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Over the course of the past year, a great deal of focus has been placed on Santa Clara County’s Correctional system. Making an appreciable impact on the custody and health systems within the jails will take months, and a full remedy to this crisis may take years. This webpage contains the County’s many jail reform efforts and will be continually updated with new documents, reports, and information as a result of fast-paced incremental work and phased addition of resources dedicated to these important efforts

Summarized recommendations were created to group like recommendations and are updated to reflect any new information on implementation of all of the jail reform recommendations. As such, the Jail Reform Matrix will no longer be updated and any updated status and budget changes will be reflected in Summarized Recommendations.

Date	Category	Title
04/16/2024	Recent Board Actions	Received report from the Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring relating to Audit of Jail Reform Recommendations.
03/12/2024	Recent Board Actions	Approved Contract Change Order for ADA Improvements to Elmwood Barracks.
02/27/2024	Recent Board Actions	Received report from the Facilities and Fleet Department relating to emergency procurement to repair plumbing at Elmwood Correctional Facility.
10/17/2023	Recent Board Actions	Received report from the Office of the County Executive and the Office of the Sheriff relating to a custodial facility condition assessment.
10/17/2023	Board Study Sessions on Jail Reforms	Received report from the Office of the County Executive, Office of the Sheriff, Custody Health Services, and Facilities and Fleet Department relating to the status of jail reform efforts.
09/19/2023	Recent Board Actions	Adopted Ordinance No. NS-300.976, amending Sections A20-8 and A20-9 relating to the Office of the Sheriff’s Military Equipment Use Policy.
09/19/2023	Recent Board Actions	Approved Sixth Amendment to Agreement with Traditions Psychology Group, Inc., dba Traditions Behavioral Health, relating to providing psychiatric physician services for County of Santa Clara correctional facilities.
09/19/2023	Recent Board Actions	Approved retroactive First Amendment to Agreement with California Forensic Medical Group, Inc., relating to providing on-site, on-call, and tele-health physician services in County correctional facilities.
09/19/2023	Recent Board Actions	Received report from Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring relating to Office of the Sheriff use of chemical agents in planned use of force incidents.
09/19/2023	Recent Board Actions	Adopted Salary Ordinance No. NS-5.24.20 relating to compensation of employees adjusting salaries for classifications represented by Santa Clara County Correctional Peace Officers’ Association.

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