The law enforcement. But i was really surprised when the da compared the people like with a Million Dollar bond murder, you know, committing a murder, to what is going on here today. Because, i was like what . How can you just like the sheriff was saying, it is apples and oranges to the way in los angeles, but, we just like when i was in my addiction some years ago, and i was in the middle of the revolving door because of my addiction, but, with the money that could be saved for opening a new jail, that if people are allowed to go on the monitoring and process that could go into housing, and then, in the Mental Health services and other things that would that is really needed to help the people stay out of jail. So, i really wish that you would bring this forth to the full board, thank you. Thank you, next speaker . Good afternoon. My name is luke gordon and i am the executive director of recovery survival, and i am here in full support of the electronic monitoring and home detention.
And, it is not be a. Your office allows for the monitoring and you are basically able to allow for the individuals to be in the system, is that true . I am not sure that i understand the question. Lets say now, can, your office offer an individual to be electronically monitored . Well, in the bail proceedings. During the arraignment, the court ultimately makes the decision we make the argument and the Defense Council makes the argument about what we think is appropriate and you can imagine the scenario where the defense attorney will say this person is safe and he will come back to court and you should release him on the promise. And we might be saying we disagree with that and we think that there is danger or a risk of him not determining and the judge makes a determination of multiple things set, bail and release them on the promise to appear and on supervised promise to appear and go through the pretrial and have a case manager and i believe that in the Court Electronic monitoring b
Speaker . Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is martha roots and i am here today as an ankle monitor success story. San Francisco Sheriff Department assessed me, and put me on an ankle monitor for 75 days. And that time, i was electronically monitored through all of my walk of every day and i was also home detained after 9 00 p. M. , in that time, i got my high school diploma, received an internship through the Sheriffs Department and have now been working for three years. And so, this does work for low level criminals. It has nothing like, i dont see them letting a murderer go on home detention, i dont see them letting anybody that has 3d uis with may hem going on electronic monitoring but for those low level criminals that do deserve the Second Chances it does work. I want to thank you for sharing your story. And very inspiring and congratulations. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is kevin pull son and i am assigned to the Community Programs which means that i manage the deputies a
And how long has this been happening . For as long as the criminal Justice System has been in existence and that is largely been done without a tool which is why we are pushing so hard on the office in multiple fronts and the scientific measures for how we do our work, rather than relying on human instinct and the years of experience in the office to make those determinations and because you get the different out comes from that. And but you can continue to make those arguments without the tools . Yes, i mean that it is necessitated by the process, right . We cant just say that everybody stays in or gets out. It is in the system that we have a bail hearing at the arraignment to determine if someone liberties should be restrained. And so that is the system that we all function within when the District Attorney was elected he said that i would like to have an informed process around that and a tool that my prosecutors in the court can rely on to help them to understand the individual and
Substance abuse services, and a variety of violence interventions so that we give them the tools to succeed in the community at the same time as letting them know that we are watching them and working with them for their success. Thank you. Thank you. Captain. Thank you for what you do. Thank you. Next speaker . Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is nick and i am the director of the Legal Services in jails in San Francisco and i am an attorney and i am also an exoffender. And one of the things that i have been working here for 15 years that mike hennesse pointed out to me when i started working here is people who go to court from outside from the street, usually stay out of jail. I was one of those lucky people many years ago. I came from a family who was able to bail me out of jail and i was able to get out, and eventually get my life together and show the court that i was worthy of staying out, part of that was the color of my skin and part of that was the Socio Economic family tha