Increase community input by holding quarterly community engagement town halls across Harris County. These meetings should include District Attorney and senior staff, and be available in languages spoken locally, be culturally competent, and conducted at times accessible to working people.

Keep people safe in their communities, reduce harm caused by jailing and reduce incarceration rates by dismissing charges of low level offenses, as recommended by the Justice Management Institute.

Increase accountability by maintaining and publishing a monthly dashboard of resident statistics disaggregated by race, ethnicity, and gender, and gender identity. These data should include information about prosecution, including the number of misdemeanor and felony cases filed each month. The dashboard should also include data on County and City law enforcement use of cite and release, disposition statistics, pretrial incarceration rates and length of stay by offense category, and average bond for each class of offense.

Partnering with Texas Southern University to establish a needs assessment which identifies the educational, social, mental, and economic needs of residents of the county jail.

Implementing a civilian-led oversight system to facilitate research of closed grievances filed against county jail detention officers by residents and family members of residents of the county jail.

Professionalizing the position of county jail detention officers to require a 2- to 4- year degree related to sociology or mental health, and increase the salary without increasing the overall Sheriff's budget.

Creating mandatory policy for all county jail detention officers to wear and turn on body cameras at all times during work hours. This should include accountability measures for not following policy, especially when excessive force was used against a county jail resident. 

Giving residents of the county jail access to on-demand virtual mental health counseling via an electronic tablet. These services should be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from the privacy of the residents cells.

Establishing a system for mandatory daily video calls for all county jail residents living in protective custody or segregation. Residents should be allowed to call a person or business of their choice so long as the person or business does not pose a threat to public safety or jail safety.

Establishing a system to log county jail residents' physical signatures upon receipt of prescribed medication. This log must be up-to-date, available, and publicly viewable for no less than five years.

Establishing a system to log county jail residents' physical signatures upon receipt of every meal.

Enforce resident housing protocol that does not house those accused of non-violent allegations with those alleged with violent offenses.

Enforce resident housing protocol that does not house non-gang-affiliated residents with gang-affiliated residents. This should include accountability measures for violating this protocol.

Increase public safety by creating a “Do Not Call / “Brady Violation” list to prevent flagged officers from testifying in court or making arrests or calls to the District Attorney to accept charges. The District Attorney should also dismiss any current cases where the “Do Not Call” list officers are the arresting officers. This would require the DA to implement a system in order to honor current agreements between the District Attorney and all arresting law enforcement agencies.

Increase the safety of migrant and immigrant communities by creating and enforcing publicly shared internal policies requiring agency staff to not prosecute cases that criminalize migrants, especially those charged with “illegal entry” because of Senate Bill 4 (88S4) and ”smuggling” because of Senate Bill 4 (88S3).

Keep people safe in their communities, reduce harm caused by jailing and reduce incarceration rates by promoting pre-arrest diversion and pre-trial diversion geared towards no plea deals and dismissals, and other non-punitive sentencing programs for children and adults.

Increase safety for survivors of domestic violence by reallocating funding from the District Attorney budget to create a first responder model for domestic violence calls. This should also include automatically granting interested qualified survivors a 2-year protective order, as well as automatically qualifying children for protective orders.

Increase health for pregnant people by creating and enforcing publicly shared internal policies to not prosecute people who seek, assist, or provide safe reproductive healthcare, including abortions for any situation.

Ensure adequate funding for holistic and public health-focused approaches to public safety (e.g. housing, health, education, economic opportunities) by supporting a budget freeze for county law enforcement, court, and prosecuting budgets, excluding medical and jail staff pay.

Increase community input by holding quarterly community engagement town halls across Harris County. These meetings should include Harris County Sheriff and senior staff, and be available in languages spoken locally, be culturally competent, and conducted at times accessible to working people.

Keep people safe in their communities, reduce harm caused by jailing and reduce incarceration rates by accepting the Harris County Enhanced Library Card as a valid form of photo ID.

Keep people safe in their communities, reduce harm caused by jailing and reduce incarceration rates by increasing the use of cite and release for qualified incidents.

Eliminate local tax spending on federal law enforcement by ending all remaining agreements and contracts between Harris County and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Increase the safety of migrant and immigrant communities by creating and enforcing publicly shared internal policies requiring agency staff to not prosecute cases that criminalize migrants, especially those charged with “illegal entry” because of Senate Bill 4 (88S4) and ”smuggling” because of Senate Bill 4 (88S3).

Increase health for pregnant people by creating and enforcing publicly shared internal policies to not criminalize people who seek, assist, or provide safe reproductive healthcare, including abortions for any situation.

Ensure adequate funding for holistic and public health-focused approaches to public safety (e.g. housing, health, education, economic opportunities) by supporting a budget freeze for county law enforcement, court, and prosecuting budgets, excluding medical and jail staff pay.