RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Sheriff-Coroner, or designee, to execute a contract with 3M Electronic Monitoring, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $330,000 to provide an electronic home detention installer on-site to provide orientation and installation of electronic home detention equipment for offenders for the period November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2013.

FISCAL IMPACT:

$330,000 50% AB 109/Realignment funding and 50% Custody Alternative Facility Participant Fees. (Budgeted)

BACKGROUND:

3M Electronic Monitoring, Inc. (3M), will provide two staff members to our Custody Alternative Facility to install and monitor the SCRAMx units and train Sheriff's Office employees on the maintenance and use of the equipment. Due to AB 109 and the realignment, inmates are being moved from state facilities to the counties. In order to avoid over-crowding in our detention facilities, low level inmates will be placed on home detention. Many judges are not sentencing low level offenders directly to detention facilities, but rather to electronic home detention. 3M staff members will assist Sheriff's Office employees by installing the monitoring devices and monitoring the offenders and inmates enrolled in the program.