attorney indicated the office indicated that they don't have an assessment tool for the purposes of dealing with the electronic monitoring cases? do you have an assessment tool that the sheriff department have an assessment tool? >> we do and i think that we should be careful the catch phrase assessment tools, because there are, it is terminology that often is broadly referred to but it is also vendor driven and we have tools that the adult probation uses as known as compass and the sheriff's department and the ones that we are expanding and the current tool that our em unit has been using, has everything to do with the very scrutinized criteria, of looking at history, cleft and ir and f.b.i. national data, and conferencing with the

classification unit and the adult probation and others within the system to determine whether we should put someone on electronic monitoring or not. but keep in mind, and this is not uncommon, that it is restrictive in the da and the courts. and why the cottage industry is starting to spring back and by rejecting the people and yet, and then the courts and i think that this was just sort of inad ver tant was asking that the people to be put on em and find an em vendor and that they will pay themselves and that they will pay to be put on em after

we officially rejected the em. and i think that our assessment tool should go out for coffee, and the tool and the public defender will want to come out sxh that they want to sort of commingle we should and there is not a uniform assessment tool, that is to form and you should not necessarily be dictated by a one criminal justice agency and let the courts decide. >> and i would like to hear from adult probation, i would have to say that i am rather

shocked that the da assessment tool, given the numbers of electronic monitoring cases that i have imagined have gone through the courts at this very surprised by that. >> but i trust, and frankly, this is why i don't, think that they should demean themselves or ourselves with them in the fact that they have been using their historical knowledge, and without an assessment tool, and that is work for them. and as they grow in to the era of an assessment tool that is great too and that is when the two should come together and the bottom line, judges should decide the out come of this not us. >> could we hear from the adult probation, please? >> and this really is if you

could describe it to where you could understand, this is a sifting process, is that people get arrested and there is a determination made whether they are eligible for release and that is a number of different factors that come into play, and it is my understanding... someone who is innocent until proven guilty and it is highly prejudicial and we know that there are people that need to be incarcerates because they are dangerous but there are also people on paper may look

inappropriate, because they have a low level crime and they have five failure to appear and perhaps there is new information that developed, that now makes them a low risk from custody, and that is really respond to the chief still, to openly support this, was the fact that it was going to go and this whole process was going to go in front of a judicial officer once again. >> and i appreciate that, and do you feel that the

legislation does everything possible to the ex-at the present time that we can to protect the public here are you comfortable? >> i am not privy to the risk instruments and i know that there are providers out there that are profekting those and that is perhaps, where we all get together and we select one that we could all agree with. and but from bha we have now, it is what it is. and i think that you know, no one no one that i am aware of wants to have anything negative tragic occur on their watch and even the best laid plans, and let's be frank, there is just no guarantee. we do the best that we can,

knowing what is the worst case scenario. okay. >> i have a number of speaker cards, any member of the public that would like to speak, come on up and if you don't mind, lining up to the right and our left. please come forward. >> good morning, supervisor campos, and supervisor yee, it is good to see you today and thank you for taking up this important issue and i am jessy, the policy director for the legal services for the prisoners with children and here on behalf of the director dorothy none and we support the proposed ordinance in principal, definitely we appreciate the sheriff's attention to this important issue and the concept into bringing more people out of the jail and into the community and it coincides with our mission

of reuniting the families and releasing the incarcerated people, however, i would like to make several suggestions about the particulars of the way that this is implemented and i see that there are two separate sections in the ordinance, first, 13.63, the home detention and 13.64, the electronic monitoring for 13.63, home detention it looks like most of this is already authorized by the state law and redundant, although we appreciate the notion that the sheriff wants to bring it to the board of supervisors for a full buy-in, and we ask that the sheriff's department be required to publish the rules and we appreciate being able to find the update, for those who are able to be released from their home instead of on electronic monitoring and second it would be good to have more annual public reporting

and evaluation. and so we know how many people are out of jail on this program. of moving to electronic monitoring that is more controversial here today, we as the legal services for the prisonerwise children do support the idea that more people could be released from the setting including on the electronic monitoring and however, we think that it will be even more beneficial from the community if the people are released on the less restrictive means and we have heard the discussion here of the arraignment hearing, where some of the people are released on their own bonds, and the or bonds meaning that the judge in court, trust them to return to court when it is their time and are not requiring them to sheriff their time and we think that for the san francisco or project will greatly increase the public safety as the people are able to return to the community without these risks to continue to earn the income and support their family and also we have heard the praise

here today for the pretrial deversion project, the san francisco pretrial deversion project and already supervises every 1,000 people every day in san francisco and very successfully and has won national awards for the excellent work and we feel that increasing funding for this program will do an even better job than electronic monitoring for continuing to beneficially supervise this population, and so for all of these reasons we ask that the electronic monitoring be allowed that increasingly by, and released on the pretrial inversion. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> good morning, my name is har rot davis and i am a member of the community and i guess that i am actually just reiterating what jessy stout just said is that in i think that the electronic monitoring is good, in that it does give

alternatives to the people being incarcerated with the low level of offenses, and the people who are not a risk to committing more violent crimes, and in the society. but i think that there are other processes in place, and or, and that don't require people to get our economically disadvantaged to help to put out the money because with the electronic monitoring it also is maybe, not as cost effective for the people who are economically disadvantaged. over all i think that there are systems in place that allow these, and the deversion program, also, and i actually had a member of my family who had never had any or been arrested or had any problems, and that was on this and it was for our family he could have been or but for our family it was cost a lot of money and it was really hard on us.

so in theory i think that we already have a law in place for this. and so i am kind of saying why we have to add to it. and so i can see that if the people have been in jail for 30 days to 60 days and showing the good behavior and the staff are able to assess them, and see that yeah, they are possibly really low risk to the community to recommend that they be released on the electronic monitoring but much would prefer as i said or. and on the deversion. thank you. >> thank you. very much. >> next speaker, please? >> and good afternoon supervisors. and it was very interested and interesting to me for the da, because i support all parts of 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 because i work with this population every day. and what i have come to realize is that the taxpayer i have something here and as a taxpayer, i don't think that it is cost effective to leave a person for a low level crime in jail at 140 dollars and upwards a day as opposed to putting them on the electronic monitoring at 16 dollars a day or something in that vicinity and the point is that we know that that person is every day, every second of every day. and it is absolute positive way

to keep complete transparency, for that client, is and it makes a community, a whole lot safer, to be able to identify where that person is and i am mot talking about a murderer, i am talking about a guy who did petty theft or something like that. and so i think that they don't have the economic resources to bail themselves out and as a pretrial, too, i think that electronic monitoring is the best way to go and 100 percent support it as a taxpayer and as a service provider to the sheriff's department to probation and to the superior court, thank you. >> thank you, sir, the next 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 sheriff's department and have now been working for three years. and so, this does work for low level criminals. it has nothing like, i don't see them letting a murderer go on home detention, i don't see them letting anybody that has 3-d 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 and the men and women who manage the electronic monitoring system for the department. >> i wanted to say just a few short things, one, i want to

make sure that we know that in addition to knowing where people are, we also have the ability to monitor their alcohol consumption, and so we know whether they are putting themselves more at risk. and the other thing that i wanted to mention is to make sure that we know that this is a relationship that we do electronic monitoring and not just putting the person, or a person in an electronic jail. but, it is a calculus of interviewing the person and working with the person to provide them the resources that they need to successfully reintegrate with the community. and this means providing them educational services, 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 ex-offender. 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 that i came from, the majority of the people in our jail don't have those resources. they don't have the opportunity to bail out and we can and then on the other issue that i want to talk about was the district attorney brought up the people with prior serious crimes. now, someone could have a prior serious crime from 20 years

ago, not have money, and not be able to get out of jail. if for something minor today. whereas someone can have a prior serious crime and a current serious crime and have money and still get out of jail, and so, it really does, even though the public safety is a big issue, it comes out to people with money are able to get out of jail and the people without money aren't and it comes down to that simple and do we want to keep the people in jail, solely because they don't have the resources? thank you. >> thank you, very much. is there any other member of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. again, i want to thank everyone for their thoughts and comments, and it is clear, that all of us even if we have disagreement, you know, we all agree that the main thing here is that we want to maintain the public as safe as possible and in the process of making sure that we explore the alternatives to incarceration

and i think that it really is about striking the right balance. and we have a motion, and to amend the ordinance, and we also have to include in the amendment, the annual report. and i want to turn it to supervisor yee. >> thank you very much. >> i really, i guess that the last speaker that just spoke, hit the point very clearly to me, in that, with this is going to do is continue to look at vehicles to even out the playing field for everybody regardless of what socio economicks that people come from. and i, again as i said earlier, i think that this is just a little too... for us to help people get back to their lives, and so, with the annual

evaluation reporting to the board of supervisors, and you are even stronger to maybe, to get this passed to the full board. and >> great, so can we take, and i just want to make sure that we are clear on the amendments to our deputy city attorney and our clerk and we are clear on the amendments and a motion to amend the amendments and so we can take the motion to amend without objection, and now on the item as amended, if we could have a motion to move this forward with a positive recommendation, as a committee report? >> so moved. >> we have a moved by supervisor yee if we could take that without objection. >> without objection. item passes. and mr. clerk, do we have any other items before the board. >> i believe that is today's business. >> meeting is adjourned. thank you. at 62942 working wit

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