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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
10/20/2020	Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring (OCLEM)	Adopt Resolution urging the Office of the Sheriff, in collaboration with County Counsel, OCLEM, and all other relevant County agencies and departments to finalize the information sharing agreement mandated by Section A20-64 of the County Ordinance Code.
12/08/2020	Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring (OCLEM)	Adopted Ordinance No. NS-300.946 amending Section A20-64 of Chapter V of Division A20 of the Ordinance Code of the County of Santa Clara relating to Cooperation and Access to Information for the Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring.
02/11/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved actions relating to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019-2020 Mid-Year Budget Review (refer to pages 14 and 28 for specific items).
06/02/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved an increase in the Supplemental Work Allowance (SWA) for the Main Jail South Abatement, Demolition and Temporary Provisions Project.
09/22/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved Contract Change Order for Main Jail South Demolition.
03/10/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved establishment of Capital Improvement Project titled "Improve Elmwood ADA Path of Travel" and transfer of funds from the Accumulated Capital Outlay - Jail Reserve to the "Improve Elmwood ADA Path of Travel" Capital Project.
04/21/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved First Amendment to Agreement with Legacy Long Distance International, Inc. related to adding subsidized inmate phone calls for an 18-month pilot period starting July 1. 2020.
04/21/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved recommendations related to a pilot program to subsidize the cost of inmate telephone calls.
06/23/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved recommendations related to the Electronic Monitoring Program surveillance system and monitoring devices that will serve as a custody program alternative to allow inmates to serve some or all of their sentence outside of the jail facilities.
10/06/2020	Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring (OCLEM)	Approved referring 22 community-prescribed public safety reform recommendations to the Community Corrections and Law Enforcement Monitoring Committee for review and evaluation.

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