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 has been a lot of controversy over trying to bring attention to this. For instance, the statistic that says San Francisco has a distortion at rate of africanamericans incarcerated compared to the percentage of the population is often met with a response that says well, africanamericans commit more crime and therefore this is not an appropriate thing to look at. But a recent study and this is the cited at the bottom there the hayward burns institute, made some findings that i think are really quite dramatic. In that third paragraph there, the rates of pretrial release at arraignment are higher for white adults for almost every quarter and if you look at that, 39 of black adults had prior felonies compared to 26 of white adults. However, white adults with prior felonies were almost more likely to receive of pretrial release at arraignment. Then, the next number, 44 of black adults had prior misdemeanors compared to 45 of white adults. However, white adults with prior misdemeanors were almost always more likely to receive pretrial release at arraignment. So, that something that we are very attuned to and that there are number of very interesting studies that show that even with experienced judges when you give them a folder that lays out whether or not they think somebody should be released, the information, whether or not there should be bail set, and you include a mug shot of an africanamerican or a mug shot of a caucasian person with a very exact same data, they are more likely to 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 dedicating to this effort, in addition to our entire misdemeanor and felony unit that already bring these motions, but this kind of real emphasis on it, can result in 600 additional bail or motions 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 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 they can hope to continue to do and i look forward to the work on the pretrial detention unit one. Next kristin dubarry from the District Attorneys Office. I just want to my presenters, all this information is so interesting so far for me to stop it which is to be aware of time because we have a number of presenters and a number of members of public that want to speak on this item as well. Good morning, supervise. Chairman yee thanks for having me on have addition to journey george to talk briefly about the give that a try to keep my comments brief and readable for any questions you may have. I want to just first sleep set some context why we came to this congress get odyssey, were one of the big drivers people end up in custody. We are the people that decide how long summary states for the most part. Aside from the judges and the courtrooms making decisions independent of us. I think its important to look at criminal justice is a tectonic shift and we been in that moment for the entirety of this decade with the realignment, prop 47, losing dramatic changes in our jail population in our approach to criminal justice in this country. Just yesterday the president was commuting sentences for drug offenders. Its not in San Francisco phenomena. Or having a National Conversation about whether incarceration is the right way to proceed as an intervention and i think its important to have this conversation in that backdrop and not think about this just as a momentary lip there were expensing in 2013 or 14 were actually in the midst of a sea change. Thats particularly important because were talking about infrastructure investment. Talk about making longterm investments in facilities that may no longer meet the needs of our society. So, in San Francisco and around the country drug offenses have been when the largest drivers of jail populations. They always have been since the 1980s. In the last 10 years San Francisco steak and a different approach from a Police Department to the District Attorneys Office. The shares of him, the Public Defenders Office. Weve all take a fresh look at drug prosecutions and arrest and try to decide if thats the most appropriate way to handle that behavior. You can see from these statistics, in 2009, 63 of all our felonies in the District Attorneys Office were drug prosecutions. Last year, 2014, prior to prop 47 passing. 226 . We are receiving fewer drug arrest from the Police Department. Were filing fewer drug prosecutions and fewer people in custody for drugs. Today than there were hired to prop 47 and certainly after. So to talk briefly about the trends. I think the board as were trying to forecast where we should land in 2020, jail population is the continued to decrease down 35 in the last 10 years since 2008 we seen a 34 reduction justin even in admissions, not just gel speak. Jill states themselves have been reduced from an average of 53 days down to an average of 28 days in 2014. Im sure youre all aware the two biggest predictors of your jail need our admissions and length of stay. So, we look at the controllers reports using the shares data from 2014, average daily population lowest in 33 it. I think weve map reference that as a matter of 1285. I think what i found surprising in reading the report continues 2015 numbers. Proposition 47 passed in november of 2014, so the controllers data is 11 months of preprop 47 data and one month of prop 47 date. Maybe a month and a half. So, if we were to take a look at this same information using 2015 data, we would see a further decrease in how average daily population of around 1189. I apologize for interrupting can ask your question about that. I guess the question will post prop 47 will see further decline . The response i got was actually, because we been influencing many aspects of prop 47 prior to the passage by the state, we would not see an impact to prop 47 in San Francisco. Is that what you been seeing in the District Attorneys Office . We are seeing impact. I know there was a hearing shortly after prop 47 passing talking to testify to that people talk about the shift in the work they were experiencing such that they didnt proceed reductions in their staff related to that, but the work itself is absolutely changing and is most noticeable in the jail population. So, if you look at the numbers from 20142015, its about 100 fewer inmates on an average daily population. Thank you for that clarification. This is important because we went through realignment, which every other county in the state experience an increase in the local jail population. We do not experience that. The Sheriffs Office and our agencies were able to maintain the jail population that continued to the client during that time and now prop 47 in additional reduction of 100. This is a chart that shows the average jail population from 2004 through 2015. The solid line is the controllers forecasted population for five years from now. We talked about 2020 but its far away but in five years they are suggesting that there will be 1235 inmates. Rowley below that. So, if you have looked at the 2014 numbers we wouldve needed a slight further reduction in our inmate population to about that 2020 production, but if you use the 2015 average daily population is actually weve gone beneath that which would suggest were forecasting an increase in our jail population in the next five years rather than a decrease. This population reduction using this 2015 numbers shows we would have just rated beds, that the sheriffs the barman says are eligible to be filled by an inmate, not ones in a cell to smile when i would result in overcrowding, just using the appropriate weighted gel vacancy, we have a 50 vacancy with the current population. If we were to go close three and four, the floors of all injustice, we still have a vacancy of 27 . This life just shows the different studies that have been conducted in the past four years find to estimate what our jail population is and what i find important about this is just that were on a continuous downward slide in this. Each time weve done the production we were confident in the number and thes office is work earnestly to give us that numbers but when we reevaluated the number goes down further. It suggest were in the middle of a move and its not necessarily the right time to make a final decision such as infrastructure. This just shows an inverse of the increase in the number of vacancies that we have right. As of today we have 1171 rated vacant beds. I know the purpose of this hearing was to spend some time what else we could do if we wanted to look in a different direction rather than building a jill. I raise the context of the National Conversation because here in San Francisco we been having and now receiving the support through grants the larger National Conversation about really trying to find some innovations that prevent people from committing crime. How do we rehabilitate an offer that integration back into society and to get out of jail incident back into jail . I wanted to raise a recent Pilot Program of the Adult Probation Program just lunch. The housing 42 provisions at the drake hotel get 600,000 of funds they are using to do that. If we were to take the 600 million it will cost us to build and finance the facility we are discussing because for 20 more individuals in the community. Be it the highest estimate we have for the jail bed need is 393. Additionally, i wanted to point out some of the current constraints we have around beds within the system. The Public Defenders Office mention the Behavioral Health courts. A very successful program. We have in our court system dramatically reduced recidivism, has great benefits for public safety, we see incredible turnarounds in peoples lives to that program. However, most people that we identify that are eligible for Behavioral Health court and really should be in a residential treatment that end up reading about 90 days for transfer from jail to those beds. Those are 90 days that we could free up if we had more Mental Health beds we can move people were immediately to those treatment beds and get him underweight with her treatment rather than keeping them in a jail facility. We know that joseph comedogenic yet the more time some installs in jail the more likely they are to commit more crime. Odyssey, particular Mental Health population we want to move them as quickly as we can into a treatment setting and out of the custody setting for those individuals we have agreed are appropriate for that. We have, on average, 4050 people on a given day waiting in custody that they approved for transfer to a Treatment Facility. That sounds like a small number, when we look at the conversation where having about the average daily population and the need over time, we are talking in the range of 100200 people on the high end. The controllers estimate indicates it would get county jails beds open we need somewhere between zero and 21 beds. So, all of these suggestions made both by the Public Defenders Office and our self actually do take a meaningful swipe at the remaining buffer of individuals were talking about housing. Just in closing where office wanted to recommend and the da wanted to recommend to all of you is that we take an opportunity to get a classification consultant that can help us understand what type of a need we have and where they can be appropriately has. We have over 302 beds at county jail six writenow. That jail facility is used as recently as 2010. It was close because were not a need for because the vacancy rates and to make budget savings related to that. In the past, it has housed both medium and maximum security inmate was not ideal and appreciate the deputys assertion is not the ideal setting, it could be a temporary solution while we figure out a better way forward. We can conducted for the population study using the 2015 numbers and him and him so were sure we are using the numbers resulting from reductions seen by proposition 47. Its the most dramatic final justice change weve seen in this country and particularly in the state and it is behoove us to make sure were operating with numbers that reflect that gigantic policy change. Then, finally, we need to conduct a Needs Assessment of the jail population. I think db h is going to see greater later in this hearing. I think there a lot of numbers putting out there probably mentally ill inmates there are, honey people would benefit from a treatment that. How many need to be kept in custody because of their danger levels. We dont have any firm numbers on what the needs of Digital Population are. Perhaps, we will learn the building a Mental Health facility were Supportive Housing that would best meet the needs of this population, without a Needs Assessment we can come to that answer. In closing, i want to give as i was thinking about this presentation, i thought if i had gastric bypass surgery the first thing i would not do is go out and buy an expensive designer wardrobe at the moment i was. I wait i completed that weight loss to make that type of investment. I think were in a moment here in San Francisco. We are in the middle of a sea change and to make a 600 Million Investment when we dont know where we are headed and we dont yet have the final answers as to where we are headed is not the right use of those fun. If, at the end of this we find out we shouldve invested those dollars Mental Health beds, Substance Abuse beds, in Supportive Housing beds, we spent that money on a jail just as we did with why dc that now sits half empty it would be shame to exhausted those resources not be able to provide the Services People actually need to turn their lives around. Thank you. I just wanted to clarify something with the comments in your presentation that cjsix only closed because it was needed to does because it was not needed and it saves money. From my understanding, thats not true. I vaguely remember something about a lawsuit, or something requiring that we rebuild it because of safety reasons, but i dont know all of the facts and im hoping that someone either from the department of public works were summoned from the sheriffs deponent can clarify the facts on that but i dont think that statement is entirely accurate. Sure im sure that the more information the controller support references that the closing for budgetary reasons get a dozen mention a lawsuit. Oakley summoned during their presentation can clarify that. So, we will have the sheriffs deponent present and so, if we can just respond to that question. And clarify the answer that question as well. So, next we do have will young, director pretrial diversion project. After him Cheryl Robinson from dbh and folks want to move to a place where its easier to come up to the committee. Thank you for being here. Good morning. Im sorry. Before you start, i just was notified there is an overflow room for members of the public that are not able to find a seat here. That dark individuals there and we call people from Public Comment we will make sure give enough time to get here from the overflow room. Thank you. Good morning, supervised my name is will leong on the seal of the semper cisco pretrial diversion project just a moment to give you an overview of the organization, we basically have three tracks of services. The first track is case is that, due to service and get interviewed and placement, and thats really to the District Attorneys in road Court Program and cases that work off of our combined some of you are familiar its budget 20, around for many years. Roughly 6000 people go through that program. The second track is our diversion programs, which is the version and restitution. It unveils about 1200 cases a year and basically, its participating in programs in prosecution on an annual basis for quarter of Million Dollars in restitution overturned victims and it approximate 1200 cases a year. The third track, which is why im here today, if the pretrial release programs. The program roughly serves 8000 people a year. On an annual basis, for example in 2014, there were just under 1400 people that were released to pretrial release last year. This year, we are targeting just under 1200 cases that are being released. The key factor in the pretrial release that weve seen over the last, particularly, the last three years, is that weve invested in the Risk Assessment instrument that we had started in 2008. In the summer of last year we had the opportunity to be involved in the Arnold Foundation and the selected by the Arnold Foundation. What that is, bringing into current times they pretrial release mechanism. Its a Risk Assessment instrument that will be utilized by the court. Really, the goal of all pretrial release is to avoid the release of highrisk cases, obviously, and the detaining of lowrisk cases. So, if youre looking at the current population, which is, if we are projected just under 1200 word leases, either cases we can do it better job on . Absolutely. I think that this is an imperfect science. Thats why i think its a game changer that the Arla Foundation is bringing to us this year that we been selected for. That, they are going to implement a tool which is for use by the judges, and its really based on bringing to scale the ability to do massive amounts of assessment and provide information. The very cool thing that is happening with the Arnold Foundation are the three factors that we will look at which, hereto for we do not have. The likelihood of their failure to appear, which is that they appear in court. The likelihood that theyll commit another criminal act, and the third factor is the likelihood of committing another criminal violence criminal act. That piece alone providing to the judges, i think, is a true game changer. The court will have this kind of information, which i think will get into all sorts of much greater decisionmaking and release decisions. We are expected bear in mind, the Arnold Foundation, and this new tool is scheduled to go probably at the end of the summer. We are in the midst of negotiating the mo you currently. Was not driven by the by this issue didnt in fact, the Risk Assessment started in 20082009. We had actually pay for independent. We started using the tool and we are excited because i think as many parties are looking at this and this is clearly the look into the future of how youre going to make better decisions. That the court will have more information, that hereto for it did not have. We are excited to provide it. Bear in mind also that youre talking about that we provide 56000 packets a year to the court. These are incredible amount of information. Over the past two years, a lot has pretrial release has gone online. The key to the pretrial release side is in terms of services. Theres no question theres a decline that the cases we are seeing now are much more difficult. Difficult meaning, they have more Mental Health needs, housing needs, and i think the District Attorneys Office raised a very key issue, which is, if there were resources im a i think you could get people out awaiting transportation into programs awaiting release, that they would be able to be taken out of jail and transported to a program. This is my associate, chief Operations Officer also in makati, and i want to turn to her just to give you an idea a couple of the mental cases that we are seeing now that are typical of the day today and really, i think is one group of cases that you may want to look at the Risk Assessment tool no doubt i think will point to. Good morning. We were involved with the jr i burns institute, the Research Also done as well. The Risk Assessment tool helps provide the judges, the public defender mentioned, as well as the District Attorney mentioned, its more objective. So, is based on a score. Therefore, folks it will prevent the Racial Disparity that is occurring. Most of our clients were coming out, we work with with jc we work with the Behavioral Health court and the collaborative courts as well. Most of the clients of the we are seeing better coming out currently have Mental Health issues as well as Substance Abuse issues. As mr. Barry mentioned, they arent custody from 24 months awaiting placement into a Treatment Facility. Those are clients that if we did take those clients out, they would probably fail out of custody. So there is a long waiting list for them. Or whole process wouldve to get into a Treatment Facility program from custody as well. The clients that we do take out of custody, one of the issues is based on Real Estate One of the issues