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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
08/25/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved Second Amendment to Memorandum of Understanding with Health Management Associates, Inc., relating to the California Medication Assisted Treatment Expansion Project to enhance medication assisted treatment of opioid addiction in County jails.
06/23/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved recommendations related to the Electronic Monitoring Program surveillance system and monitoring devices that will serve as a custody program alternative to allow inmates to serve some or all of their sentence outside of the jail facilities.
06/23/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved request to transfer funds from the General Fund Contingency Reserve to the Department of Correction and Custody Health Services to balance departmental year-end budgets.
06/02/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved an increase in the Supplemental Work Allowance (SWA) for the Main Jail South Abatement, Demolition and Temporary Provisions Project.
06/02/2020	Recent Board Actions	Received report from the Office of the County Executive relating to completion of an assessment on the transportation needs of clients in accessing County services.
05/05/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved the Project, adopted plans and specifications, authorized advertisement of Contract Documents for the Construction to Replace HVAC at Elmwood W4/M2 project, and directed the Clerk of the Board to open bids on Thursday, June 25, 2020, at 2:00 p.m.
04/21/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved First Amendment to Agreement with Legacy Long Distance International, Inc. related to adding subsidized inmate phone calls for an 18-month pilot period starting July 1. 2020.
04/21/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved recommendations related to a pilot program to subsidize the cost of inmate telephone calls.
04/21/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved Request for Appropriation Modification transferring $1,000,000 from the Jail Consent Decree Reserve to Custody Health Services budget, relating to an automated medication packager.
04/07/2020	Recent Board Actions	Received report from the Facilities and Fleet Department relating to Emergency Procurement to replace the deaerator tank and boilers at the Elmwood Correctional Facility, the Main Jail Intake Gate, and the Crime Lab Exhaust Fan.

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