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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 Grant Agreement with the Board of State and Community Corrections relating to providing grant funding for Proposition 47 Grant Program for mental health services, substance use disorders treatment, and diversion programs.
09/24/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved job specification to add classification of Director, Jail Diversion and Justice Services.
04/20/2021	Recent Board Actions	Approved Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring Work Plan relating to the audit of jail reforms recommendations.
09/10/2019	Board Study Sessions on Jail Reforms	Approved plan from Administration relating to implementing subsidized inmate phone calls.
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.
06/04/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved recommendations relating to Main Jail and Elmwood Custody Health Services Staff Work Area Modifications.
05/21/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved recommendations relating to Main Jail Cell Hardening and Main Jail Fire Alarm Replacement.
04/12/2016	Recent Board Actions	Approved recommendations relating to the Blue Ribbon Commission on Improving Custody Operations' final recommendations.
01/25/2022	Recent Board Actions	Approved recommendations relating to the Framework for the County's justice-involved clients.

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