To: Board of Directors
From: David O. Livingston, Sheriff-Coroner
Report Title: ADOPT Policy and Procedures of the Office of the Sheriff Custody Alternative Facility Programs
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
RECEIVE and REVIEW the rules and regulations and administrative policy of the Office of the Sheriff's Electronic Home Detention Program and the Work Alternative Program pursuant to Penal Code sections 1203.016 and 1203.018.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this request will result in no fiscal impact.
BACKGROUND:
In 1983, the Board of Supervisors established the County's Custody Alternative Program. The Office of the Sheriff Custody Alternative Facility (CAF) manages and operates the County's offered custody alternatives, which include electronic home detention, a work release program, and remote alcohol monitoring.
The Office of the Sheriff is committed to utilizing resources to their highest potential. This necessitates a strong and progressive custody alternative program that provides alternatives to traditional incarceration while ensuring public safety. The CAF programs provide for public safety, maintain judicial confidence and, at the same time, allow participants to be contributing members of society while fulfilling their court-ordered sentences or as part of a pre-trial alternative for electronic home detention.
The Office of the Sheriff operates the Electronic Home Detention (EHD) Program, which provides a cost-effective detention alternative for the County to manage its jail population. This program is an alternative for participants who would otherwise be incarcerated in a County detention facility, at greater expense, to be placed on home detention and monitoring in lieu of incarceration. The Office of the Sheriff utilizes criteria for admission and disqualification to the EHD Program to assess participants' suitability while ensuring that the safety of the community is not comprom...
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