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Supervisors forward $505,599 SB 678 probation grant to full Board to expand services for 18–25‑year‑olds
Summary
The committee forwarded an ordinance authorizing the Department of Adult Probation to retroactively accept and expend a $505,599 grant under Senate Bill 678 to improve supervision and services for 18–25‑year‑old probationers and to add one grant‑funded deputy probation officer.
The Budget & Finance Subcommittee on May 11 forwarded to the full Board an ordinance authorizing the Department of Adult Probation to retroactively accept and expend a $505,599 grant from the California Emergency Management Agency under Senate Bill 678.
Chief Adult Probation Officer Wendy Still told supervisors the SB 678 program (authored by Senator Leno) funds pilot efforts under the California Community Corrections Performance Incentive Act to implement evidence‑based supervision practices, case management and training for high‑risk probationers aged 18–25. "This ordinance will allow us to accept a grant, which I'm pleased to report, of $505,599 which will allow us to improve caseload supervision standards for the highest at‑risk group," Still said, adding roughly $190,000 is budgeted for direct services to probationers and the grant will fund one grant‑funded deputy probation officer position (class 84‑44).
Still said the program will partner with the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF) and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development to augment existing contracts and provide services where gaps appear. She described a plan to conduct risk‑and‑needs assessments while people are incarcerated, link them to services and develop individual treatment and rehabilitation plans prior to release.
Public commenters urged more transportation and reentry supports and called for empirical data on outcomes. Still acknowledged the grant is a pilot and said the city plans to begin with roughly 667 probationers in general supervision units and to work with the sheriff's office on in‑custody assessments. The committee forwarded the ordinance to the full Board without objection.
