Safety and Justice Challenge: An Effort to Reduce the Jail Population Presentation to the Criminal Justice Committee of City Council April 5, 2017

Orleans Parish Jail Population 2011 to Present

Orleans Parish Jail Population 2015 to Present ADP = 1,477

Safety and Justice Challenge Population Target -21%

Strategy 1: Reduce admissions for individuals charged with low-level offenses and individuals with patterns of high reentry into the criminal justice system due to behavioral health needs Deflect individuals with mental illness and substance use disorder from arrest Amend NOPD’s summons policy to remove restrictions based on criminal history Reduce arrests for individuals booked on only an out-of-parish warrant

PROGRESS NEXT STEPS Seattle site visit (LEAD program) Selected pilot district Secured add’l funding from multiple sources ($328,000) Revised summons policy submitted to DOJ Roundtable with NOPD officers re: out-of-parish arrests NEXT STEPS Conduct focus groups with police officers and impacted individuals (this month) Complete behavioral health system map Partner agencies make policy decisions

Strategy 2: Reduce the average length of stay of lower-risk felony defendants during the pretrial stage by focusing resources on risk-based release decisions Implement Arnold Foundation’s Public Safety Assessment (PSA) Model Dedicate Public Defenders to First Appearance Institutionalize Bond Review Hearings Increase the use of “release on recognizance” at bond hearings

PROGRESS NEXT STEPS Selected to implement PSA Model MOU approved by City Council OPD hired 2 public defenders and a client advocate dedicated to bond hearings Related: transitioned Pretrial Services to Supreme Court/ Criminal District Court NEXT STEPS Create plan to implement PSA Model and Release Decision Framework (re: ROR) Establish protocol for docketing bond review hearings

Strategy 3: Reduce average length of stay of felony defendants by reducing system inefficiencies Hire a Justice System Administrator “jail facilitator” Expedite arrest to arraignment for victimless crimes Docket arrests on capias within 48 hours Expand implementation of aiSmartBench in Criminal District Court and Municipal Court

PROGRESS NEXT STEPS Hired Justice System Administrator aiSmartBench implementing in Municipal Court Implemented new policies to docket arrests on capias Reduced arrest to arraignment time to 36 days from 44 days (18%) NEXT STEPS Justice System Administrator to start in May Implement aiSmartBench in up to 4 CDC courtrooms Continue to identify system inefficiencies and bring to Jail Population Management (JPM) Subcommittee

Strategy 4: Reduce admissions and length of stay for alleged probation and parole violators by encouraging officer and judicial discretion in using detention Increase use of administrative sanctions rather than revocation for technical violations Improve probation and parole violation process Decrease the impact of detainers on probation defendants

PROGRESS CDC approved administrative sanctions to be used in all probation cases 10-day detention hearings will occur in one courtroom NEXT STEPS CDC to approve 10-day detention hearings in all courtrooms Probation and Parole will select detention criteria for defendants awaiting a violation hearing

Strategy 5: Reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system Receive technical assistance from Burns Institute to review racial bias within each of the bodies of work Implicit bias training Improve the capacity of the Jail Management System to capture ethnicity data

PROGRESS Site visit from Burns Institute with JPM Subcommittee Reviewing racial disparity data at several decision points NEXT STEPS JPM Subcommittee will select an existing SJC strategy & develop a plan to reduce disparity within that strategy Ongoing TA from Burns Institute OPSO to replace its Jail Management System

Strategy 6: Regularly monitor progress according to pre-defined benchmarks and use those data to optimize strategies as needed Implement JailSTAT within Jail Population Management Subcommittee Develop a community engagement strategy and launch a Community Advisory Group

PROGRESS Starting in 2017, JPM Subcommittee meeting structure includes a JailSTAT component Community members have convened 4 times to develop community engagement strategy and review progress on the Challenge Selected a facilitator for Community Advisory Group NEXT STEPS Release application for Community Advisory Group and select membership

Strategy 7: Reduce admissions for warrants by decreasing failure to appear (FTA) rates in Criminal District Court and Municipal Court Implement an indigency assessment at sentencing to scale discretionary fees and fines based on ability to pay Implement court date notification/reminder system Redesign language on summons forms to clarify time, date and location of court appearances, and to clarify a summons is an arrest

PROGRESS Designed workflow that will integrate multiple data sources to text defendants in CDC Created proposed matrix to scale fines and fees based on ability to pay NOPD improved language on its summons form for readability and clarity of consequences NEXT STEPS Develop court date notification system in Criminal District Court and pursue solution in Municipal Court Pilot indigency assessment in one CDC courtroom before expanding to other courts NOPD to launch e-citations, including revised summons form

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