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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
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.
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.
03/24/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved Seventh Amendment to Agreement with Global Tel-Link relating to providing inmate telephone calling services.
12/15/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved the Assignment Agreement assigning the Jail Inmate Services Program contract with Legacy Long Distance International, Inc. to Global Tel*Link Corporation relating to the implementation of an inmate phone and tablet service.
03/24/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved the implementation of a Home Detention Program to allow releases of appropriate persons serving misdemeanor sentences in the County jails in order to reduce the jail population as a means of limiting the spread of COVID-19 in the jail system.
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.
03/10/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved the recommendation to decline State Senate Bill 863 funding and utilize County lease revenue bonds funding for the New Jail Construction Project.
11/03/2020	Recent Board Actions	Receive report relating to the implementation of an inmate phone and tablet service.
12/15/2020	Recent Board Actions	Received Management Audit of the Implementation of Custody Improvement Recommendations.
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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