IDOC teams up with tech nonprofit to improve public safety

A partnership between the Idaho Department of Correction and a nonprofit organization, which began as an employee-volunteer project at Google, is helping make Idaho’s correctional system more efficient.

The nonprofit, Recidiviz, was founded in 2018 by a former Google product manager, Clementine Jacoby. She and her colleagues were searching for ways to more easily identify people who posed a low risk to public safety so that more resources could be focused on high-risk individuals.

IDOC teamed up with Recidiviz three years ago to improve the supervision of people on probation and parole. Prior to the partnership, officers spent hours each month wading through various databases to determine which clients were in need of assessment, home visits, or drug tests.

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