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Collaboration with sheriff's department and cost estimates for electronic monitoring
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The discussion shifts to the Department of Probation's collaboration with the sheriff's department on electronic monitoring and the estimated costs for implementing a new system. Commissioner Holmes and Chief Information Officer Razwan Mirza provide details on the current setup and future plans.
- Holmes explains that the sheriff's department currently handles the actual monitoring
- Mirza estimates the cost for a new electronic monitoring system to be between $8-9 million
- The estimate includes staffing for a separate division to handle electronic monitoring
- Mirza emphasizes that electronic monitoring is scientifically proven to increase the quality of service provided by probation officers
Juanita Holmes
1:07:58
So I have no idea.
1:07:59
I know we have 19 individuals on probation that are on electronic monitoring and what that requires, that requires us to collaborate with the sheriff department, right, because the sheriff department does the actual monitoring.
1:08:12
They have the screens.
1:08:14
They have the equipment.
1:08:15
So we should be confirmed with the sheriff department on a weekly basis, putting in our case, spoke with them, what are you seeing?
1:08:21
Sheriff department would have to be familiar with their curfew times when we could simply have it under one umbrella.
1:08:27
Okay.
1:08:27
Have it under one umbrella, DOP, and we monitor it ourselves.
Althea Stevens
1:08:31
And you said this was done during COVID.
Juanita Holmes
1:08:32
Correct?
1:08:33
It sure was.
Althea Stevens
1:08:33
Do you know what the price point is for that?
1:08:35
What the what was?
1:08:36
The price point.
1:08:37
Oh, what
Meg Egan
1:08:37
was the
Razwan Mirza
1:08:37
price?
1:08:37
So I don't know what the price at that time was, but we know what's going to be now, actually.
Althea Stevens
1:08:41
Well, do you have that?
Razwan Mirza
1:08:41
We'll have that.
1:08:42
It's going to about 8,000,000 to $9,000,000 actually.
Althea Stevens
1:08:45
$8.9000000 dollars
Razwan Mirza
1:08:45
That's what we're estimating.
1:08:47
That includes actually the bodies we need and a separate division we need.
1:08:50
I just wanted to mention one more thing.
1:08:52
The quality of service that our officer is going to provide will tremendously increase with these electronic monitoring.
1:08:58
Actually.
1:08:58
So it's proven, scientifically proven data that actually backs up to this investment.