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Board seeks data on electronic monitoring and violations as juvenile placements rise
Summary
Members asked staff for counts and violation details for youth on electronic monitoring after members noted the number of juveniles in custody had roughly doubled over the past year; staff said some data exist but comprehensive, recent reports must be compiled.
Several members raised concerns about the rising numbers of youths in custody and asked for detailed data on electronic monitoring usage and violations.
A board member noted the number of youth in custody had nearly doubled over the past year and asked whether the county tracks how many youth are on GPS monitoring or house arrest. Chris Welsh and Danielle DeMateo said they did not have offhand figures during the meeting and that Director DeMateo would be the source for that data; Welsh said he had not personally seen a consolidated dataset and that staff would pull it together.
Board members asked for disaggregated violation data — for example, whether violations were technical (leaving a curfew) or criminal (new charges) — and for analysis tying assessment recommendations to downstream outcomes (when an assessment recommended detention but the youth was not held, did adverse events occur?). Staff agreed to assemble those data for future board review.
