Last week, Tulare County became the 11th county to be added
to the network of counties in the CSAC Support Hub- a capacity-building
initiative designed to assist counties in increasing their use of
data and evidence to make informed decisions about criminal
justice programs and their benefits.
Over the next year, the CSAC Support Hub team will work with the
Tulare County Probation Department to develop an inventory of
programs, conduct a cost-benefit analysis, and provide support on
how to use project finding to drive meaningful changes or
improvements in local criminal justice efforts. Both the Tulare
County Board of Supervisors and the Community Corrections
Partnerships have enthusiastically endorsed the project and are
excited to have access to this free resource to help them achieve
positive outcomes in community supervision.
For the last 5 years, the CSAC Support Hub has partnered with 10
counties and empowered them to take deep dives into their local
criminal justice systems to understand programmatic best
practices, improve implementation of interventions, and
understand the impact of programs on recidivism through
cost-benefit analysis.
Los Angeles, Contra Costa, and Stanislaus counties will also be
launching projects with the CSAC Support Hub over the next month.
These four counties will join Alameda, Fresno, Kern, Nevada,
Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Ventura, and Yolo
counties as part of a statewide network of counties working to
incorporate data-driven and evidence-based practices into their
criminal justice programs.
For more information about the CSAC Support Hub for Criminal
Justice Programming contact: RSouza@counties.org.
