Total Revenue: $59,504,600
Total Expenditures: $59,534,600
Total Full-time Employees: 412.3
The Washington County Attorney’s Office has two major responsibilities. First, the office prosecutes all juvenile crimes, adult criminal felony crimes, and some misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor crimes. Included in this responsibility is to provide help to victims and witnesses. The second responsibility is to be corporate counsel for Washington County government. This responsibility includes providing legal advice to the County Board, Office of Administration, and departments in such matters as contracts, condemnations, Data Practices laws, civil claims made for or against the county, forfeiture of property from people who have used it to commit crimes, establishment of paternity, collection of child support, child protection, probate, and mental health.
The Community Corrections department provides supervision of adult and juvenile clients sentenced by the Court to probation, as well as to clients released by the Department of Corrections following a commitment to the Commissioner of Corrections. The adult division also provides pre-trial conditional release services in addition to preparing bail evaluations and conducting pre-sentence investigations.
To support Community Corrections Mission: Improving community safety by providing opportunities for positive change, the department develops, implements, and facilitates an array of in-house, evidence-based behavior change programs and individual interventions to clients which are found to enhance public safety by teaching skills that lower a person’s risk to re-offend.
The department also offers services that provide alternatives to incarceration for both adult and juvenile clients that include diversion, electronic monitoring, and Sentence to Service for non-violent clients who use their skills to provide meaningful work which often benefits county residents by improving the condition of our natural resources.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office provides residents and visitors with a safe environment in which to live, work, and visit. It also provides a safe facility to house those who have become a threat to county residents. The Sheriff’s Office services include the 911 emergency telephone system, court security, emergency management, investigations, SWAT, computer forensics, welfare fraud, property/evidence collection, a Canine Unit to help search for missing persons and locate suspects at crime scenes, a Water, Parks, and Trails Patrol Division to patrol the more than 50 lakes and 52 miles of rivers in Washington County, a dive team for water search and rescue, and a Crime Prevention Program that offers educational programs to the public in areas of residential and commercial security.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office provides police services to all of the cities and townships in the county that do not have their own police department, as well as 15 cities who have contracted with the county for police coverage.