Sheriff John Roberston
​endorses  Supervisor Luce.

The Criminal Justice Committee

In 2004, in response to the jail regularly being at or near its rated capacity, the Board of Supervisors convened a Criminal Justice Committee consisting of the appointed and elected department heads of the County criminal justice and health and human services agencies; Superior Court judges and executives;  and the City of Napa Police Department. The group was charged with identifying strategies to alleviate the impact of system practices on the jail. After four years of research, training,  consultations and openly working through concerns and biases of various partners, the County has developed and implemented an Adult Correctional System Master Plan.   See ADULT CORRECTIONS

Public Safety

The most important aspect of maintaining public safety is keeping police officers on the street.  It may be a surprise to some that the American Canyon Police department is actually the Napa County Sheriff. We are under contract to provide these services.  This recent article in the Napa Register describes how effective our Sheriff is at keeping crime out of our county.

Cities share border, not crime

My role is to maintain strong fiscal controls so that our Sheriff has the people he needs during these economic downturns. I also support the many efforts of our Judicial system to prevent crime, hold criminals accountable, and to assist offenders as they leave jail to make better life choices. I am the Board appointment to our Criminal Justice Committee, now the Community Corrections Partnership Committee,  that has developed and applied evidenced based practices which is reducing the number of repeat offenders and is a model for the state.  It has been a collaborative effort with the DA, Public Defender, Judges, Napa City Police Chief, Probation, Health and Human Services, the Sheriff, and myself representing the Board of Supervisors.  Together we have reviewed the entire system and identified ways to improve. Repeat offenders were filling our jail beds.  As a result of our efforts we have postponed the need for a new jail ($100 million) for at least another four years and are seeing fewer re-offenders.