![]() ![]() Additionally, the Sheriff's Office Crime Lab is nationally accredited by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD). ![]() Together these form what is referred to as the "Triple Crown" of accreditation (ACA, NCCHC/CMA and CALEA) awarded by the National Sheriff's Association. Additionally, the agency's health care provider, California Forensic Medical Group, has dual accreditation through the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) and the California Medical Association (CMA). Steve Thomasberger: all other photos.The Alameda County Sheriff's Office is a full service law enforcement agency accredited through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) and the American Correctional Association (ACA). Share this newsletter with friends, neighbors, and fellow congregants or members of your faith community.ĭorsey Nunn: photo of congregation Starr King UUs (right), congregants from Mid and South County.Engage in the debate about the Alameda County budget let your representative on the Board of Supervisors know your concerns.*AB 544: improves access for those detained in county jails to exercise their rights to register to vote and vote. Such as *SB 809: would build on the Fair Chance Act (2017) to ensure that conviction history doesn’t prevent qualified candidates from employment. Columba Church, Oakland)įollow pending legislation in Sacramento , Send laborers to bring Your Spirit and Your truth and let the Word of God become real to them like never before. ![]() We pray for a revival in Santa Rita, where our loved ones are and ask that the love of you, our Creator, would permeate the atmosphere, break bondages and set people free. What can you/your congregation do to support the objectives voiced at the rally? We constantly reflect on the array of affordable housing and preventive behavioral health services that those funds could support in the community toward diverting individuals from entry into the county jail. Annually Santa Rita Jail costs Alameda County more than $345 million: that is more than $180,000 a year for each person incarcerated.Names of the 70 people known to have died since 2014 were read and held up as we marched and made noise so the prisoners inside could hear us.Many speakers spoke of personal history with Santa Rita and conditions for themselves as former prisoners and/or their family members.The Alameda County Board of Supervisors must order independent investigations of deaths in Santa Rita Jail, including the four in the first two months of 2023. One step in this direction requires that the Alameda County Board of Supervisors immediately fund more than $50 million of life-saving community mental health services they committed to last year, but they have failed to do so.Ĥ. The Board of Supervisors and municipal leaders must make the necessary investments in a system of care that diverts potential arrestees at the point-of-arrest (or as shortly thereafter as possible) from the criminal-legal system into medically appropriate treatment for mental illness, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders.ģ. All law enforcement agencies in Alameda County, including the Sheriff’s Office, must be provided with alternatives to county jail for people in need of preventive and other treatment services for mental health and substance abuse problems.Ģ. Margot Dashiel, East Bay Supportive Housing Collaborative.ġ. We are rallying to demand the supervisors address these human-caused crises with urgency.” “Alameda County’s increasingly uncoordinated and inadequate community-based mental health systems have resulted in deep racial inequities where severely ill and traumatized Black and Brown residents get funneled into a deadly jail. ![]() What needs to happen immediately? Patricia Contreras Flores Bruja Chingona and Kari Malkki, a healing justice organizer at Restore Oakland, singing and holding their hearts, facing the crowd of demonstrators on the plaza in front of Santa Rita Jail on April 1, 2023. Rally participants contemplate names of Santa Rita detainees who died in the last 10 years. Make significant investments in housing and community mental health services that would divert people from incarceration in the county jail.End the criminalization of substance use and mental illness.In partnership with the Care First Community Coalition (CFCC), the Interfaith Coalition for Justice in our Jails (ICJJ), member congregations, and CFCC partner organizations helped plan and organize a Care Not Deaths Noise Demonstration & Vigil at Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, CA, on Saturday, April 1, 2023. ![]()
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