Include pretrial alternatives, pretrial diversion, you are well young talk about that. Where account accountable homeless services. What we also 2. 0, 123based servers and alternative preservation is the current job sure if dosed in 2013 pushed legislation forward to expand the use of pretrial electronic monitoring, which further is evidence to the commitment of this agency to pretrial alternatives and alternatives to incarceration. Sheriff has been an advocate of vale performed something that has been talked about here today and supervisors like dui data sheet that gives you a complete breakdown of what the current bail statuses for every inmate is in the county jail today. The sheriff has spoken consistently and eloquently that is the two of aforementioned initiatives were to go forward, that the drop in recidivism would continue to see a drop. Going to the issue of county jail number six and some of the questions supervisor breed that were brought up, number six was actually erected because of federal oversight. It was enclosed because of federal oversight. It was built in the midlate 80s in response to federal oversight of the San Francisco county jail because at the time we were experiencing significant jail overcrowding. Get inmates house on the floor, room causes, gym floors. It was built to house the very specific inmate population. That was minimumsecurity inmates that were in the county jail at the time predominately for misdemeanor offenses. That is a population that is not been placed in secure detention in this county for many many years. It was closed because it no longer fit the need of the Sheriffs Department and the type of inmates that we had committed to the jail by the courts were not suitable. It was not safe for the inmates or the staff to house them there. Also, quite frankly the issues do play a role in that type of decision. That is the bulk of my presentation for you to get i want to thank each and everyone of you for alumni to address the committee. Of course, given the questions be more than happy to answer them. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation i just want to reenter it again ive always been a fan of the Sheriffs Department long before was on the board of supervisors because of the programming that you provide within counties. I visited five keys and i was on the school board. The program which i actually used a model for School District when i served on the school board. Its really amazing the work that this department has done for decades long before the rest of the country were paying attention to these types of pilots to muscle thank you for their common leadership on this program. A . I have a question. Chairman yee for whatever reason am pressing a button it does not show up. Thank you for your presentation. Thank everybody for your presentation get is a lot of information that has been given out to me and very thorough in the presentations. Comedy bits we need and so forth. What type of inmates we are seeing at this point. One of the things that are not been discussed among which is i guess pretty important factor for me, is in regards to in particular, those that are waiting for the trials, or the bonding set, im just curious how many of those have visitations from families and friends . One of my Major Concerns is, if we were not to have certain beds in San Francisco and we were, lets say we renovate jail six, is it correct we did that and we transport people for trial to be down there one of the biggest concerns i have is whether or not these are people who cant afford bonds so theyre probably coming from very poor backgrounds. So, the families themselves, if they wanted to provide support while theyre waiting may be very difficult for them to provide the support. Maybe a wrong assumption on my part, but im concerned about that. What would happen . Are we seen people having visits in the city . I think up you bring a good point supervisor. It is a very poignant fact to point out that the san bruno jail carpets which is home two jail five and six is located in the city of san bruno south of San Francisco. With accident studies ive had members of my staff take Public Transportation report back to me how long it took them to get to san bruno. Three hours is on the low end. So, its not a great location for family members to make it out on visitation days and see their family members. Having said that, as an expression of our commitment, the Sheriffs Department commitment, to see to it that devotees remain, the shirt actually funds a shuttle free of charge from San Francisco to the san bruno jail complex so that family members can visit their loved ones that are incarcerated. Another critically important parts of our Visitation Program is what we call one family. Where we have inmate child facilitated contact visits, which is shown to be a Great Success not only 40 incarcerated person, but for the dependent children to making that family bond, but once again, the san bruno because of the geographical difference and because of the way those facilities were constructed, thats not optimized. It gone the extra mile to actually design in the rpf specific areas for inmate children visitation. Thanks for that answer, but what im after is whether or not theres higher visitation while the inmates are in San Francisco versus being in san bruno even though you have sh a shuttle that i could surely get back to you on that. I can tell you anecdotally, just what i see with my eyes, i would say the visitation rate is higher for the jails located in the city. I would appreciate that if you could get me that information. Absolutely. So, we have our final two presenters. Kyle patterson from the Controllers Office and brian strong [inaudible] good morning, supervisor. Maybe good afternoon at this point it minus Kyle Patterson comptrollers office. Could you speak you briefly say about our jail population forecast update which is about a month ago. On this charger you can see the average daily population from 19802014. You can see since 93 theres been a slow decline in the jail population. However, over the past five years is been a very steep decline. However, i think thats a little misleading referred many times say the job operation is been declining very quickly. I dont think we will continue doing it hard into the future . The reality is, over the past 3. 5 years as in a couple major policy shifts, vastly seeing the joe population has flattened out. The chart here shows the Monthly Average daily population from 20 weight2014. The blue shaded eight episodes the impact estate realignment on the joe population and the line is joe population as an estate realignment. The point awake from the site visibly that you can see on the left side theres a steep to climb in the joe populist but in 2012 we can see a leveling out going on there. Looking even more closely, this is the daily joke out from 2014. We can see the joe population main very flat over the first 10 months of the year and of course proposition 47 passed in november which downgraded a number of felonies to misdemeanors we saw a drop in the joe population of 100150 folks. So the joe population has really remained flat with pass through but five years activities policy shifts and actually, in 2015 we seen an upward tick in the joe populated the jail population is been moving up. So when their comments if we had included 2015 data in our forecast of protest would be lower, this is not necessarily the case because i mention were were seen in 2015 is an upward trend in the joe population. We present our forecast into sinners the real quick question of whether not county jail six can be used. If county jail six can be used we forecast we may not need the jail at all. If, however, county jail cannot be used, then we would need a jail between 120393 beds in 2020. Its important note, a replacement jail of the size between 120 and 393 beds would represent a 5386 reduction from the hall of justice jails. An 1830 reduction in the jail did talk about contraction in the jail system. As i mentioned in the last five, the big question about county jail six. I know lots of others have spoken about in todays wont bore you making you hear me speak about it, but i think the key issue is that whether not we can safely house highsecurity inmates in this the so did you contain image on the lower left county jail six is up 372 bed facility and san bruno. Its entirely dormitory housing. Theres no sales in there whatsoever. The shards of honor so strongly only minimumsecurity inmates can safely be housed there. Is that what other notices proviso that suggestively some medium security inmates could be housed there. This area the board of supervisors would like more information moving forward will be happy to investigate that in the coming months. Thats all i happen i would add one final comment which is that today theres been a lot of discussion about the alternatives that may reduce the joe population as part of our forecast we spoke with many different criminal justice partners but this plan programs and policies. Its important to note actually reduce those jail population with those policies you have to await some other plan programs and policies that may push the population upward. What is been namely the plan hiring of hundreds of new Police Officers in the coming year. That could have it upward impact on the joe population. As a mentions alternatives without it outweighed the population did am happy to answer any questions you have. Thank you. We appreciate you speaking at two times speed. Notice. And our continued work with poor comptrollers office. This is been great information. Thanks we have our final presenter. Good afternoon, chairperson emac. Supervise. My name is charles harris. Im with public works are not speaking the capacity per se. Instead i am representing brian strong from Capital Planning was away on vacation. In appreciation of other marks than offered by previous speakers, and in appreciation of the time, but i like to do is set aside the presentation that i put before you because i think it was substantially addressed by the prior speakers, especially chief freeman. What i would instead like to do is offer you what i hope is some valuable background in regard to the planning that has occurred for this project. In 2006 with the initiation of the capital plan, the jail replacement was first broached. In year 200708 we debuted the justice facilities improvement program. This program is a strategy to replace the entirety of the hall of justice. We define a strategy by withdrawing or vacating the hall of the department [inaudible] is a program that gained momentum through the passage of earthquake Safety Response bonds. We have already taken Police Headquarters away from the hall as well as Southern District station. We are intending to withdraw the office of chief medical examiner from the hall in fiscal year 1718. We are under way with the planning of the Traffic Company and Forensics Division for the Police Department project and the project will withdraw those two elements were aspects from the hall in fiscal year 19 and 20. What will remain effective 2020 would sensibly be District Attorney and probation and police investigations. The matter possibly of jail replacement is pending. So, the momentum to draw folks out of the hall is underway and substantially so. Em mission that upon their departure from everyone from the hall we would demolish the west wing and make it available to the civic for superior courts replacement building. Upon that commitment from the state the realize asian of that facility, they would then move from what is the east wing where they currently reside into their new building and then we would presumably demolish that east wing. Creating a plaza or public space among the different buildings that would continue at that location. So, i just thought important to give you a larger sense of the intent in regard to the hall of justice replacement and certainly am available to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Thank you. I dont see any further questions. I just want to reiterate, i dont think anyone on this board disagrees with this statement that jail three and four are completely out of whack and that we shouldnt have anyone in those two facilities that i think we all agree with that. I think the question is what do we put in its place . What does the data show us in terms of the trends that we as a city and country are taking around mass incarceration, wages are moving away from realizing not only is it incredibly expensive and burdensome for taxpayers, but it doesnt even necessarily make our cities the community safer. So, rather than think about this moment is an opportunity to expand rebuild the jail, i think the better way to look at it is an opportunity for us to rethink our jail system. That is what our hearing is here today and this discussion will obviously continue at least for the next year. At this time, id like to open up to public comments. We actually have speaker cards. I appreciate your and easy as him to speak it im going to call the first 10 cards and if you can line up and if you are in an overflow prestart heading over to the committee room. I have rev. Glenda houck, etc. Etc. Rev. Thomas thank you for being here. Im the founder and for 17 years for the safe house for homeless women. We are one of the cbos wizard alternative to incarceration. The majority of our residents have a long criminal record, but they now wish to transform their lives, escaping poverty, addiction homelessness, danger, and prostitution. We are alarmed by the growing numbers of women who come to us who have Mental Health problems, including head trauma, recurring seizures, bipolar, hallucinations severe dissociative disorder. Ptsd paralyzing anxiety and depression and drug addiction. Also, what ive not heard mentioned here today is we have women come to us who have significant developmental disability. The women who come to us in majority has suffered longterm incest and other child abuse. The majority have been on the street since they were an average of 14 years old. We need we offer a conference of 18 month old unit and education program. Including therapy, education, dental care, job readiness, many management, nutrition, Substance Abuse and selfdefense and we do this at less than two thirds of the cost it would be we would encourage people woman in jail. I invite you, please, to remind you rather, San Francisco once had a network of boarding residences for mentally ill people who do not need to be institutionalized number but who do need safe housing with minimal support to remain compliant, wellnourished [inaudible] thank you. By the way, i hate cutting anyone off, especially reverends. I apologize for doing it just want i know we have a lot of speakers, to make sure we get through before folks have to go. I like to see my position to dr. Kerry does i apologize. Yes. You can come up afterwards but yes dr. Cooper was on my list. Thank you. Hello. , supervised. Thank you for the careful consideration to this important issue. My name is terry cooper. Im a psychiatrist. I the community practice. My professor at the right instance. I was a consultant to Progress Foundation and connections a Collaborative Program and San Francisco those very successful. It is a shame in our nation in a population over jails and prisons has multiplied at least sevenfold since 1970s. Meanwhile, the proportion of prisoners with serious Mental Illness is actually been rising. We have essentially institutionalized people with Mental Illness moving them from the state hospitals to the jails and prisons another way to say that weve criminalized Mental Illness. The National Sheriffs association and Treatment Advocacy Center published a report showing that 10 times as many people with serious Mental Illness are in jails and prisons as in our hospitals. One response to the problem is to build a Mental Health jail. As you know, los angeles is also considering that option. Behavioral Health Prisons are in a vote. California has one. Work on is proposing. This approach is foolhardy. For many reasons. Jails and prisons necessarily involve a culture of punishment that is very damaging for people with Mental Illness. Theres a basic in psychology. People change their behavior in response to rewards, not punishment. Jails and prisons are set up actually as punishment systems. Another important pencil is that people with Mental Illness will not improve the medications alone. They need to be talked to. They need psychotherapy, group therapy, and social revocation, which San Franciscos many fine programs. The medications are one part of a conference of treatment plan, but of medication alone to be the entire plan their very badly lost. Usually, the patients become subdued because they are drugs. They also become obese and with less. This list. In every public initiation local government and the federal government that im aware of, new programs are devised and funded then after a while interest wanes and funding and the budgets are cut. A program deteriorates. What my concern is about a Mental Health jail is that after the judge of ipod as i thought i was your first bout in fact that was your second go. I do have to ask you to finish your sentence. We may call you back up afterwards so you clearly have a lot of expert