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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 Sort descending
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.
03/14/2023	Recent Board Actions	Received report from the Custody Health Services Department relating to the ability of individuals to access myHealth Online after release from custody.
03/14/2023	Recent Board Actions	Received report from the Facilities and Fleet Department relating to emergency procurement to repair a water leak and sink hole at Elmwood Correctional Facility.
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.
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.
04/16/2024	Recent Board Actions	Received report from the Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring relating to Audit of Jail Reform Recommendations.
05/16/2023	Recent Board Actions	Received report from the Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring relating to the August 2019 In-Custody Incident Involving J.N.
08/16/2022	Recent Board Actions	Received report from the Office of the County Counsel relating to options for transferring rehabilitative jail functions to the Department of Correction and provide direction regarding next steps.
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.
12/15/2020	Recent Board Actions	Received report from the Office of the County Executive relating to an approach to the Audit of Jail Reforms Recommendations

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