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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 ascending
03/14/2019	Remedial Plan	Statement Regarding Approval of Jail Reform Class Action Settlement in Chavez v. County
10/30/2019	Health and Hospital Committee (HHC)	Report from Custody Health Services relating to Staffing Updates
09/25/2019	Health and Hospital Committee (HHC)	Report from Custody Health Services relating to Medical Grievances from Female Inmates.
01/30/2019	Off-Agenda Reports	Report from Custody Health Services on the Medical Grievance Policy
11/05/2019	Recent Board Actions	Received report relating to the continuation of improvements to the release process regarding special populations and preventing the risk of violence and harm, post-release, to self and others, and any other release/risk issues.
12/17/2019	Recent Board Actions	Received quarterly report relating to an inventory and evaluation of parenting programs and contact visitation in the jails at Elmwood Correctional Complex, Main Jail Complex, and Reentry Resource Center.
12/17/2019	Recent Board Actions	Receive report relating to the implementation efforts on placements for High-Needs Women leaving the County jails.
02/12/2019	Recent Board Actions	Receive report relating to classroom space at Elmwood Correctional Facility.
02/12/2019	Recent Board Actions	Receive report relating to an assessment of classroom space needs at Elmwood Correctional Facility as well as a budget and a timeline for building permanent classroom spaces at Elmwood.
02/07/2019	Public Safety and Justice Committee (PSJC)	Receive report from the Office of Women's Policy, the Office of the Sheriff, and the Commission on the Status of Women relating to Jail Monitoring for 2018.

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