Spokane’s Safe and Healthy Task Force was created last year to find new remedies to the region’s homelessness, mental health and substance abuse problems.
The group hired a Florida-based consultant, retired Miami Judge Steven Leifman, to assess Spokane’s health and public safety systems and recommend ways they could better work together.
Leifman recently presented his group’s findings. We talk with task force members Angel Tomeo Sam and Matt Albright about how the group will proceed from here…