2022 schedule:
Meeting dates and forthcoming materials posted here
Key Documents
See below for links to key documents (all pdf):
- Budget Proviso establishing the Task Force
- CSTF Members and Alternates – updated September 2021
- Operating Procedures – updated March 18, 2021
- Draft Guiding Principles
- Examining Washington State’s Sentencing Guidelines: A Report for the Criminal Sentencing Task Force, Washington State Institute for Public Policy, May 2021
2021 Meeting Summaries – Task Force & Working Groups
Click here for the following meeting summaries and notes:
- Criminal Sentencing Task Force Meetings
- Sentencing Grid Subgroup Meeting Notes
- Sentencing Alternatives Work Group Notes
Research and Data Resources
Click here to view a list of resources related to the Criminal Sentencing System.
2021 Meeting Schedule and Materials
The Task Force is meeting virtually until further notice.
If you would like to receive email notifications about virtual meeting coordinates and meeting materials, please send a request to: sentencing.taskforce.ruckelshaus@wsu.edu
- January 21, 2021
Meeting recording link – via TVW
- Meeting Agenda
- Draft 2021 work plan
- Meeting PowerPoint Presentation
- Sentencing Guidelines presentation – prepared by Lauren Knoth, Washington State Institute for Public Policy
- February 18, 2021
Meeting recording link– via TVW
- Meeting Agenda
- January 21, 2021 – CSTF Meeting Summary
- CSTF Operating Procedures (approved October 2019)
- Meeting PowerPoint Presentation
- Principles of Collaboration and Decision-Making
- Grid Subgroup Presentation
- Draft Subgroup Meeting Summaries:
- March 18, 2021
Meeting recording link– via TVW
- Draft Meeting Agenda
- February 18, 2021 – CSTF Meeting Summary
- Revised draft CSTF operating procedures
- Draft- CSTF proposed guidance to Legislature on State v. Blake
- Draft Subgroup Meeting Summaries
- April 15, 2021
Meeting recording – via TVW
- Draft Meeting Agenda
- Meeting PowerPoint Presentation
- March 18, 2021 CSTF – Meeting Summary
- Discussion responses- Mar. 18th meeting
- Goals of the Sentencing Reform Act
- Washington Felony Sentencing Provisions 1990-2018– timeline prepared by SGC
- History of the Sentencing Reform Act– presentation prepared by Keri-Anne Jetzer (Coordinator, Sentencing Guidelines Commission)
- Grid Subgroup- March meeting summaries
- May 6, 2021
Meeting recording– via TVW
- Draft Meeting Agenda
- April 15, 2021 – CSTF Meeting Summary
- Examining Washington State’s Sentencing Guidelines: A Report to the Criminal Sentencing Task Force (Washington State Institute for Public Policy), May 2021
- Presentation by Lauren Knoth, (Washington State Institute for Public Policy)
- Final Report
- May 20, 2021
Meeting recording– via TVW
- DRAFT agenda
- Categorized Sticky Note Responses – from September 2019
- May 6, 2021 – CSTF Meeting Summary
- Grid Group – April & May Meeting Summaries
- Recommendations from the CSTF 2020 Report & Related Legislation – document prepared for the Sentencing Guidelines Commission (pdf at sgc.wa.gov)
- June 3, 2021
Meeting recording– via TVW
- Draft agenda
- Sentencing Alternatives Summary– prepared by Clela Steelhammer, Caseload Forecast Council
- Meeting PowerPoint Presentation
- May 20, 2021 – CSTF Meeting Summary
- June 17, 2021
Meeting recording– via TVW
- Draft agenda
- Draft 2021 workplan
- Grid group: May-June Meeting summaries
- June 3, 2021 – CSTF Meeting Summary
- July 1, 2021
Formal business meeting was cancelled. Members and alternates participated in a workshop facilitated by Cultures Connecting.
- July 15, 2021
Formal business meeting was cancelled. Members and alternates participated in a workshop facilitated by Cultures Connecting.
- August 5, 2021
Meeting recording – via TVW
- Draft Agenda
- CSTF ground rules– updated 3.18.21
- Meeting PowerPoint Presentation
- June 17, 2021 – CSTF Meeting Summary
- August 19, 2021
Meeting recording – via TVW
- September 2, 2021
Meeting recording– via TVW
- September 16, 2021
Meeting recording – via TVW
- October 7, 2021
Meeting recording– via TVW
- 10.7.21 Meeting PowerPoint Presentation
- Draft agenda
- Sentencing Alternatives Summary– prepared by Clela Steelhammer, Caseload Forecast Council
- September 16, 2021 – CSTF Meeting Summary
- November 4, 2021
Meeting recording – via TVW
- Draft agenda
- Detailed guide to vertical axis potential recommendations
- October 7, 2021 – CSTF Meeting Summary
- 11.4.21 Meeting PowerPoint Presentation
- December 2, 2021
Meeting recording– via TVW
December 2, 2021 – CSTF Meeting Summary
- 12.2.21 Meeting PowerPoint Presentation
- November 4, 2021 – CSTF Meeting Summary
- Draft agenda
- Task Force 2021 workplan
- 2020 Recommendations and related Legislative bills – prepared by Keri-Anne Jetzer, Sentencing Guidelines Commission