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Supervisors press for court and probation coordination after CHIN planning report; jail population spikes cited
Summary
Board members and Banner urged simultaneous judicial-system engagement to validate planning-study assumptions and identify diversion or probation strategies that could reduce bed demand before construction.
Supervisors on July 23 returned repeatedly to the county’s recent planning study (referred to in the meeting as the CHIN planning report) and asked staff and Banner to lead a coordinated effort with the courts, probation and other justice-system stakeholders to test the study’s assumptions and identify operational steps that could reduce jail population demand.
Supervisor Sebastian Gomez and other board members said the CHIN report contained recommendations — including diversion, probation and court-process changes — that, if implemented, could reduce the number of…
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