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Probation Department recommending the Board:
1) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign Amendment IV to Agreement for Services 4371 with SCRAM of California, for the Electronic Monitoring Program (home detention as a custody alternative) to increase the amount of the contract by $50,000 for a total not to exceed amount of $1,650,000 and to update the contract term to extend through May 31, 2023; and
2) Authorize the Chief Probation Officer and Deputy Chief Probation Officer to execute further documents relating to Agreement for Services 4371, including amendments which do not increase the maximum dollar amount or term of the Agreement, and contingent upon approval by County Counsel and Risk Management.
FUNDING: Public Safety Realignment (AB 109) (65%); Pretrial (20%); Substance Abuse Focus Grant (10%); and Juvenile Probation Funding (5%).
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
On April 4, 2011, then-Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill (AB) 109, referred to as 2011 Public Safety Realignment. AB 109 was later modified by AB 117. These bills reduced the number of offenders eligible for incarceration in state prison, and "realigned" the offenders to local entities, who became responsible for management of the offenders.
The Probation Department (Probation) has been continuously operating the Electronic Monitoring Program (EMP) since 2006 to provide home detention services as a custody alternative for appropriate offenders. SCRAM is the current contractor that provides EMP services for Probation.
Probation’s Agreement 4371 with SCRAM currently expires on April 30, 2023. SCRAM uses the NASPO (National Association of State Procurement Officials) ValuePoint Cooperative Purchasing Organization Master Agreement #00212, which expires on May 31, 2023. Probation is extending the current SCRAM contract term to expire concurrently with the NASPO contract.
Not-to-exceed amount of Agreement 4371 is being increased by $50,000 to ensure there will be enough fundi...
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