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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
12/10/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved referrals to Administration relating to Custody Health Services staffing and medical care standards in County jails.
04/23/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved request to increase expenditures in the Department of Correction budget relating to attorneys' fees in two class action lawsuits relating to the jails.
08/13/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved request to increase revenue and expenditures in the Custody Health Services budget related to the addition of a Chief Psychologist position.
11/05/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved request to transfer funds from the Accumulated Capital Outlay Fund - Jail Reserve to various custody projects.
06/04/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved request to transfer funds from the General Fund Contingency Reserve to the Department of Correction to balance departmental year-end budgets.
05/07/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved Request transferring funds within the Facilities and Fleet Department budget and an increase in the Supplemental Work Allowance (SWA) for the Elmwood ADA Improvements.
05/07/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved retroactive 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.
06/18/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved Second Amendment to Agreement with Aramark Correctional Services, LLC relating to providing inmate commissary services.
05/21/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved Sixth Amendment to Agreement with Global Tel-Link relating to providing inmate telephone calling services that extends the agreement for an eight-month period through March 31, 2020.
10/08/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved the report relating to the selection process for an independent contractor to perform the functions of the Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring and authorized the Clerk of the Board to commence contract negotiations.

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