The judge set a money there. If you compose the money belt you get out of custody. Because if that risk that you post suddenly evaporates simply because you posted money belt, and so for that reason, increasingly theres an interest in moving away from that. Our district atty. Shares our interest in coming up with risk factors that would be more equitable and more appropriate to consider at the time. Deciding whether or not someone should remain in custody. Of course, one of the unfortunate things is that even in a city like San Francisco we are seeing a very disproportionate impact on certain communities of color. So, there are some very successful bail reform models that are occurring right now in other places. Washington dc has a very Aggressive Program that tries to release virtually everyone that gets arrested except for the very few individuals that pose a safety risk, and new york city has been exterminating now with some different programs. The impact on africanamericans, there
Point i made earlier that realignment may have plateaued in the short term, but because of fewer felonies and fewer state prison sentences there there be fewer parolees in the future. Bob 47 will continue to reduce the jail population because its also going to be pushing down the value of some of the offenses that remain a felony offense. Weve have got the currently available slots and collaborative courts and of course, if we expand the criteria, which we occasionally do when we meet with the dist. Atty. And try to find a way to make this available for more individuals, again, that can expand. We got the bail motion efforts. Electronic monitoring. And of course there are other larger strategies that will impact us in the years to come. Certainly, the illumination of money belt will be a major issue. So, thank you all. Thank you. Thank you supervisor for being here and was actually incredibly informative and also really helpful in understanding with public defender has done and what th
Let the caucasian person out of custody. I think that is something that we are just coming to terms with. So, we are excited about the bail reform efforts. We know that we can address the racial disparities, the dist. Atty. Is also committed to it. I dont think anybody, when this information is presented to them, is trying to defend it. I think we are just trying to find a way of creating a more equitable system and make sure that everybody gets due process. Here, with our new resources to really focus on bail, we are hoping that judges that make that immediate determination at arraignment, to set bail and keep somebody in custody, will have an opportunity with a written bail motion and some investigation behind it that can really give that judge an opportunity to know somebody better than perhaps build the confidence that they need to release somebody into the public that they will more likely reached that conclusion. We are estimating that with two attorneys, to paralegals, that were
Mr. Gonzales former member of the board of supervisors to speak on Public Defenders Office. Christine deberry district atty. Chief of staff. Will young the director of the pretrial diversion project. Sharon fletcher the chief of Adult Probation Department is actually here to answer questions if the board has any good she does not have a presentation. Jill Robinson Department of public health, director of Behavioral Health services, deputy chief friedman from the sheriffs apartment. Kyle patterson, from the controllers office, and finally, brian strom and charles declares capital plan and budget dg dpw project manager first i like to ask supervisor matt gonzalez. Welcome back. Thank you. Supervisors, good morning. Public defender within himself that hes on a muchneeded vacation. This is an issue thats important. Let me, if we can go to the presentation and get right into it so this is the way we see the current situation. There are, in effect, three locations were prisoners are held in
Argued in felony and misdemeanor cases, and given our success rate in the last year we are estimating that alone could reduce the jail population by 240. We do think there is an under utilized nation of electronic monitoring this is all something you should consider conducting the sheriff has been committed to this. Its a fairly strong lawenforcement tool of course while somebody is out of custody awaiting trial, you know exactly where they are because of the ankle monitor. We only got 42 individuals anticipating in it right now. We think a very conservative estimate is that could be expanded by 100, and again, thats a substantial reduction in jail population. So, just to conclude then, we have got the point i made earlier that realignment may have plateaued in the short term, but because of fewer felonies and fewer state prison sentences there there be fewer parolees in the future. Bob 47 will continue to reduce the jail population because its also going to be pushing down the value o