so what does it mean for realignment? it not only exacerbates our broken immigration system, which i think republicans and democrats would agree is in drastic need of reform, just like our prison system. it also significantly broadens our local jails by increasing our jail population. according to recent news reports, the san francisco sheriff expects the realignment plan at the state level to increase our county's jail population by about 42%. that means we need to free up space in our county jails for this expected influx. the problem is it results in immigrants being housed in our jails who would normally be released if not for their immigration status. since june 2010 when it started in san francisco, almost 1000 individuals have been held by our local jail in san francisco. the vast majority -- about 60% of this 1000 figure -- were arrested for low-level crimes. you might have heard about the story of norma in the "los angeles times." she was held as a victim of domestic violence to call the police for help. because

and the realignment was a major motivator behind that. the state did have, in the backdrop, this lawsuit where they needed to drop population. the court is basically forcing them to reduce the population by 33,000. i think that is an important element as we look at the plant and a wide happen to know what the results will be. additionally, the state's economic condition forced them to do business differently, and the state proposes to save approximately $1.4 billion from the several statewide shift of population to the locals. i, and many others across the state, are very concerned, because there funding formulas do not cover the cost of this population shift. with that said, from a criminal justice and public safety perspective, i can absolutely say that i believe it is very good state policy to do the shift. they just need to provide additional funding. with that said, one of the other factors to consider when we look a population, there is a 47,000 inmates that spend less than 120 days in state prison. what you had is that constant cyc

the realignment team will work within the existing reentry units. the public defender's office has a reentry unit that has a social work component, and the clean slate program. the social work program provides high-quality clinical work and advocacy. the social workers place hundreds of clients on a yearly basis and hundreds of clients on community-based programs and social services. the goal -- the reason the realignment team will work within the office's reentry unit is so that we can build on prior successes. we conducted a study in 2009 that evaluated our program, and the evaluation showed -- and i provided you a copy of the evaluation -- that almost every client that had a social worker and an attorney working as a team together -- almost 98% had a favorable legal outcome, and they were placed in community- based programs and residential programs and in treatment services. the goal at this point with realignment is to expand on programs that are successful, and that is the point of having the realignment team working through an existing success

so that we got to look at realigning, redefining our public policy. before we dom grips with this problem -- come to grips with this problem, mass incarceration of african-americans followed by latinos in this nation, this state, this county, and city. i want to finish my comments by saying that on the council i didn't hear anything said about -- from the community at all. according to the people's religion, african-americans are the most religious group in this nation. though they don't go to church every sunday, gallup says we're the most religious. any sunday morning you will find 5% of african-americans in some church of faith community, mosque, meeting place. 43% of whites. about 30% latinos. and about 20% asians. so if you want to get to the african-american community and really make a difference, you got to go through the church, the faith community. but we are not doing that. they have begun to do it in the state of florida, and they have had some successful best practices in decreasing the recidivism rate. i don't have time explain those prog

we have a realignment plan that we have been crafting. fortunately, because we have been meeting so frequently and working with all the realignment partners, we will be prepared to come forward startin. starting july 5, we will release a plan for public input on july 12. the funding specifics are blank for what we're going to put out publicly, because we're waiting to hear from the state. what i can tell you is that the revenue will not match what the anticipated expenditures are. i anticipate there could be upwards of a 50% in difference between the two figures. for adult probation, we anticipate a significant impact. we will have up to 700 realigned prisoners under our nauert post- custody release supervision. murder -- under our now post- custody police supervision. supervisor mirkarimi: ultimately, the adult probation is really the backstop in helping process and to manage these significant portion, if not everybody, that has spent realigned back to us. since the state now has a green light by the governor to sign the budget and they'

we're working statewide with a lot of counties on their realignment plans. and i was so excited to hear a lot of the way you all are talking about alternatives through incarceration and programming. and i encourage you to share those models with other counties. because we're seeing a lot of threats of other counties expanding their jail capacity instead of actually supporting people to be successful in the community and stay in the community as opposed to increasing people's times in the jails. and then curb, a lot of the work we're doing is also on the state level. and a lot of the pushback we're hearing from legislators from the governor's office and from the cdcr is that there's no political will for parole and sentencing reform. and i think that that's not true. and that if we don't actually start shifting our priorities on the state level in the same way that we're seeing happening in san francisco county that we're -- [tone] we're going continue to see an over reliance on incarceration in our state. and then finally, i just wanted to put in a plug that

[tone] i'm glad to see that we have came out in support of realignment. chairman mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is lisa marie. i'm a statewide organizer with critical resistance and californians united for a responsible budget. having spent some time in other counties also dealing with realignment, it is clear that there's statewide consensus that realignment runs a huge potential of merely shifting the responsibility of overcrowding from the state to the counties. i think that san francisco county is playing a critical role as acting as a model county for other counties throughout california. so i want to appreciate the leadership of the s.f. county executive committee for prioritizing alternative and community aid programming in this plan. and i want to push and encourage this board to take it one step further. there are other bowled and precedent setting -- bold and precedent-setting moves that we need you to take. i think, supervisor cohen, your point around s.f. taking on probation duties, what we

and we have been working with counties around the state as the realignment. legislation came down try to help advocate for really plans very much like the one that we have seen coming out of our probation department so we think it's a good plan overall. i think that the chief is still to be commended and the folks on the executive committee. we do have a few concerns that i would like to share with you briefly, and also some suggestions about thinking about the future. we share the concerns that have been expressed by the public offenders office about how exactly this is going to roll out in terms of the post release supervision rev indication proceedings, particularly the incarceration. we have to see how that is implemented. the but there is an inherent tension between the idea of swift and certain punishment, which is the idea of lash incarceration. and intention between that and due process. if someone tests positive with these preliminary tests for having used drugs and is incarcerated immediately for five days, by the time we find out it was a false-pos

we will have a hearing on realignment. there has been progress since the last hearing, and we will make certain that adult probation -- that they're here for that. this is not a question of if or when any more. is there anyone else that you would like to bring up? >> i do want to recognize beverley upton, who is from the domestic violence consortium, and the advocacy that you and your coalition partners have made over the years. if there are any comments that you would like to make i would like to give you the chance to make them. i of the advocates have been waiting very patiently for over 10 years for this, and if you would like to comment on this i would like for you to do that. >> thank you, members of the public safety committee. i always start with a 2002 article that ran in the chronicle. we talked about the cry for justice. this is in 2002. this is all in your packet. y'all have this article. there have been some lessons learned. when we all stood in shock after the killing in 2000 and mayer brown said that the cit

it is essential to be a member of the round table dealing with prison realignment. supervisor cohen, i believe it does speak for itself. supervisor cohen: i think it does speak for itself. supervisor mirkarimi: any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. please read item three, madam clerk. >> resolution designating on an interim basis, the san francisco adult probation department as the county agency responsible for implementing post-release community supervision until an ordinance designating the san francisco adult probation department as the post-release community supervision authority is considered an adopted by the board of supervisors. supervisor mirkarimi: every city and county is required to designate a specific agency for assembly bill 19, public safety realignment. as part of that process, we have asked the san francisco probation department to be that , lead that orchestration. and to do that, we will be beginning the process of the prison realignment implementation plan of adult probation. as we read this resolution that desi

or even happening at this level of prison realignment. so if we do this right and do this well, i think so many amazing things can happen from this. but if this does not go well, then i think that the consequences could really set us back by years. so there really is much riding on this realignment program, which i think could be very much of the laboratory for us to change how we are dealing with this level of offender population in a way that has never been dealt with before, in a mainstream way. >> i would absolutely agree with that. the federal government also agrees with that in terms of they have invested a significant amount of grant dollars in sentences go, basically funding some of these innovative strategies. san francisco probation alternative court, individuals facing state prison. instead of re-entering them and having a parole reentry board, basically wea started an alternative court. not one of the individuals is gone to state prison. we have used the same approach. an individual assessment and treatment plan, wraparound se

plant is that we request that the board consider the proposed city and county 2011 public safety realignment plan. it designates sentences go adult probation as the post-release community supervision agency. the sheriff's department is the agency that will have jurisdiction over all those serving custody time. this includes alternatives to incarceration during the custody period as opposed by the court. the sheriff and adult probation will utilize home detention and electronic monitoring of the plan focuses significant amounts of resources on community corrections. the level will be determined by the board's final decision. the funding is for nine months due to the october 1 implementation. the funding formula, in terms of how much money comes to the city, is set at the state level. it was negotiated with the department of finance and the legislature. these formulas are subject to change every year. and this one is set for this nine-month period. one of our strong recommendations is to have the board and mayors support local legislation and reaching out to our statewide leaders to change the

this thursday, the public safety committee at 10:30, we are having our first hearing on the realignment as it implicates -- as a applies to us. the budget had not been signed by the governor in the previous hearings. now that the budget has been signed by the governor, now we have greater clarity of how much money will be coming to san francisco. this and now requires us to figure wrote how do we receive this infusion of inmates without the proper, commensurate dollars, so that discussion must take place, and next to what to say congrats to the recreation and parks department. the women's world cup soccer. it was extremely excited. i could not have been more proud of team usa, and it was extremely exhilarating watching the match between japan and u.s.a. i was beaten to the council general of japan last week and said that i think it would be important that depending on which team, i would like to go ahead and extend a further invitation to the japanese seem to come visit san francisco. i think it would be a great event, and the usa team, as well korean people should be reminded that we h

>> maybe it's reverse realign realignme realignment. i don't know what you'd call it. maybe the courts will decide what you'd call this. but, you know, oakland mayor gene quan, mayors got together in oakland this week and said this is not going to stand. oakland, modesto, supported a lawsuit. they're pushing the supreme court to which this lawsuit was filed directly, to at least put a stay on this part of the budget by august 15th while it decides the rest of the case on the merit so it doesn't go forward any sooner than that. >> belva: what about the fact that regions or cities are being asked to pay a certain amount of money, i guess, to stay in the redevelopment business? is that it? >> you could call it a shakedown i suppose. if you were so inclined to do so. that's certainly the way the league cities and like-minded people would call it. the brown administration's position is we only have so much public money in this state to go around. that benefits of a lot of these redevelopment agencies are shaky at best, that there's some evidence that the job creation they'v

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