EXECUTIVE ORDER         96-07

 

DISSOLVING THE GOVERNOR'S INTERAGENCY CRIMINAL JUSTICE

WORK GROUP AND RESCINDING EXCUTIVE ORDER 81-15

 

WHEREAS, the Governor's Interagency Criminal Justice Work Group was established through executive order on August 14, 1981; and

 

WHEREAS, the members of the Governor's Interagency Criminal Justice Work Group have faithfully carried out their important work for 15 years; and

 

WHEREAS, the major task of the Governor's Interagency Criminal Justice Work Group-prison population forecasting and assumption setting-has been taken on by the Sentencing Guidelines Commission; and

 

WHEREAS, the Governor's Interagency Criminal Justice Work Group met on April 5, 1996 to consider whether dissolving the group was appropriate and timely and voted unanimously to request this; and

 

WHEREAS, the Governor's Interagency Criminal Justice Work Group is holding a final meeting on December 4, 1996 to discuss legislation proposed by their member agencies;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Mike Lowry, Governor of the state of Washington, by virtue of the power vested in me, do hereby rescind Executive Order 81-15, thereby dissolving the Governor's Interagency Criminal Justice Work Group, effective December 5, 1996.

 

On behalf of the people of the state of Washington, I thank the members, past and present, for their hard work and commitment over the years.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto

set my hand and caused the seal of the State

of Washington to be affixed at Olympia

this 20th day of November A.D., Nineteen hundred and ninety-six.

 

 

MIKE LOWRY

Governor of Washington

 

 

 

BY THE GOVERNOR:

 

 

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Assistant Secretary of State


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