Stevens asks about Close to Home and non-secure detention
Stevens asks whether Close to Home is part of the plan and about non-secure detention capacity. Administration witnesses say Close to Home is for post-disposition family court placements, not detention, and that non-secure detention has 87 beds with 50 youth and nine more coming online.
Is close to home part of the administration's plan to reduce overcrowding and detention?
If so, how many close to home slots are currently available and filled, and are there plans to expand the model?
So I'm going to take that one.
So we are not permitted to use close to home for detention.
Close to home is for young people who have been through the family court who are placed by the family court post-disposition.
But I think what you're getting at is do we have an alternative where we could place young people besides secure detention, which we've been using non-secure detention as a discussion and
that's also in the release as an item that we're pursuing currently.
And so I do have information about non-secure detention.
If you'd like that.
So we currently contract with five providers for seven non-secure detention sites.
We currently have 87 beds and 50 youth in them, and we are in the process of bringing online an additional nine.
And so we believe we'll be able to have enough capacity in non-secure for the young people in detention who, as part of the work we're doing, the court is willing to step them down.
They'd have to be juvenile offenders to step down into NSD or to get originally placed in NSD.
rather than secure.
I do have the budget code if you're looking for that.
Do we need the budget code?
Yes.
The contracted budget is $18.4 million.
The unit of appropriation is 008.
The budget code is 2350.
The object code is 640.
I honestly don't know what any of that means.
And that funding includes the nine beds that are not currently online but will be soon.
Thank you.