Certified jail cameras as diversion and re-entry support

The County's FY2026 report certifies one program, Equipment - Cameras for the withdrawal suites in the county jail, funded on 04/15/2026 at 68,856.82 (pp4 to 6). It files the program under the primary category Diversion and Re-entry Support and the Schedule B strategies Address the Needs of Criminal Justice-Involved Persons and Prevent Overdose Deaths and Other Harms. It describes cameras in a withdrawal suite to monitor patients going through withdrawal. It gives a launch date of 06/30/2026, the last day of the reporting year, and reports 365 unduplicated individuals served. Asked how the program addresses opioid use disorder through evidence-based or evidence-informed practices, the County answered "This is not a program. It is a one-time award to install cameras to monitor inmates/patients for safety while housed in a withdrawal management suite within the county jail." The books show what the money bought. G.M. White Electrical Contractors purchase order 26-02510, encumbered on 04/15/2026 at 28,930.00, is CCTV system conduit and wiring shipped to Corrections, County Jail. The G.M. White proposal of 03/12/2026, titled County Jail Cameras, prices nine cameras on four runs, to a counselor office and classroom, a transport holding cell, a medical segregation room and I block suicide cells. Safeware purchase order 26-02515, encumbered the same day at 39,926.82, has four lines, CCTV Holding 1 and 3, CCTV Trans/Hold Room, CCTV Class Room and Drug Counsel and CCTV 1 Block. The two orders equal the certified figure to the cent. Neither shows a payment through 05/27/2026, the end of the produced print. The record does not say which of these locations is the withdrawal suite the report describes. Camera systems are not among the uses Exhibit E lists, and no treatment or overdose program using the cameras is documented. The County's own answer says there is no program.