DATE:
January 9, 2024
05
TO:
Board of Supervisors
SUBJECT
Title
ADVOCATING FOR DETENTION FACILITY NEEDS IN COUNTY LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM (DISTRICTS: ALL)
Body
OVERVIEW
On November 7, 2023 (26), the San Diego County Sheriff's Department (Sheriff's Department) presented to the San Diego County Board of Supervisors (Board) on the state of County detention facilities which included the Detention Facility Strategic Framework Plan (Detention Facility SFP). Upholding and modernizing San Diego County detention facilities infrastructure is paramount for those in its custodial care, as well as staff who are committed to deploying the best medical and mental health care in addition to modern programming for effective return into the community.
Today's action is a request to include in the County of San Diego's Legislative Program Priority Issues the ability for the County of San Diego, through its Sacramento and Washington, D.C. advocates, to pursue state and federal resources to support the infrastructure needs of County detention facilities to ensure proper medical and mental health care can be advanced and rehabilitative programming can be further administered in accordance with the Sheriff's Department holistic service delivery model.
RECOMMENDATION(S)
SUPERVISOR JIM DESMOND AND SHERIFF
Amend the County of San Diego's 2024 Legislative Program, Priority Issues section, to include the following statement:
Pursue state and federal resources to support the infrastructure needs of County detention facilities to ensure proper medical and mental health care can be advanced and rehabilitative programming can be further administered in accordance with the Sheriff's Department comprehensive service delivery model.
EQUITY IMPACT STATEMENT
The Sheriff's Department prioritizes providing quality medical and mental health care to everyone in custody beginning at intake. Infrastructure improvements are necessary to enhance delivery of services which will improve outcom...
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