Specifications include, but are not limited to: data and service analysis and recommendations related to protecting public safety, improving and expanding rehabilitative treatment and services, and advancing equity through alternatives to incarceration. The County seeks a data-driven approach to identifying the primary policy drivers of reduced incarceration rates during the period of the COVID-19 global pandemic. The County seeks a data review to include analyses of jail population changes and public safety outcomes related to the jail population changes during this period. This will include population sub-analysis by demographics and geography. In additional to analysis of the public safety outcomes of the identified policy changes, the County seeks a review of best practices supported by evidence and related recommendations to safely and permanently reduce jail populations through improving the availability of rehabilitative treatment and services that support individuals and protect public safety as alternatives to incarceration. The County seeks a comprehensive fiscal analysis to identify costs or savings related to the service recommendations over 1- year, 5-year, 10-year and 20-year time frames.
