Following two community listening sessions, the San Diego Association of Governments is preparing to present a report on ways to keep county jail incarceration levels for low-level offenders at a minimum
If Dion Caporrimo had not looked over at the right time, he might have missed the flier posted on the wall of a San Diego County lock-up mentioning housing services for people getting out of jail.
SANDAG, the regional planning agency, which has a criminal-justice research arm, was hired by the county to pull together a study — which is scheduled to go before the Board of Supervisors on Feb. 28 — that has four key objectives: Researchers looked at law enforcement contacts during the pandemic and found that around 75 percent of roughly 20,000 people studied could be candidates for diversion programs. They either committed low-level crimes — such as narcotics possession or so-called quality-of-life crimes, like being drunk in public, trolley fare violation or illegal lodging — or were placed on a 72-hour mental health hold.
“It would be a good idea to ensure that everyone inside gets a handout of some sort of that lists all programs and services,” he said. “Programs and services are great, but if people don’t know they’re there, they’ve really failed.”
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