2. Jail post-occupancy report - Laserfiche WebLink

in the reduction of inconsistencies between shifts and individual staff. The Sheriff recognizes the importance of updating jail management tools -- master facility schedule, policies and procedures, post orders, and the inmate handbook. The updating of the inmate handbook was undertaken first because inconsistencies between the handbook and actual operations caused conflicts with the inmates. The handbook has been finished and work is under, way on the policies and procedures manual. Staff must be retrained on each updated manage .m_.ent tool. For example, staff must receive training on the changes made to the inmate handbook and later on the changes to the policies and procedures. The training can take several forms -- reading the revised material, classroom lecture, explanation on post by the Supervisor, etc. The key is that the staff is fully informed of the changes and that the changes are applied consistently. Henceforth, the policies and procedures for maintaining and revising the management tools should be followed. They describe the procedure to follow to update the tools each time a change is needed. At a minimum, the management tools must be reviewed and updated once per year. Because changes can have budget implications, the annual review usually precedes the annual budget process. It is unanimous among the jail supervisors that there is not enough staff to adequately cover all of the posts on every shift. This may or may not be an accurate perception. First, the original staffing was constructed around 8-hour shifts to best coincide with workload. However, because the Supervisors believed going from 12 to 8-hour shifts would have a significant negative impact on staff morale, they continued using equally staffed 12-hour shifts. This has no affect on a post that is staffed 12 or 24 hours per day. However, it results in too many or too few staff on posts that require 8 or 16-