Archive

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
Summarized Recommendations Summarized Recommendations
Recent Board Actions Approve Fourth Amendment to Agreement with Global Tel-Link relating to providing inmate telephone calling services
Off-Agenda Reports Off-Agenda Report on the Creation of the Department of Correction
Recent Board Actions Adoption of Salary Ordinance adding 20 unclassified Sheriff’s Correctional Deputy Cadet positions in the Department of Correction
Off-Agenda Reports Facilities and Fleet's Report on the Elmwood Perimeter Measures
Recent Board Actions Transfer funds from the Special Programs Reserve for Jail Surveillance to Capital Project 263-CP16021 "Main Jail North and Elmwood Campus Video Surveillance System” to support Elmwood perimeter measures work
Recent Board Actions Approval of Fourth Amendment to Agreement with Carry the Vision relating to providing Restore Life Skills stress reduction sessions at the Elmwood Correctional Facility, Main Jail, Reentry Resource Center and South County Reentry Center
Off-Agenda Reports Behavioral Health Services Department's Report on Psychiatry Recruitment
Recent Board Actions Transfer funds from the General Fund Contingency Reserve to the Department of Correction and Custody Health Services budgets to balance departmental year-end budgets
Recent Board Actions Receive report from the Office of the Sheriff relating to a revised Use of Force Policy and Training Update

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