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Sheriff's Office recommending the Executive Committee discuss and approve additional Fiscal Year 2024/2025 budget considerations for El Dorado County's portion of a Transportation Application Development Fee to the Community Corrections Training, Planning, and Implementation budget in the amount of $4,367.
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In California, Prison Realignment (AB109) transitioned a large amount of incarceration responsibility from state prisons to local jails. As a result, county jail populations have changed and capacity limitations have incentivized the release of lower level offenders on supervised release or lower bail amounts. Unfortunately, failures to appear in court are not uncommon, resulting in bench warrants for the offender. When the subject of a bench warrant is re-arrested in another county, they are booked in that county jail. Once local charges are resolved or if the offender waives a local court appearance when they are informed of the out-of-county warrant, the county-to-county extradition process starts. The sheriff from the County that has the warrant has 5 days to pick up the prisoner and return them to the originating county. Statewide, on any given day, dozens of Sheriff transportation vans from all over the geographic areas of the state or moving north-south, east-west, to pick up prisoners from other jails. Along the way, they may be crossing paths while driving empty transport vehicles and missing opportunities to assist one another.
Over the years, and organically through relationship building, various deputy sheriffs have been able to call one another ask for, and do, “favors” to lessen their driving burden. In 2023, California State Sheriffs Association (CSSA) set out on a project to work with the tech industry and build a software solution that will leverage Artificial Intelligence, Communication, and data-sharing to build upon what some deputies have been able to do organically. The vision was to have a software solution that does the rout...
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