DATE:
May 24, 2022
22
TO:
Board of Supervisors
SUBJECT
Title
INITIAL INTERIM REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON DATA-DRIVEN APPROACHES TO PUBLIC SAFETY, TREATMENT AND SERVICE EXPANSIONS, AND ADVANCING EQUITY THROUGH ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION, AND AMEND PRE-TRIAL FELONY MENTAL HEALTH DIVERSION PROGRAM AGREEMENT WITH DEPARTMENT OF STATE HOSPITALS TO INCLUDE ADDITIONAL GRANT FUNDS (DISTRICTS: ALL)
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OVERVIEW
On October 19, 2021 (3), the Board of Supervisors (Board) directed a series of actions focused on creating alternatives to incarceration, with an emphasis on data and stakeholder input to develop recommendations to enhance public safety, advance equity, and reduce incarceration of people who do not pose a public safety threat by providing community-based rehabilitative services and supports in lieu of custody. The Board directed development of comprehensive policy and service recommendations based on data-driven analysis of jail population reductions realized during the COVID-19 public health emergency, policy research, and stakeholder input. Board direction also included analysis of public safety outcomes, fiscal analysis and recommendations for short, mid, and long-term actions to reduce San Diego County jail populations safely and permanently and identified actions to be led by the County Chief Administrative Office (CAO) and actions to be conducted by an independent contracted consultant.
On February 8, 2022 (11), the Board received a Preliminary Report on Data-Driven Alternatives to Incarceration and approved referring the proposals for enhancing the capabilities of sobering services in the Central region to serve higher acuity clients and provide additional care transition services for high needs clients at sobering services to the Fiscal Years 2022-24 CAO Recommended Operational Plan.
Today's request includes receiving the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) Data-Driven Approach to Public Safety Alternatives to Incarcerati...
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