County Commissioners approved a $100,000 contract with UT Health to find ways to improve how the county processes people who are arrested.
The Justice Intake and Assessment Annex, which is located right next to the Bexar County Jail, has not been evaluated for efficacy since its opening in 2018., which opened in 2018 and hasn’t been assessed for efficiency or best practices since, according to lead researcher Alexander Testa, an assistant professor at the university.
“We need to figure out how information flows from the arrest … through this intake process up to the magistrate, up then to the district court judges — where perhaps a repeat offender bonds out again,” said Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai. The study will also review various data systems — used by county and city magistrates, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, SAPD and other law enforcement agencies like school district police departments — and make recommendations on streamlining technology and data collection across the system, Testa said.
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