County Administrative Office Manag Ement & Bu Dg Et Team County of Humboldt

The Humboldt Community Corrections Resource Center is not fully staffed by either the Humboldt County Probation Department or the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services. This understaffing is detrimental to the successful functioning of its programs. Recommendation # 1 is related to Measure Z, so Finding # 2 has no direct relationship to funding/staffing the Community Corrections Resource Center. The Resource Center is 100% funded with county AB 109funds. However, as described above, the hiring process and necessity of filling other department PO positions (not AB109 funded) do have some relationship to when positions in AB109 are able to be filled. Comments regarding impacts of understaffing are generally true, though as of this writing, all Probation Department positions inBU294 are filled and probation services are being provided at intended levels. DHHS will can respond about their staffing issues and service deficits. R.4. R e s p o n s e , with related Finding (F.3) :

The Humboldt County Community Corrections Resource Center does not have adequate and appropriate space to meet its programmatic n e e d s . Space is needed to accommodate all the services under one roof and to provide confidentiality for group and individual meetings. I a g r e e with this f i n d i n g . The CCRC facility is a leased building ina prime locationfor corrections purposes. The physicalplant was notdesignedfor thetypes or number of services that have ultimately beenrecommended to the Board by the CCP Executive Committee. When originally leased, the current complement of staffing and services was not,and could not have been, anticipated. The space within 404 H Street, Eureka was believed to be adequate for those staff and services that were preliminarily identified, and itwas assumed that the space/configuration could be modified ina number of ways to meet program/service needs. However, several unanticipated staff positions and services have been added since the determination and Board approval of our original local CCP plan. A full remodel of the building to perfectly meet all the needs of the current CCP planelements has been determinedto be cost prohibitive and too disruptive tothe existing program for a temporary lease situation (it would have required adding an elevator, bathrooms upstairs, moving stairstothe other endof the building-destroyingexistingoffices, etc.). Minor modifications have been made to the CCRC previously, and are also currently in the process of being made, to address confidentiality concerns of DHHS; Probation has absolutely no confidentiality concerns in this facility. Probation has also moved the Supervised Release Program to our 555 H Street, Eureka site to make room for the added treatment services, making the most of our available space in Adult Probation Services.

Offenders have not been prosecuted for improperly removing and discarding GPS monitoring devices at an approximate cost of $ l ,000 each. I a g r e e with thisf i n d i n g as related to cases prior to 2015. However, this is no longer the case. Most of these cases of property theft/destruction of GPS devices occurred under the reign of DA Gallegos. Little effort was evidenced regarding addressing these concerns from 2012 through 2014 despite consistent requests from Probation and the county's Pretrial Steering Committee for assistance. Since January 2015 when DA Flemingtook office, Probation has worked closely with the DA Office regarding these cases and several successful prosecutions have taken place, including one case that was recently placed on felony probation for a conviction for theft (for removing and losing one of the Department's GPS monitors). The Probation Department is not ina position to explain DA Office rules, policy andprotocolsaround prosecutingthesecases.

Having the Humboldt County Director of Health and Human Services as the only member of the Community Corrections Partnership to represent that department creates barriers to effective collaboration among staff from Social Services, Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drug Programs, and Employment Training. I wholly disagree with this findi ng because t s an naccurate statement on ts face. In fact, collaborati on between agencies and county departments inrelation to AB 109 has been well established since May 2011. Director Crandall was Board-appointed as the sole representative for those identified branches of DHHS sitting on the CCP Executive Committee in accordance with PC 1230.1. This administrative body has specific roles and responsibilities in relation to AB109 and local CCP plan implementation, primarily to make recommendations to the Board of Supervisors about specific local CCP Plan elements as well as proposed expenditures of county AB 109 funds in service of that Plan. The group is also tasked with oversight and monitoring of AB 109 programs/services and resulting outcomes, and providing accountability regarding expenditures of AB 109 funds as allocated by the Board through the county budget process. There is a second body, the general Community Corrections P a r t n e r s h i p (defined inPC 1230), whichincludes a broad group of agencies including the DHHS branches listed above, j u s t i c e partners, law enforcement, corrections,victim advocates and community-based service providers, among others. This group is intended to focus on the implementation side of AB 109 programs and services and has the role, by law, of making recommendationstoand advisingtheChief ProbationOfficer regardinga broadspectrum of adultcorrections concerns, includingAB 109programs andservices.The Chief Probation Officer, as chairofthe CCP Executive Committee, shares that input with the Executive body to inform their activities. Participation by administrators from Mental Health (which includesAlcoholandOther Drug Programs)andSocialServiceshasbeen consistentsincetheformationofthisgroup. EmploymentTraining,though not attending these monthly meetings, participates in multi-disciplinary team meetingswith CCRC staff on a regular basis and advises the Chief Probation Officer through other means. Barriers to effective collaboration exist in all j o i n t corrections-human services programs. Most of those barriers revolve around differences in the mandates (to investigate, arrest, hospitalize, etc.),statutory restrictions (information sharing and client confidentiality), the primary objectives of the agencies involved (public safety vs serving the needs of an individual),and f u n d i n g mechanism (limitations if serving MediCal only clients vs relatively unlimited service if directly and adequately funded through AB 109 funds, for instance). Agencies'internal decision-making processes and problems incommunication withtheir line levelstaff can also contribute significantly to disrupting effective collaboration. However,allagenciesinvolvedinAB 109programsandservicescontinue to work on a d d r e s s i n g all of these issues as they arise to maintain the highest levelof cooperation and collaboration possible. **Response not requested from Probation, however, Ibelieve I h a v e the most information to respond.