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Board accepts sheriff oversight report and keeps quarterly schedule pending online portal
Summary
The Contra Costa Board of Supervisors received the sheriff's quarterly oversight report on jail population, bookings, use-of-force and other metrics, voted to accept the report and to continue quarterly briefings for now while a public transparency portal is developed.
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors on May 13 accepted the sheriff's quarterly oversight report and voted to continue quarterly public briefings for the sheriff's office while county staff build an online transparency portal.
The report, delivered by Sheriff Livingston and staff, covered custody and field operations data for the first quarter of 2025, including booking trends, average daily jail populations, Narcan deployments, ICE notification requests, calls for service in unincorporated areas, and a rise in reports of staff being spat upon or hit with body fluids. Sheriff Livingston told the board several slides in the packet provide additional detail online and that a dedicated transparency portal, backed by newly budgeted data staff, should be available later this year to allow public searching of bookings,…
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