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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes January 31, 2013fT. LUCIE COUNTY PUBLIC fAFETY COORDINA'i1NG COUNCIL January 31, 2013 3:30 p.m. fi. LUCIE COUNiY ADMINIfiRAiION ANNEX BOARD OF COUNiY COMMIff10NERf CONFERENCE ROOM 3 1. Cail to Order -Chairman Tod Mowery Z. Roli Call 3. Approval of Minutes- October s5, Zo1Z Meeting 4. fheriff'f Office Update -Inmate Medical upon Release Major Tighe S. Update by Criminal Justice Coordinator- Marb Godwin 6. Judicial Update- Chief Judge Levin 7. Old Business s. New Business: 9. Adjournment Members: Suzanne Caudell Janet Collins State Attorney Bruce Colton Commissioner Tod Mowery Public Defender Diamond Litty Justine Patterson Sheriff Ken Mascara Chief Judge Levin John Romano Major Pat Tighe Judge Philip Vacucci St. Lucie County Criminal Justice System Yearly PopulationBooking Summaty 2009 ® 2010 ® 2011 ~ ® 2012 1450 Average Monthly Population 1350 Excluding Federal Inmates 1250 1205 07 220 212 75 1~ ®9171 1172 1150 1~ 13fr7 1160 ,~ 068 1086 X1095 1050 950 -r,~ Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 1ul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1600 2009 2010 2011 ® - ® 2012 1400 1200 Monthly Bookings ~ 051 1000 °9 1016 1 QO®°® ~3G 18 ®®® ° 800 °~66 66 971 90 ~ 1~. 779 600 4ao zoo 0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Vearly Tdal9aoYmg Summery (~,i.. Total Baokings 75572 reanyaverageoanr coomecon sammery.sxuumng Feanennmec ~3 Avg Daily Population Treasure Coast Crisis Intervention Team Training. February 25-March 1, 2012 Indian River State College Public Safety Building 't'his training is open to all Law Enforcement Agencies, Department of Corrections, Department of juvenile Justice, Pre-trail Officers, Probation Officers, and Cormnunication/911 Persamiel. The Treasure Coast Crisis Intertrention Team (CIT) provides aforty-hour crisis intervention training izr lndiarr River, Martin and St. Lucie Counties..The trauiuig is designed for ]aw enforcement, corrections, and dispatch staff. It provides an increased knowledge about: 0 Mental iIlness 0 Substance abuse 0 Mental retardation 0 Alzheimer's 0 Veteran's issues 0 Mental health court 0 Local resources and contacts Participants are trained in verbal de-escalation shills to aid in positive outcomes when law enforcement encounters a person in crisis. If you would Iike to attend, please complete this form and email to: cbn~cefa,eeocarein. com. Name• Title: 1?epartment• Contact number: The primary goal of CfT is to have specially trained law enforcement officers to respond to individuals with a mental health crisis while ensuring safety for all. PUBLIC fAFE1'Y COORDINAi'ING COUNCIL Minutes of Meeting January 31, 2013 t._.._~~__~ _..~~,m~=~.m ~.,,.,,.,. ...._.,,,. ~..~..,..~~.~,. Convened 3:36 p.m. Adjournede 4:30 p.m. CALLiO ORDER Commissioner Mowery called the meeting to order at 3:36 p.m. in Conference Room # 3, 2300 Virginia Avenue, Fort Pierce, Florida. ROLL CALL Roll call was taken. Members Present: Membert Abtent~ Others Pretent~ Bruce Colton, State Attorney Commissioner Tod Mowery Chief Judge Steve Levin,l9t" Circuit Justine Patterson, Florida Department of Corrections Suzanne Caudell, CORE Program Major Pat Tighe, SLSO Diamond Litty, Public Defender Janet Collins, Bail Association John Romano, New Horizons Judge Philip 1. Yacucci,l9t" Circuit Ken Mascara, Sheriff of SLC Bryant Culpepper, Commissioner, Okeechobee BOCC Mark Godwin, SLC Criminal justice Coordinator Robbie Chartier, Okeechobee BOCC Noel Stephen, Under Sheriff OC 50 Kevin Housel, DJJ Ethel Rowland, Taxpayer Broderick Underwood, C115 Analyst Allison Duffy, SLC Drug Lab Lisa Savage, SLC Pretrial Program Chris Harris, Magellan Health lack Miller, Magellan Health Trevor Morganti, SL SO Michael Goforth, Scripps Newspapers APPROVAL OF MINUiEf~ The minutes from October 25, 2012 were unanimously approved. Publie fafeiby Coordinating Council January 3f, Z013 Page 2 UPDATE by fLC fherriff~l Offiee- Major Tighe on behalf of fheriff Matcara~ Major Tighe announced an agreement that was made with the Martin County Jail to help feed their inmates while restorations were made to their kitchen. Martin County supplied the food by their provider and transportation of it. St. Lucie jail has provided 6,049 meals per day from their kitchen since January 21't and will conclude services on February 21st 2013. Commissioner Mowery remarked about the success of our Culinary Program that was developed at the jail to help reduce the recidivism rate. Our recidivism rate is about seven percent and the state average is thirty three percent. The program has saved the County money by not having individuals come back into the system. Major Tighe brought a Crisis Intervention Team Training (CIT) form for those agencies around the table who would like to provide it to their staff. There are five hundred law enforcement officers on the Treasure Coast who have received training. He reported violence in the jail has gone down seventy-five percent as a result of the training. Major Tighe spoke on the topic, inmate medical upon release. Due to technical difficulties the audio he brought could not be heard. He turned everyone's attention to a handout, "Nation's Jails Struggle with Mentally 111 Prisoners" by NPR STAFF. Please see attached. He read in Miami-Dade County, researchers over afive-year period tracked ninety-seven individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia. They found those individuals were arrested almost two thousand two hundred times and spent twenty-seven thousand days in the Miami-Dade Jail. It cost those tax payers thirteen million dollars. St. Lucie County has seen this cycle as well. Major Tighe went over some contributing factors to the cycle. If a person is in jail guilty or innocent, Medicaid is discontinued. A mentally ill individual continues receiving their meds while in jail. Upon release the doctor at the jail will supply medication for three days and then the individual is instructed to follow up with the community health provider. Major Tighe explained that some folks are non-compliant and most have to get Medicaid reinstated which can take up to ninety days. The wait to see a doctor can be up to four weeks. Mr. Romano, CEO of New Horizons, agreed and added that is when individuals get back into the cycle and self-medicate with alcohol or drugs. Mr. Romano stated that a large part of the problem is funding on the state level for indigent individuals. There have been large budget cuts over the years and some programs that helped were diminished. Chris Harris from Magellan Health spoke about some states suspending Medicaid rather than it be terminated so there would not be a disruption to an individual's funding source. Major Tighe went over the statistical reports: St. Lucie County Jail Average Daily Inmate Population Years 2007 to 2012 which included stats on Mental Health (See attached). He reported the inmate population at 1233 with 67 of them US Marshals. Commissioner Mowery discussed looking into and possibly joining Representative Harrell's efforts to work on the Medicaid issues for the individuals affected. Public fafety Coordinating Council January 3f, 2013 Page 3 UPDATE by Criminal Justiee Coordinator- Mark Godwin Mr. Godwin went over the Monthly Population report. Mr. Godwin mentioned concern over the Legislation budget request in regards to the Department of Corrections pushing to mandate County jails to house inmates that should be in the State Prison system. He indicated that he will monitor how it unfolds. The group was updated on the community service work that is a circuit wide program for the St. Lucie County Landfill. The director of the landfill informed Mr. Godwin, for every community service worker sentenced to the program; it saves the landfill one hundred dollars per day. Mr. Godwin reported the Pretrial Program's numbers have gone up fifty percent since last year. Lisa Savage, Pretrial Manager indicated that the numbers could be up due to the County running the program for five years now and many are familiar with what they offer. Allison Duffy, St. Lucie County Drug Lab Manager provided Mark with testing statistics. Since October (the start of our fiscal year) the Lab has conducted over 7,500 tests. Mr. Godwin also reported the County's effort to collect fifty dollars a day for the cost of incarceration for individuals who are sentenced to the county jail. This is under Section 960.293 of the Florida Statue. He reported to date over one million dollars has been ordered. It will take time to collect the statistics to see how much revenue will be generated over the next fiscal year. JUDICIAL UPDATE- Chief Judge Levin Chief Judge Levin briefly went over Judge Assignments as of January 74, 2013. He was thankful for Mark Godwin efforts to make it possible to utilize the Landfill to assign community service. He sends individuals from Juvenile Drug Court and the Landfill provides evaluations on their attitudes and if they would hire them and sixty-seven percent said yes. Chief Judge has also sent juveniles and adults from Martin County as well to the St. Lucie County Landfill, and he hopes to get Indian River County involved as well. Chief judge Levin thanked all agencies around the table that are part of the Drug Court team. He thanked Allison Duffy, Drug Lab Manager for being available whenever he sends people for testing. Spice and five day back tests for alcohol are still being ordered and is still a problem. Chief Judge Levin also complimented Diamond Litty, Public Defender's Life Builders Program. The program provides assistance for individuals that have proven their on the right path and successfully completed a specialty court program. Chief Judge Levin announced that there is an internal election nearing for the County's Chief Judge, he and two other judges are involved. 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P ~ 0 N tb~ tCD ~ ~ n• O OQ y a N w p, ~ N M ro M ` Nation's Jails Struggle With Mentally Ill Prisoners : NPl2 Page l of 4 Nation's Jails Struggle With 1Vlentally Ill Prisoners by NPR STAFF September 04, 2011 2:53 PM Listen to the Story All Things Considered 71 min t2 sec Bebeto MattheWS/AP Three hundred and fifty thousand: That's a conservative estimate for the number of offenders with mental illness confined in America's prisons and jails. Mare Amoricans receive mental health treatment in prisons and jails than in hospitals or treatment centers. In fact, the three largest inpatient psychiatric facilities in the country are jails: Los Angeles County Jail, Bikers Island Jail in New York City and Cook County Jaii in Illinois. "We have a criminal Justice system which has a very clear purpose: You get arrested. We want justice. We try you, and justice hopefully http://www.npr.org/2011/09/01/140167676/nations-jails-struggle-with-mentally-ill-prisoners 1/28/2013 Nation's Jails Shvggle With Mentally Ill Prisoners :NPR prevails. It was never built to handle people that were very, very ill, at least with mental illness," Judge Steve Leifman tells Laura Sullivan, guest host of weekends on A/I Things Considered. A failing system When the government began closing state-run hospitals in the 1980s, people with mental illness had nowhere to turn; many ended up in jail. Leifman saw the problem first-hand decades ago in the courtroom. When individuals suffering from mental illness came before him accused of petty crimes, he didn't have many options. See A Slideshow Of "What we used to do, which I tell people was the Mental Institutions At The definition of insanity [...] was they would commit an Picture Show Blog offense, the police would arrest them, they'd come io court, they'd be acting out so we would order two or three psychological evaluations at great expense, we would determine that they were incompetent to 4cna=one, Y stand trial and we'd re-rolease them back to the Payne community and kind of held our breath and crossed our fingers and hoped that somehow they'd get better and came back and we could try them," he says. Instead, many disappeared and got re-arrested. Sometimes within minutes. "They'd walk out the door, they were ill, they'd act out, because [the jail] is next to the courthouse there are several officers out there, and they'd get re-arrested," he says. Not only was the system inefficient, it was costly as well. When Leifman asked the University of South Florida to Look at who the highest users of criminal justice and mental health services in Miami -Dade County, researchers found the prime users were 97 people, individuals diagnosed primarily with schizophrenia. "Over afive-year period, these 97 individuals were arrested almost 2,200 times and spent 27,000 days in the Miami-Dade Jail," Leifman says. "It cost the tax payers $13 million." A look Inside One Jail Page 2 of 4 http://www.npr.org/20 1 1/09/04/1 40 1 676 76/nations jails-struggle-with-mentally-ill-prisoners 1(28/2013 Nation's Jails Struggle With 1Vlentally Ill Prisoners :NPR Sheriff Greg Hamilton of Travis County in Austin, Texas, also sees the flaws in the system. "It seems to me that we have criminalized being mentally ill," Hamilton tells Sullivan. Hamilton has been the Sheriff of Travis County for seven years. In chat time, he's seen more and more mentally ill people filter into his jail. He says the lack of space at the local hospitals means his jail has become the default treatment center. He says the average stay of a mentally ill person in a Travis jail is about 50-100 days. But Hamilton says the longest term he's seen was 258 days. Hamilton's jail only has a handful of counselors on staff to deal with the 400 inmates they house daily. The individuals who do get stabilized find it hard to get their medication replenished or see a psychiatrist once they leave the jail, It's a broken system, but Hamilton notes that this was never the way the mentally ill were suppose to be treated. "The jail was Hover meant to be a state hospital or a treatment facility," he says, "but we have been thrown out there and we've got to take the hand that we were dealt." Reforming the system Judge Leifman is crying to prevent individuals with mental illnesses who have committed minor crimes from ending up in jail. He's creating a novel facility in Miami-pade that will serve as what's known as a "forensic diversion facility:' The program provides a sentencing alternative in cases where the offender has mental health issues. Those entering will begin in a higher-security.area, more like ajail, and once stabilized 'move to a different part of the building for treatment. Page 3 of 4 http:1/www.npr.org/2011/04/04/140167676/nations jails-struggle-with-mentally-ill-prisoners 1/28!2013 Courtesy 0/the Tsd NS County Shenlik Office Courtesy ofJWBO ~oi/man Nation's Jails Struggle With Mentally Ill Prisoners :NPR "They'll continue to step down until they're actually ready to go back to the community," Lelfman says. The facility will be run on a "clubhouse model," meaning peaple with mental illnesses will take an active role in planning activities. Lelfman acknowledges the facility won't keop everyone with mental illness out of jails, but says "if we can keep 50 percent of the people who are coming into ourjail out who have serious mental illness we've made a huge dent in the problem. Share 198 Comments 02012 NPR Page 4 of 4 http://www.npr.org/2 0 1 1/09/04/1 40 1 67676/nations-jails-struggle-with-mentally-ill-prisoners 1/28/2013