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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
09/13/2022	Recent Board Actions	Approved recommendations relating to the Inmate Tracking System.
10/22/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved recommendations relating to the Jail Inmate Services Program.
06/28/2022	Recent Board Actions	Approved recommendations relating to the pilot program to subsidize the cost of inmate phone calls.
02/28/2023	Recent Board Actions	Approved recommendations relating to the transfer of the Faith-Based Collaborative Program from the Behavioral Health Services Department to the Office of Diversion and Reentry Services.
02/28/2023	Recent Board Actions	Approved recommendations relating to the upgrade of the public safety camera system throughout the Custody Bureau facilities.
06/18/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved referral to Administration to report to the Board relating to the feasibility and actions associated with expanding contact visitation within the jails.
09/24/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved referral to Administration to report to the Board with options for consideration relating to the feasibility, cost and timeline associated with developing a new clothing classification color for minimum security incarcerated women at Elmwood.
12/10/2019	Recent Board Actions	Approved referrals to Administration relating to Custody Health Services staffing and medical care standards in County jails.
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.
10/06/2020	Recent Board Actions	Approved Request for Appropriation Modification to transfer funds from the Custody Health Services budget to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center budget relating to the California Medication Assisted Treatment Expansion Project.

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