Recommendation to receive and file an update on the Justice Lab progress and accomplishments.  (Citywide)
Next item, I believe is 35. We can we can hold that item until she comes back. Let's move to item number 36. Item 36 is a report from police. Recommendation to receive and file an update on the just our progress and accomplishments citywide. It's been moved by Councilmember Price and seconded by Pierce. Would you like to speak to the motion? Part. Great staff report, please. Yes. This tricycle uncle will give us a quick intro and I think there's. A brief PowerPoint or slideshow. Great honorable mayor and city council. Good evening. Just a quick recap. In January 2017, the mayor and city manager asked the Long Beach Innovation Team to work with the police department on the public safety priority. From that yearlong research process in January 2018, the city launched a first of its kind justice lab to provide new tools to city staff to deliver individuals out of the criminal justice system and toward treatment care and other resources. We've developed a justice lab video that we're premiering tonight. We're encouraging the community to share this at community events, community meetings, committees, commissions, and on social media. How can data be used to improve public safety and help residents stay out of prison? This was the question that launched a new collaboration between the city's innovation team and the Long Beach public safety continuum, which consists of police, fire, health and other organizations throughout the county. The Justice Lab is a strategy that the city of Long Beach, too, developed to focus on the top 5% of repeat offenders. When we cite or arrest them and we pull their criminal histories. They've been arrested ten, 12, sometimes 17 or 18 times. So these are the same people that are being arrested and cited, are also being transported to the hospital. And we're having interactions with the fire department. They're not the ones committing the violent crimes. They're not the ones that are committing the high level property thefts. They're really the folks who often in fact, half of them are homeless. They're intersecting with our various city departments. But historically, those departments hadn't connected the dots that we're all seeing that same person in our different outreach efforts, if you will. This is the first time a robust and comprehensive data sharing platform has been created where all the involved partners and departments can input and access information. So the more that we can connect them to service, the less likely they are to end up back in jail and about on our streets. Currently, the justice lab has launched three key initiatives. Each is designed to intervene at points where low level offenders interact with city services. First, the jail, where a clinician first offers help. I have had the opportunity to meet with approximately 400. People who are open to getting help and so really is planting that seed of hope. And letting them know. That once they're out there, we have a plan. Another key point of intervention is the actual courtroom where, again, individuals who committed low level crimes are offered alternatives to time in jail. Instead of seeing that case come out with jail or incarceration. It's not solving the problem. So we need to look at what approach will keep that person off the street and in some kind of treatment. You're going to have better results for the individual and you're going to have safer streets where those people are not on the streets. So committing crimes again. Lastly, both the police and fire departments have active outreach teams who are often the first to connect with low level offenders. This data driven approach allows us to focus on specific people who are committing crime over and over and are impacting different systems within the city. I think that's where we're going to see the benefit from this team is we're not going to just keep on recycling people back through the system, back to the hospital, back to the street, back to jail, back to the hospital, back to the street. It's going to be we're going to get a solution. I'm so proud to say that the city of Long Beach is a frontrunner in the nation. We have other cities and counties across the country that are looking at us. They want to understand how do we analyze our data and where what they're watching us as we launch the justice lab in hopes that when it is successful , that they can replicate something similar. In their own cities. For more information visit Long Beach talk of. Wonderful. We really want to thank our partners who are here, most of them sitting in the front row who really helped us develop the justice lab. Special thank you to the police department, health department, fire, city prosecutor, city attorney, the guidance center, several other nonprofits, many county partners and departments, Cal State University. We actually have rising Cal State University Rising scholars here with us this evening, UCLA and our valued city residents. Now, I would like to turn it over to Alma Castro, our justice lab project manager and data scientist, Nichelle Chaudhry. Thank you, Tracy. Originated in the city manager's Office of Civic Innovation, formerly known as the A-Team. The team conducted a people focus and data driven analysis in 2017 to understand the experience of individuals who frequently interact with law enforcement for low level offenses. After analyzing over 100,000 offenses in Long Beach during a five year period, that determined that 85% of repeat offenses are not serious crimes but rather low level misdemeanor offenses. The Justice Lab has several initiatives aimed at disrupting a cycle of incarceration that currently includes. The Minister of Regulation on interdepartmental data sharing. Multidisciplinary Team. MDT Clinician and gel program. Priority Access Diversion Program. Pad 2.0 PM. Long Beach Guides. Government User Integrated Diversion Enhancement System. Cal State. Long Beach Rising Scholars Education Lab here today and the Data Warehouse. The City Administrative Regulation on enter department data sharing changed the way we discuss information within our city institution. The agreement develop policies and procedures regarding data sharing among city departments that enables providers to access information to better serve residents who frequently interact with the justice system and our service providers. Due to this added regulation as city departments, we can now see that many of the same individuals are coming into contact with PD via health and other departments. The MDT multidisciplinary team is a prominent initiative among the justice lab framework that MDT convenes city and county departments monthly to better coordinate and reduce the burden on individuals accessing and navigating services such as mental health, substance abuse and homeless services. In addition to government entities, the entity also includes nonprofit and university based partners. As you can see here, the MDT framework encompasses a variety of touchpoints from the street, jail and pretrial intercept. The goal is to have a team based approach in our efforts to coordinate services that engages with individuals who are frequently coming into contact with law enforcement and city departments who can benefit from treatment and care. Our university based partners will be rigorously evaluating and testing the MDT effectiveness and reducing law enforcement citations and jail bookings. The clinician, the 18, funded a six month pilot from April through September 2018 for the Clinician and Jail Program, a partnership between the police department and the Guidance Center that provides a full time mental health professional in the jail who assesses, connects and diverse individuals into care. In the six month period period, the clinician saw a total of 297 individuals from those interactions. 106 were identified as individuals who frequent the criminal justice system. In total, the clinician provided 214 direct referrals that mostly involved mental health, substance abuse and homeless services. We wanted to share an example of what a success stories looks like. The clinician met with a young man, let's say, named John, who had previously been diagnosed with a mental health disorder. It was noncompliant with medication. John was receptive to services and authorized a clinician to contact his father to be part of his support system. The clinician, the father and the father produced a recovery plan for John that linked him into inpatient into an inpatient program. Not only did John receive the services he needed, his father also was referred to a parent support group within the same agency. The Priority Access Diversion Program paid to point ARM as a pretrial program through the City Prosecutor's Office. This initiative offers a unique opportunity for residential, mental health and substance abuse treatment in lieu of county jail time. The program focuses on individuals in custody that have mental health or substance abuse challenges. As of now, a total of 42 individuals have been referred through the clinician and jail pilot. Currently under final development, the city prosecutor's office and the police department are working together to to develop guides government user integrated diversion enhancement system. This application will equip first responders with needed information to quickly identify clients and their service connections. The rising scholars here today, thank you so much for being here tonight. The Rising Scholars Education Lab is a program launched by the form by formerly incarcerated students at Cal State Long Beach to mentor and provide peer support to other formerly incarcerated students. The rising scholars firmly believe that higher education is key to reducing recidivism. We are excited. We are excited to work and be part of this student led program now transitioning for the data warehouse. I will let my half of my colleague here, Nicole, give that update. Thank you all. So the justice lab is part of the Nationwide Data-Driven Justice Initiative. And as part of that initiative, we gather data from different departments police, fire, health services, ingests them and integrate them so that our clients can be provided with comprehensive wraparound services. Thank you. In summary, together these initiatives make up the justice lab. Each initiative works towards common goals to connect individuals in need to services and to reduce recidivism for individuals who frequently interact with law enforcement for low level misdemeanor offenses. Currently, the justice lab is funded by multiple streams of funds. That includes $1,000,000 in grant funding from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to implement the MDT and Data Warehouse. This funding source also provides dollars to evaluate the effectiveness of the MDT through our UCLA and Cal State Long Beach Partners, who will conduct a feasibility study and asked to evaluate the MDT team based method of service coordination due to the success of the condition. And Jill Pilot PD is funding an additional year of the clinician and jail program. Recently we were notified that the Health Department received 50 K of grant funds from the MacArthur Foundation Safety and Justice Challenge. Together, Health and PD are developing innovative ways to connect individuals to services through a warm hand-off process upon city jail release. Thank you. And this concludes our report. Okay. Thank you very much. Councilmember Price, that you want to speak to this. Yes. Just briefly, I wanted to thank the I-Team and everyone who has partnered on this video. First of all, I think the video is a really great way to showcase the efforts and the multiple departments working together. Is the video going to be available for us to share on social media? Yes, it will look good if we can get a copy of that. And I'd love to see it come to Public Safety Committee meeting as well. So Jacko will connect with you guys on that. I like the data driven portion of this, and I know our city prosecutor had a lot to do with making it such that different departments can communicate and share information. I know that's always a major area of concern, given all the different privacy issues that are concerned with when we're talking about individuals health and welfare. But I think being able to do that and share that information is really going to help us be effective. I'm wondering some of these programs that we tried or that we're trying that are part of this presentation are is there a plan to make any of these permanent programs for the city like the jail clinician program? That pilot has ended, correct? Yes, that's correct. And due to the success of the six month pilot, PD is funding the clinician and jail program for an additional year for fiscal year 19. That's fine. Okay. So you should have started the presentation with that because that's a really, really good news. And so I, I want to thank the police department for doing that because, you know, when you try a pilot and it works, figuring out how to incorporate it and making a permanent program is really important. And I think the jail clinician program is is one of their step that, you know, it's from the presentation that you guys said of the 800 and something folks that you interviewed of, over 50% were homeless. And many of them indicated that going to jail was not something they viewed as a deterrent, but rather they view jail as a place of respite. And I've repeated that many times. So I think being able to capture that moment and some of the vulnerabilities and sensitivities that come at that moment through the use of a jail clinician is really powerful. So thank you to the police department for making that happen and to everybody. There's just a lot of great work here. I'm I'm I wish this was a little bit earlier in the night because this program and the efforts deserve a lot of recognition and certainly something that we will share with our community. I mean, as I'm sitting here, I'm getting emails from residents about this encampment here, this homeless individual here, and what are you why aren't you doing anything about this there? And so if we can convey kind of some of the work that you're doing on behalf of the city, in this regard, in a in a way like a video like this, I think that will go a long way, not for everyone. It won't appeal to everyone, but it will appeal to some. So thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Pearce. Yes, I want to echo those comments. I think that this is definitely great work. I know you guys have been doing a lot of work over the last several years and it's great to see it finally come to fruition and this holistic view and implementation. I, you know, this weekend I was fortunate enough to be at the women's shelter event in Councilmember Price's district. And, you know, we got to hear everybody speak. And I think one person that spoken, Dave Halbert, got mentioned it. Then your comments about the changing times and how we engage with those that come through the system and whenever we're dealing with so many different crimes and some of them, you know, crimes where mental health is a big player in that, it's really important that Long Beach really is leading that way. And I think we don't celebrate the work that you guys are doing enough as council officers are. I don't. And so I do want to ask for the the video to be shared with us and any information that you can share directly with my council office so that we can include that in our emails that go out . And also want to thank Petey for funding that for another year. I hope that this is a model and that if we need an additional one as years come forward, that we can have that conversation then. But just congratulations team for really taking technology, taking the the equity lens that you guys have been talking about and partnering with with all the key players in this. So really proud of you guys. Proud of the city. Councilmember Richardson. Thank you, Tracy Alma, the entire team. This was fantastic. This was an amazing presentation. I think, you know, considering all the work that's happened over the years in terms of violence prevention. I felt like a lot of that conversation had had sort of diminished. And this was evidence that, no, this pivot to, you know, data driven justice and, you know, integrating sort of this this focus on data. I think it was smart to take it, take some time, refocus, rebrand. And I think this is if anything, this is a lot cooler. And it's going to it may build broader support because the concept of violence prevention in general is still a difficult concept, concept to explain to the public. This has a lens on on on the actual whole person. It's data driven. It makes a lot of sense. And so I support this and I think this presentation has sparked a lot of questions for me. And one in particular, what are the what are the opportunities by what what will this data what is the potential for this data to tell us about our city? Or what tactics what tactics are most successful in terms of saving saves and saving resources into the system, not only the system, but our our direct budget? Is this going to show us or give us some opportunities to see which tactics actually save money and save lives? If so, how soon will we start to see evidence from some of those tactics? So as Alma mentioned, we we are doing a rigorous evaluation in collaboration with our research partners from UCLA and Cal State, Long Beach, and identifying what are the outcomes beyond just the immediate individuals and looking at the cost effectiveness, looking at the amount of time law enforcement spends with a given individual or fire department spends on a given individual is part of that evaluation. So the evaluation period right now is. It's between 18 months to 24 months. So at around that time, we should start. Well, at that time we will have conclusive numbers, but as we proceed forward with the evaluation periodically, we will start generating those numbers as well. Okay. So between 18 to 24 months from the beginning of the pilot. From the beginning of the program. Getting into the programs and going for how long? So I think we started out. How long do you want? Yes, thank you. Council member. The justice plan was officially launched in January 2018, but clinician and jail pilot was from April, April through September 2018. So that's a six month period. And with our other initiatives like the MDT, we're refining and deploying a feasibility study. So through that process, we probably will start looking at outcomes. Six months from now on that what we were able to gain from the feasibility study of the MDT, the multidisciplinary team. And councilmember, if I can add, one of the neat things about this is this was funded by team resources, this effort which then led to an implementation plan. We got grant money to actually build the implementation and then we got grant money to monitor about what implementations we do are actually the most effective. So all of this brought additional money and we can do exactly what you're talking about, which is seeing which are the most effective ways to intervene. Absolutely. And so I'll close with this. I think this is a step in the right direction. It has my complete full support. I want to make sure we stay on top of the evaluation. And I want to I want to begin now, if we haven't already thinking about how we continue to support this funding through that two year period, we should continue this pilot. And even if it requires us being creative about our general fund, we should support this pilot all the way through with with the idea that we're going to make a case for to structurally fund this because it long term saves not just the system, but it saves our budget. And so and so I'm going to be I love that you made this presentation to the station tonight, and I'm going to make sure that we I'm going to be engaging on this issue to make sure you have the resources you need. Thanks. Councilmember Jurado. Thank you, Councilmember Orson, for recognizing me. I totally support this item. I think this is one of those programs and pilot programs that we have to look at with the idea of full implementation and full resources to continue this program all the way through. I think we need to find a way other than grants and temporary funding to continue this. I think that already it's having some positive effects and we need to continue that and with a sustainable budget that will that will keep it going into the future. So I could support this and with the expectation that we can get more data in terms of outcomes as where how we can really acknowledge our successes with this program so that we can for further sustain it as part of our implementation plan for addressing our crime. Thank you. Councilmember Gonzalez. I thought you were next. That's okay. I just want to say thanks again so much. And, you know, I think this is wonderful and it's a really good example. I hear it working for Microsoft. I hear it up in the Silicon Valley about the justice lab in Long Beach. And I think that that's a really I'm excited. People don't even know who I am on the city world. They know who I am with Microsoft. And when I hear great things happening about our city, that really makes me very proud. And I'm glad that we were able to to do this and get this running. And we have really great numbers, too, to prove that this could be a long lasting, sustainable program. Just one thing I'll just and I'm sure you already know, but the Obama Foundation has tons of money they do for these specific projects. We actually have an Obama fellow in L.A. who's working on similar projects, and he's looking to work specifically in Long Beach. So I'll make sure to put you in contact. But I think that that would be a great one. But I just think overall, congratulations. Thanks so much for all your work. Thank you, Councilmember. And I'll add that, you know, I believe that this this what this report was great and that it was clearly paying dividends and producing deliverables early. This is shows that, you know, we can be smart with data and smarter with how we use our resources. And this this video and the report here demonstrates that that our city is really taking a team approach to to justice. And I salute the everybody who has been involved in this. I got to give hats off to the to the council for for taking the the leap and helping to create this this team, but also our city manager and the entire city team. This is a very encouraging report. And, you know, I will support this and look forward to more data and in the months and years to come. Thank you. So members, please cast your votes. Public comment. CNN cast your votes. Motion carries eight to. I did. So I said. They're waiting to see somebody. Want to make comment on this? Please come forward. Oh, no. You said there's. No. No, no. Hi. My name's Irene Sotelo. I'm a student at Cal State, Long Beach Rising Scholars Lab. I'm one of the co-founders of Rising Scholars, Vice President. I'm also formerly incarcerated. We started education lab for the city Long Beach for Cal State, Long Beach. And now we're we're all up and down through California. We go representing different states, trying to make it nationwide. What we do is we help those who are getting out of prison work with like probation or parole department, and we help them. Get those who are just getting out of jail or prison into the education, either GEDs, community college, wherever they need to go into. And we help them step by step into them getting enrolled. And I believe education is a great step to help those to not return back to prison or to jail. And I've been in and out of the system since I was 12 years old. And now I'm already graduating with my masters to help those that are getting out of prison and. Can I can I ask you a quick question? Back in the day when I was at Cal State Long Beach, there had a program called the Pinto Program. Is there something very similar to that? It is. It is a somewhat a similar similar to pinto beans ex-con. Going to one on Thursday. There is no Pinto Club no more. Okay. Very Long Beach when the funding left. All the programing that we're at, any university or any any educational system. Those were the first programs that were cut, was the education for those that were coming home from incarceration or for those that were currently incarcerated. Currently, what we do. My name is John Lewis Hernandez, and I'm the president for Rising Scholars. And so what we have done is firmly believed in how education can change lives. Similarly to her, I started very young with my and my criminal record. Tino's incarcerated for the first time at 21 is back in Joe. And it wasn't that I went to school, but what ended up happening is that I went to go menial labor where I felt that there was nothing for me to do. And it wasn't until I was in school and I made a decision kind of looking at the continuum that you guys were doing it and the referrals and that and the substance abuse and the mental health. But then I started thinking for myself when I wanted to be a drug and alcohol counselor, I was like, Well, what are they going to do once they have their life together? And I thought about education, and education had set me straight. Currently, I'm earning my master's degree in counseling with an emphasis in student development, higher education, looking to work at community colleges, starting a program like Minto programs, which is right. We have 114 community colleges in the state of California, and only about two thirds of them have something for formerly incarcerated students. All the schools have, have or are beginning the process for a project rebound, which is what the new iteration of the Pinto Club is, and not all the community colleges around them will support it. We're uniquely in in a city like Long Beach that has a community college and a CSU located within the same city where you can have a warm hand-off. So that's why we kind of do the work that we do here in the city of Long Beach to just believe in those that that want a different life but don't feel that they can have something different. Because maybe like me, there are two time high school dropout. They didn't complete high school with the regular way and they don't feel they tested in remedial English or math and they don't feel they're going to make it. So we show them where we're at in Masters Programs Awards that we get this year. Almost like a doctoral scholar. I'm a graduate research fellow for the for Long Beach State, two very prestigious awards for our schools. And I'm happy to represent us in that arena as people that have been impacted by incarceration, who usually when you think about someone that has been to jail, you don't think about someone that is going to have these type of awards. You think, so we want to change that narrative, and that's why we do the work that we do. Thank you very much and I salute you both. I'm glad we had the opportunity to hear from you. Public comment. Thank you. Some members have cast their votes on this. We're going to move on to item number 35, back to 35.