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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all necessary documents, and any amendments, to accept and expend grant funding from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, in the amount of $491,211 over a three-year period, to implement a feasibility study and randomized controlled trial to evaluate the Long Beach Justice Lab Multi-Disciplinary Team, beginning April 1, 2018 through March 31, 2021; and
Increase appropriations in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) in the City Manager Department (CM) by $491,211, offset by grant revenue. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
In January 2017, the Long Beach Innovation Team (i-team) shifted its efforts from Economic Development to Public Safety. To support the Long Beach Police Department, the i-team researched data-driven solutions pertaining to high-frequency offenders. High-frequency offenders are individuals cited, or booked, 11 or more times over a five-year period. The primary objective of this research effort is to better understand the experience of high-frequency offenders and develop solutions with the Public Safety Continuum. The entire Long Beach community benefits from the City’s Public Safety Continuum, which includes Police, Fire, Health, Development Services, City Prosecutor’s Office, and other key departments, all contributing to make Long Beach a safer city.
In November 2017, the City Council authorized the City Manager to expend $557,124 in grant funds from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation for implementation of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) and Data Mart. With the new grant funding, the i-team, in collaboration with California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), will conduct a feasibility study to evaluate the effectiveness of the MDT’s team-based method of service planning and care management targeting high frequency offenders.
In January 2018, the City launched a first-of-its-kind Justice Lab to provide new tools to first res...
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