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 as well mention, Substance Abuse, beds that are available for the clients that are coming out of custody. So that we can keep them from recidivism. We can keep them from failing to. We have to make sure the major chordates. We do boston we go to their cameras. We know their street names and so forth to get these guys back to court. However, these clients are homeless. The majority of them are homeless. We also need beds available for these clients and we take them out of custody to my there are few shelter beds. We do work with the clients are currently on probation because probation does have housing. However, we see a short a shortage of beds treatment beds, Mental Health beds, and as well as housing. That is a great problem for our office and the caseworkers and the clients because once we can stabilize our client of Mental Health, their prescription medication, get them into a Substance Abuse program, or into housing while they are waiting and we are working with them, theyre more likely to appear and less likely to reoffend. One question i would ask, director, do you feel that with the current funding that you have that you have the capacity to serve all of the eligible pretrial detainees to your program . Odyssey additional funding would be welcome in terms of seeing more cases. I think the issue is, its not just for the pretrial case orders that equally as important are the available resources. That, if i didnt just bear with me, is not quite as exotic anecdote as Christine Deberry but in the field of dreams movie if you build it and you have the facility, we will be able to do that. I think it makes extensive use of pure advocates and its really access to resources that we need and then you have the staffing to do it. Its labor intensive, meaning youre taking people to appointment. Youre picking them up, delivering them to programs. And scheduled the case managers can turn spend the entire time for the sake of them i would like only one person to respond to questions. But what i will then say is, i think its important that as we continue this exploration and study process, that your program anticipates. But if we can have a sense of what the alternatives are. So we were able to fund this program to a greater extent, how much would that help reduce our jail population while keeping our city safe because of resources that you provided i think thats really where im headed. But its hard to make the answer on the fly here a committee, but i think your voice could be an important one as we can to continue to study this issue. So, thank you thank you. Chapter Jill Robinson from the department of Public Health and we had to have debbie sheriff freeman from the Sheriffs Department. Good morning, supervised on Jill Robinson dir. Of Behavioral Health services. My prior position was that of the director of Behavioral Health services for the jail. I was in the jail for about 20 years. In the jail, there is approximately 1117 of the individuals that have a serious Mental Illness, that being defined as someone with a psychotic disorder were a major Mood Disorder like bipolar. About a month ago we did a oneday snapshot to try to get an exact percentage, and that date it was 14 , which was around 170 individuals. One thing to note, people with Mental Illness tend to stay in a jail longer than those in general population. It is due to a multitude of reasons. Things like the individuals may struggle to understand the court proceedings. They may struggle to work with their attorney in their own defense. They also are frequently homeless. They also dont have the resources to get out on bail or they dont meet the criteria to get on their own recognizance. So, its about 125140 day that these individuals are incarcerated more than those without Mental Illness. Most of the individuals with Mental Illness, that 14 , to have a Substance Abuse disorder. About 80 of the general population has a Substance Abuse disorder. If courts are going to incarcerate individuals that have mental dullness, the facilities need to be safe, they need to be humane, and they need to have places that people can be treated. They need housing areas that are safe, dormitory housing doesnt work for folks that have Mental Illness. Imagine someone thats having a manic episode that may stay up all night talking loudly, singing loudly, cleaning their so imagine how that would go over with other inmates trying to sleep in their dormitory setting. So, they need single cell or two person housing. We need treatment space, both for individuals treatment that meet compliance so private space where the clinician can sit with the client and hear the clients concerns, work with the client that is visible to the custody staff but the custody staff cant hear whats being said. Its also very important that we group rooms. Thatll be what we call therapy rooms so that the individual can roam around. Socialize, when theyre in jail, and learn how to socialize, learn how to cooperate and be in treatment so they can be successful when theyre in community. People that are housed in direct supervision jails generally do better. Jail is the huge risk for suicide and i dont know how many of you have looked at county jails three and four but there the old vail bar jails, though, it kind that you see in the movies. Its hard for the deputies to view inmates are housed in those type of jails. Its hard for the deputies to interact with inmates are housed in those shares. Its hard for psych staff to go in and work with her mill you helping them socialize, helping them become healthier. So, direct supervision jails are very very important to this population. People with Mental Illness and the jail are up a vulnerable population, and they need to be safe in a jail. Staff who treat them also must be safe in a jail. If a jail help staff is it in an area setting oneonone with an inmate with no window, which does happen, its not safe to be sitting with that individual. In county jail five, i dont know if youve seen it. Its been its the newest jail that the symphysis go Sheriffs Department has, we currently have whats called a psychological sheltered living units. In that psych staff in their everyday working with those individuals, working with them in group sessions, working with them oneonone and working with them as they socialize with each other, including playing games, watching television, anything thats going to help them learn how to be in a setting with other people could we have also found that the general population, the mill you setting, helps staff morale. Its very important that you want to a staff that wants to go to work, that theyre compassionate about what they do and that happens at county jail five. At county jail four and county jail six there is currently insufficient treatment space. There is no interview rooms. Theres no group rooms. This no office space for staff. When people work in a jail they must have access to computers and two telephones him and to private space where they can keep confidential records. At county jail four and county jail six this limited access to jim and most of the literature shows that people who are depressed, benefit from physical activity. Its very important that people with any kind of Mental Health issue be able to access jim, access physical activity. Thank you ms. Robbins guy politicking becomes increasingly unfair as presenters, after realizing work him and him close to an hour now with only gone through four of our seven presenters. So just for the sake of time i knew you presented this information yesterday budget committee, and i really appreciate your perspective again today. Actually, i know from supervisor breed and myself i think this is one of the key aspects that we want to explore the most and we talk about rebuilding the jail. I said this yesterday, but the Stanford Law School and California State Senate pro tem Gerald Steinberg came out with the board asking when the prisons become acceptable Mental Health care facilities . I think the there was summarize the report in the back. Thank you for bringing it. Its a really big question. I think increasingly we as a Society Actors here in San Francisco, are relying on prisons and jails as the solution to the Mental Health issue that we are really struggling to address. I really want dph to play a central role in helping us really rethink what our jail system could look like and i cited some of this yesterday at the National Alliance of Mental Illness stated, at some point, 2540 of individuals across the country will at some point be incarcerated. That is a very stock number and knowing that 45 of inmates thursday prisons today are treated for Mental Health illnesses, that at close to 50 of inmates in our state prison system are treated for Mental Health issue. So, clearly, is more we can do in this arena and appreciate some of the solutions you presented in terms of what we can do to better address that issue. Thank you. Thank you. Deputy chief freeman thank you for being here and i just want to say, this charset on for decades has been a Model Department throughout the country. Really innovating and piloting some of our incredible programs around rsvp, restorative justice, and many other programs that have helped prevent recidivism. So i want to acknowledge the sheriffs apartment really innovative work on that. Supervisors, good morning. Its a pleasure to be here to get my name is matt freeman on the chief Deputy Sheriff in charge of the Custody Operations Division city and county of San Francisco sheriffs office. The pleasure to be here today to have the opportunity to briefly speak with you regarding the rehabilitation detention facility project otherwise known as all justice placement jail project. We are also here today to talk you about aarp released by the board of state and Community Corrections pursuant to 863. Replacement of the h linder hall justice judge that a top priority on the state capital plans since 2006. Jeffs apartment has been working with several city agencies as part of the justice facilities Improvement Project since 2008. As you know, the justice facility proven project calls for the relocation of all all justice tenants. Constructed in 1950, the building has received a seismic hazard rating of three which indicates in event of an earthquake any structural damage to the hall of justice be very severe impose appreciable lighthous