DATE:
February 8, 2022
11
TO:
Board of Supervisors
SUBJECT
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PRELIMINARY REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON DATA-DRIVEN APPROACHES TO PUBLIC SAFETY, TREATMENT AND SERVICE EXPANSIONS, AND ADVANCING EQUITY THROUGH ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION (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 October 19, 2021 (3), agenda item observed that jail populations during the COVID-19 public health emergency had dropped by more than 25 percent. The Board Letter directed specific activities, described research questions, requested broad stakeholder engagement, and set forth reporting timelines through early 2023 to develop data-driven analysis of jail populations, policies enacted in response to COVID-19 affecting these populations, information on public safety outcomes, and comprehensive recommendations and fiscal analysis for short, mid, and long-term actions to reduce San Diego County jail populations safely and permanently. The Board direction identified actions to be led by the County Chief Administrative Office and actions to be conducted by an independent contracted consultant.
In response, the County's Public Safety Group convened a first group of stakeholders to develop immediate analysis and a first set of recommendations for services that support alternatives to incarceration that can be included in the Fiscal Years 2022-24 CAO Recommended Operational Plan. Stakeholders include County and City of San Diego criminal justice agencies and Health and Human Services Agency partners who collaborated in a series of workgroups over the past few months. These ini...
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