Nevada County Holding Facility Truckee Courthouse

The current conditions at the Joseph Center are believed to pose an imminent threat of serious injury to the public, courthouse employees and county employees. Disagree Due to past experience, we do not feel an imminent threat of serious injury to the public, courthouse employees, and/or county employees exists. We have had an excellent record with our transport of prisoners from transportation units to the Courthouse in Truckee with no threats, escapes or injuries. We are committed to mitigating risk at every opportunity within the County's existing resources. Inmates are transported from the transportation unit to the Courthouse in customary restraints, including leg shackles and waist shackles.

Safety improvements identified by the county and AOC have not been approved and/or funded by the AOe. Partially agree. Several improvement requests havc been approved and funded by the AOe. These include tinting or exterior windows, installing obstacles to preve nt running a vehicle into sensitive areas ol'the building and installation of bullet resistant windows. There are other requests awaiting approval and funding, howe ver, they are still in the approval process.

Proposed safety improvement would enhance the safety of the public and COUlt and county employees . Ag ree. FiA The 80S and the Court have not provided leadership in urging the AOC to release the neceSS<lry funds to improve the safety at the Joseph Center. Ui sag ree. The Court has made seve ral attempts to gain approval of our requests for safety improvcments at the Joseph Center. We regularly follow up on these requests and provide additional information as necessary to establish an appropriate priority for funding. The plain fact is that funding across the State is too little to meet all security needs in all courthouses. The Grand Jury's assumpt ion that this is a shortfall in leadership on the part of the 80S and COLilt completely lacks foundation. Recommendations R. l The Nevada County Board of Supervisors, the Nevada County Sheriffs Office, the Administrati ve Office of the COLlItS and the Nevada County Superior Court should take all the measures necesSAry to move forwArd with a formal agreement which provides the recommended S8fety improvements immediately to ensure the safety of the public and employees. Partially implemented. The Court has taken all appropriate steps to secure funding for the identif'ied security improvements. The recommendation that this effort should be pushed forward at all cost clearly fails to consider the statewide limitations on funding and competing priorities - not the least of which is simply providing sufficient staffing of court operations to prov ide basic access to justice foral!. R. The Nevada County Board of Supervisors, the Nevada Coun ty Sheriffs Office, the Administrative Office of the Courts and the Nevada County Superior Court staff' should prioritize funciing requ ests to implement the recommended safety improvements. Partially implemented. We have prioritized our security requests and submitted them to the State for consideration 8nd funding. The State considers requests from all jurisdictions and establishes statewide priorities. We do not control that process.

The BOS and the Court have not provided leadership in urging the AOC to release the necessary funds to improve the safety at the Joseph Center. Disagree Our experience has been that both the BOS and the Court provide leadership and are prudent in prioritizing funding requests to the AOC.