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C. 58

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	PUBLIC PROTECTION COMMITTEE
Date:	July 30, 2019

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

AB 109 Annual Report for FY 2017-18

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 07/30/2019

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

Lara DeLaney, (925) 335-1097

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: July 30, 2019
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

ACCEPT the FY 2017-18 AB 109 Annual Report, which was prepared by the Office of Reentry and Justice and recommended for acceptance by the Public Protection Committee and the Community Corrections Partnership.

FISCAL IMPACT:

This is for information only, and there is no fiscal impact for this item.

BACKGROUND:

The County Administrator’s Office has commissioned the preparation of a "Public Safety Realignment in Contra Costa County, AB 109 Annual Report" since FY 2014-15. The FY 2017-18 AB 109 Annual Report has been prepared by staff of the Office of Reentry & Justice in collaboration with all AB 109-funded County departments/agencies/divisions, the Superior Court, and the contracted community-based organizations engaged in reentry service provision. The report draws from a template prepared by Resource Development Associates (RDA), with oversight from the County's Community Corrections Partnership (CCP).

BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)

The Community Corrections Partnership received the FY 2017/18 AB 109 Annual Report at its meeting on June 7, 2019 and recommended its acceptance by the Public Protection Committee (PPC). The Public Protection Committee received the FY 2017/18 AB 109 Annual Report at its meeting on July 1, 2019 and recommended its acceptance by the Board of Supervisors.

The AB 109 Annual Report provides an overview of AB 109-related activities undertaken in Contra Costa County during the fiscal year 2017/18, with a focus on understanding the impact of AB 109-funded County departments, divisions, programs, and contracted service providers. Toward this end, this report describes the volume and type of services provided by all of the County’s AB 109 partners over the course of the year. The FY 2017-18 Annual Report is included as Attachment A.

Contra Costa County has responded to AB 109 Public Safety Realignment in a manner that has allowed the County to provide supervision and services to the AB 109 population, while building a collaborative reentry infrastructure to support the reentry population’s successful reintegration into the community. The County has followed best practice models in establishing access to services through the West County Reentry Success Center’s “one-stop” model and the Central & East County Reentry Network’s “no wrong door” approach.

During the 2017/18 Fiscal Year, a number of key initiatives and investments further refined and enhanced the County’s approach to AB 109 Public Safety Realignment, as well as reentry more generally. These included:

Undertaking a comprehensive planning process to update the County’s 5-year Reentry Strategic Plan (2018-2023);
Development in the Behavioral Health Division the County’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Plus (“CoCo LEAD+”) project to divert individuals with behavioral health needs and multiple recent low-level arrests from the justice system into a supportive array of programs including cognitive based teaching, restorative programs, employment and housing assistance;
Launch of the Stand Together Contra Costa pilot project by the Public Defender's Office to provide no-cost rapid-response support, civil deportation defense legal services and clinics, immigrant rights education and training, and direct-service support for immigrant individuals and families in the County;
Completion of the Final Report from the Board of Supervisors’ 17-member Racial Justice Task Force (RJTF) identifying racial disparities in the local justice system and providing the BOS with a set of recommendations on how these disparities might be addressed and reduced;
Development by the Workforce Development Board of a state funded “Sustainable Occupational Advancement and Reentry Success” (CoCo SOARS) program to provide employment training for individuals on formal probation and to host three Fair Chance Employer Summits;
Launch of the Smart Reentry Pilot aiming to serve 100 moderate to high risk transition aged youth (TAY) who are returning to East County after a period of incarceration;
Launch of the Innovation Fund and the establishment of the FAST START automotive training program to provide distance learning opportunities for individuals incarcerated in the County’s local jails and to provide post-release hands-on training at Fast Eddie’s automotive repair shop;
Launch of the Richmond Workforce Development Board’s 60-hour “Accelerating Careers through Essential Skills” (ACES) Academy to improve participants’ ability to attain and retain gainful employment through vocational training courses; and
Launch of the Central-East Ceasefire program seeking to reduce firearm violence through a focused deterrence model that uses law enforcement data to direct program resources to individuals at the highest risk of being perpetrators or victims of gun violence.

These initiatives have all been supported or leveraged by AB 109 funding.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

The FY 2017-18 AB 109 Annual Report will not be accepted as the official report of AB 109 activities for the year.