Score: +3
(4/3/1)
Santa Barbara County Grand Jury
• 2022-2023
Death on Electronic Monitored Home Release*
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Findings and Recommendations 3 findings
F1a
A list of mental health and addiction treatment program contacts was offered to NM upon his discharge to the Electronic Monitored Home Release program, but the Sheriff's Office did not monitor whether NM contacted or participated in any of those programs.
No recommendations for this finding
F1b
Beginning July 1, 2022, the Sheriff's Office transferred the Electronic Monitored Home Release program monitoring responsibility to the Santa Barbara County Probation Department.
No recommendations for this finding
F2
If the Sheriff's Office had known of NM's mental health history, it indicated it would have more closely monitored him to ensure meaningful participation in effective substance abuse and mental health clinical programs.
Related Recommendations (3)
R2
Requires further analysis, with analysis completion date of no more than six
R2a
That the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office and the Santa Barbara County Probation Department promptly request that Santa Barbara County Counsel prepare a legal opinion as to whether, consistent with Federal and California law, Wellpath or any successor may provide critical inmate mental health information to Sheriff's Office personnel who need to know that information for inmate housing, programing, and Electronic Monitored Home Release program decisions.
R2b
That if Santa Barbara County Counsel determines that Wellpath does have legal authority to provide inmate mental health information to Sheriff's Office personnel and Santa Barbara County Probation Department, then the County and the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office shall amend the existing agreement with Wellpath to require such sharing to the full extent of the law.
Additional Recommendations 2
These recommendations are not explicitly linked to specific findings.
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R3months after the issuance of the report; or Will not be implemented, with an explanation of why.
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R4Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors - 90 days
Conclusions 5
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CL1If the Sheriff's Office had known of NM's mental health history, it indicated it would have more closely monitored him to ensure meaningful participation in effective substance abuse and mental health clinical programs. <b>Recommendation 2a</b> That the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office and the Santa Barbara County Probation Department promptly request that Santa Barbara County Counsel prepare a legal opinion as to whether, consistent with Federal and California law, Wellpath or any successor may provide critical inmate mental health information to Sheriff's Office personnel who need to know that information for inmate housing, programing, and Electronic Monitored Home Release program decisions. <b>Recommendation 2b</b> That if Santa Barbara County Counsel determines that Wellpath does have legal authority to provide inmate mental health information to Sheriff's Office personnel and Santa Barbara County Probation Department, then the County and the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office shall amend the existing agreement with Wellpath to require such sharing to the full extent of the law. REQUEST FOR RESPONSE Pursuant to California Penal Code Section 933 and 933.05, the Santa Barbara County Grand Jury requests each entity or individual named below to respond to the enumerated findings and recommendations within the specified statutory time limit: Responses to Findings shall be either: Agree; Disagree wholly; or Disagree partially with an explanation. • Responses to Recommendations shall be one of the following: Has been implemented, with brief summary of implementation actions taken; Will be implemented, with an implementation schedule; • Requires further analysis, with analysis completion date of no more than six • months after the issuance of the report; or Will not be implemented, with an explanation of why. • Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors - 90 days Findings 2b
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CL2Responses to Recommendations shall be one of the following: Has been implemented, with brief summary of implementation actions taken; Will be implemented, with an implementation schedule;
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CL3Requires further analysis, with analysis completion date of no more than six
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CL4months after the issuance of the report; or Will not be implemented, with an explanation of why.
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CL5Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors - 90 days Findings 2b
Agency Responses 2
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* This report's PDF did not contain easily extractable text and required Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for analysis. There may be minor errors in the extracted findings and recommendations due to OCR limitations with scanned documents.