Common use of DMC Reduction Clause in Contracts

DMC Reduction. Evaluation and Tools‌ (a) Within nine months of the Effective Date, JCMSC shall commence use of objective decision-making tools to assess necessary court services for Children, including, but not limited to, alternatives to detention, referrals for social services, and prevention and early intervention services. This requirement may not replace the necessary steps to ensure compliance with due process described in the above Section. (b) Within nine months of the Effective Date, JCMSC shall refine its objective decision-making tools for determining whether pre-adjudication detention is necessary for a particular Child. In addition to due process considerations outlined above, JCMSC shall expressly identify a list of reasons for which a Child may not be detained. This list shall include, but is not limited to: punishment; treatment; meeting the demands of the community, the police, a victim, or school administrators; providing convenient access to the Child; arranging services for the Child; satisfying the demands of the Child’s parent(s) or guardian(s); or facilitating the interrogation of the Child or investigation of the offense. (c) Within nine months of the Effective Date, JCMSC shall implement a pilot program allowing law enforcement to phone in information about a recently arrested youth, which could lead to more youth being released with a summons and fewer transports by law enforcement to JCMSC. (d) Within nine months of the Effective Date, JCMSC shall develop objective tools for providing pre-and post-adjudication alternatives to secure detention, probation recommendations (including initial placement, technical violations, and the level of supervision), and transfer recommendations. To assist with the expansion of services, JCMSC shall partner with other County departments and agencies as necessary to increase access to direct services within the community (including the implementation of a pilot diversion program). JCMSC shall use the inventory of the available services and diversion options by race, ethnicity, and geographic region to inform its decision to provide or expand the required services. In particular, JCMSC shall assess the availability of house arrest, day/evening treatment centers, intensive probation, shelter care, specialized xxxxxx care, and attendant or holdover care. (e) Within nine months of the Effective Date, JCMSC shall develop and implement a process to statistically review all transfer recommendations. The objective measure and the Transfer Hearing bench card (referenced in the due process section above) shall be evaluated to determine if there are any patterns contributing to DMC in transfer recommendations, identify the departments and particular decision-makers contributing to DMC in transfer recommendations, and develop an action plan for eliminating the pattern and reducing the factors contributing to DMC in transfer recommendations. (f) Within nine months of the Effective Date, JCMSC shall begin implementing the revised data collection mechanism to assist in its continued evaluation of DMC levels, causes, and reduction. (g) Within nine months of the Effective Date, each designated DMC point of contact shall begin to use the department’s data to evaluate the following on a monthly basis: (i) The relative rate index relating to the department’s area of review; (ii) A review of overrides using the objective factors developed for the department, including whether permissible overrides should be revised; (iii) A review of the number of Children detained, in part, due to the department’s actions; (iv) A review of any explanations of such detention actions; (v) A review of the number of Children offered non-judicial options by the department; and (vi) A review of the effectiveness of the decision-making tools developed to ensure that decisions are not based on a Child’s race or proxies for a Child’s race or ethnicity. Each month, the designated DMC point of contact shall provide a management report to the department head and to the Judge identifying conduct or decision- making that increases DMC or frustrates efforts to reduce DMC. The DMC point of contact, department head, and Judge shall address these concerns. The DMC point of contact shall ensure that suggestions for addressing inconsistencies and overrides are communicated to the responsible JCMSC employee. (h) On an annual basis, JCMSC shall evaluate and revise all objective decision- making tools listed above to minimize the extent, if any, to which the tool uses racial or ethnic differences (or proxies for racial and ethnic differences) as a basis for decision-making.