Vehicular Homicide, Vehicular Assault and multiple DUI offenders)
o Punishment of juvenile offenders
o Punishment of hate/bias crime
o Punishment of adult drug offenses
o Punishment of alcohol-related traffic offenses
o Punishment of offenses involving animal abuse
o Punishment of economic crime (priority proportional to adverse economic impact:
the greater the impact--whether on an individual, individuals or business interests, the
greater our devotion of resources to seeking sanction;
o Confiscation of the fruits of drug crime
o Punishment of non-alcohol major traffic offenses
o Restitution for victims of violent crime
o Restitution for victims of economic crime
o Prosecution of Traffic Infractions
o Prevention: Violent Offenses including Sex Offenses; Juvenile Offenses;
Drug/Alcohol Offenses
We will contribute to Safe and Healthy Communities by maintaining personnel and resources devoted
to appropriate, aggressive and efficient criminal prosecution with particular emphasis on our specialized
units of Special Assault and Drug
We will contribute to Safe and Healthy Communities by maintaining personnel and resources devoted
to appropriate, aggressive, and efficient establishment and enforcement of child support obligations.
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