Stevens asks about staff contraband and disciplinary data
Stevens notes five former youth development specialists pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and smuggling contraband. She asks what ACS has done since 2024 and how many staff were disciplined; administration witnesses say they will follow up with data and describe screening and bag policies.
On October 24, four, I mean five former youth development specialists at Crossroad pled guilty to charges of accepting more than $50,000 in cash bribes to smuggling marijuana, razor blades, prescription pills, and other contraband into the facility.
Since 2024, what steps have ACS taken to prevent staff from bringing in contraband into facilities?
Specifically, what changes has ACS made to staff screenings at entering, background checks, supervision, internal monitoring, and how many staff members
have been disciplined or referred to investigation for contraband-related incidents since 2024?
So we will have to get the specific data for you and follow up.
What I will say is, you know, a big piece of safety and security in the facility is trying to prevent contraband from coming in as well as
confiscating it and finding it if it is already in the facility.
And the scanning, all of those measures are things that staff have to actually go through as they are entering the building and there are requirements according to policy around
what type of bag or not, can you bring in, all of those sort of things.
But we will happily follow up with the specific data that you're asking for.