Hoping to additional its aim of overhauling the county’s justice system and finally closing Males’s Central Jail, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors moved ahead Tuesday with the creation of a division to centralize not too long ago enacted packages to develop alternate options to incarceration whereas increasing neighborhood companies to divert folks out of the jail system.
The board directed the county chief government to report again in 90 days with a corporation and staffing plan for the Justice, Care and Alternatives Division, which might develop into a centralized residence for varied packages created in the previous couple of years in assist of the county’s Care First, Jails Final initiative.
Supervisor Sheila Kuehl informed her colleagues that she was happy with the work finished during the last eight years to assist packages looking for alternate options to incarceration.
“But when we cease for a second of crucial reflection, we've to actually acknowledge that course of will not be the identical as progress,” Kuehl stated. “And what we want now could be progress, we want motion…. It’s time to make issues occur, and to try this, in my humble opinion, we've to enhance our county infrastructure.”
The requested plan will embody a blueprint for the actions of assorted packages that might be below the brand new company’s umbrella, together with the Alternate options to Incarceration Initiative, the Jail Closure Implementation Workforce and the Workplace of Grownup Packages, which can “centralize all prevention, pretrial and reentry companies for adults” and embody a unit to service “transition-age youth.”
County workers can even report again on points resembling the place the brand new company can be based mostly, an estimate on prices and a timeline for its implementation.
The board additionally requested a separate report on the deliberate July introduction of the Division of Youth Improvement and the way it will work at the side of the brand new Justice, Care and Alternatives Division. It additionally requested for a report on the event of a Justice Advisory Board.
In her movement calling for development in creating the brand new division, Kuehl hailed the work already finished by the county to start the method of revamping the justice system. However she stated extra steps are wanted earlier than the method can actually advance.
“Sadly, as this tough work has progressed, it has develop into clear that standing up packages and housing advisory our bodies by means of a number of departments has not built-in service supply to the extent wanted to realize true justice reform,” the movement states. “The system that's meant to serve probably the most weak turns into too cumbersome to ship the built-in, holistic companies that our county residents want. In the end, we find yourself with a department-driven and overly bureaucratic method to service supply as an alternative of a person-centric method.”
Kuehl wrote that the present organizational construction “has resulted in a fractured and siloed forms.”
“This board ought to set up an umbrella entity that braids collectively Care First, Jails Final service supply and advisory our bodies right into a cohesive group that's supported by a standard mission and an administrative assist construction that facilitates individual and equity-centric service supply,” her movement states.
Supervisor Kathryn Barger opposed the movement, saying she nonetheless had issues in regards to the framework being proposed for the brand new company. However the proposal earned assist from the opposite board members.
“That is the massive image, however I hope all of us are dedicated as effectively to creating certain we've the precise division head for this division, and the precise county workers to workers this division,” Supervisor Janice Hahn stated. “As a result of the very last thing I would like this division to be is official and have a bunch of pink tape that doesn't enable for our imaginative and prescient to proceed to assist and nurture these in L.A. County who will most profit by this division.”
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