SAN DIEGO – As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of deaths in custody, the San Diego Sheriff’s Office will soon begin testing biometric monitoring devices designed to alert staff when someone in jail is in medical distress.
Speaking at a meeting of the Citizens’ Law Enforcement Review Board on Thursday, Sheriff Kelly Martinez said her department plans to pilot the devices at the downtown Central Jail and at the Las Colinas women’s jail “in the next few weeks.”
This follows an earlier pilot program, first announced in October 2022, that ended because of problems with the devices…