Five months after outbreak, California to publish COVID-19 data on local jails

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Published:
July 15, 2020

"California's jail oversight board on Wednesday said it would collect and publish data about COVID-19 cases in county facilities, a response to months of public criticism and an apparently faltering effort to get similar information from the state's health department.

"The Board of State and Community Corrections in a letter to sheriffs asks them to provide data about COVID-19 deaths as well as positive cases among employees and inmates."

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"The need for this information is just so obvious," said LBJ's Michele Deitch last month.

 

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