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Timeline for implementing additional staff training and support
1:52:39
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Council Member Stevens presses DOC officials on the timeline for implementing additional training and support for staff. The exchange reveals a lack of concrete plans and timelines from DOC leadership.
- Stevens repeatedly asks for specific timelines and details about planned improvements
- DOC Commissioner struggles to provide concrete answers, stating it's of 'extreme importance' but offering no specific timeline
- Stevens expresses frustration with the lack of urgency and concrete plans
- The exchange highlights the tension between the council's oversight role and DOC's lack of clear implementation plans
Althea Stevens
1:52:39
So even before we started over, I have some more questions.
1:52:41
What's the timeline on because I said you said you were looking to assist even before you became commissioner.
1:52:45
So what's the timeline?
1:52:46
On getting these things that you say that they need additional trainings, implement it.
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
1:52:51
It's as soon as possible.
Althea Stevens
1:52:54
So then what does that mean?
1:52:55
Because you've been here how long?
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
1:52:57
10 months as long as
Althea Stevens
1:52:59
So then as soon as possible.
1:53:00
What does that look like in your timeline?
1:53:01
Like, I I'm asking for, like, concrete, like, time.
1:53:03
So you think, like, in the next 3 months, 4 months, another year, like, what when and, like, ideally, what would that look like for you?
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
1:53:11
Actually, in the coming months, I hope by the beginning of the year, we'll have something solidify trust me when I tell you this is of extreme importance for me.
Althea Stevens
1:53:19
I don't I'm not doubting that as of extreme importance.
1:53:22
I'm just trying to get to the place of, like, what are these timelines so we can hold you accountable.
1:53:27
So when you're being lucid as if saying, like, oh, in a few months and this, when we come back to you, you can still be like, well,
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
1:53:32
we're still working.
1:53:33
I don't need to be held accountable.
1:53:34
I'm gonna
Althea Stevens
1:53:35
Actually, no.
1:53:36
Actually, you do because our job is to hold you accountable.
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
1:53:38
No.
1:53:38
But I'm telling you that this is of extreme importance for the department and for me personally.
1:53:43
And we're going to do it.
1:53:44
I'm happy to share the information once we've solidified it and provide it to you, but it is of extreme importance that the staff feel safe and that there's holistic safety throughout our jails.
Althea Stevens
1:53:57
Again, it is our job as so, and we could look it up in the charter to have oversight and hold the agencies accountable.
1:54:04
And so that is why I'm asking for more concrete lines and not just saying in a few months and being boosted
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
1:54:10
to because
Althea Stevens
1:54:10
and you can't tell me that like, oh, it is of extreme importance.
1:54:13
Because if it was extreme importance, and I was in a hearing.
1:54:16
I will have a timeline now, but it came with a timeline like, this is what I'm looking to implement in the next 6 months.
1:54:21
This is what I'm looking to implement in the next year and not come and tell me that it is of extreme importance and I'm gonna do it.
1:54:27
Because I would have came in ready for the work.
1:54:30
And we could have had more of a strategy conversation about how we work together.
1:54:34
That's why I'm asking.
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
1:54:35
We could still have a strategy conversation.
Althea Stevens
1:54:37
Being lucid about it.
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
1:54:38
No.
1:54:38
No.
1:54:38
No.
1:54:38
I can think one of
Althea Stevens
1:54:39
my questions.
1:54:39
So I know you wanted to turn it over to
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
1:54:41
him because doctor John and has been working directly with the executive director of the care unit on this training.
1:54:46
That's why that's why I'm turning it over to him.