$8.6 MILLION
CONTRACT.
As LAC reneged on the promises of the Care First, Jails Last vision, it signed an illegal contract with a surveillance consulting firm, Accenture, which will only exacerbate the crisis. The bloated, illegal contract with Accenture includes at least:
$1.56 million for 6 months of strategic planning
$2.85 million for 18 months of pilots in up to 8 locations
$4 million to support Accenture subcontracts with community based organizations or Accenture staff, with no incentives for the former.
TAXPAYER DOLLARS: $8.6M
Source: Care First Community Investment Funds
According to the contract, at least a significant portion of Accenture staff time is paid for with CFCI funding created by the passage of Measure J in July 2020 to “address the disproportionate impact of racial injustice through community investment and alternatives to incarceration and prohibit[ ] using those funds for carceral systems and law enforcement agencies.”
JCOD Agreement: Sole Source Agreement
The contract waived the "County’s standard open competitive solicitation or bidding requirements, the County’s Sole Source Policy, and other County standard terms and conditions for contracting." (Recital Page 1)
Spending committment: Cost of Accenture staff
The hourly rate for an Accenture Project Manager is higher than the top elected officials in LA County.
hourly rates
FIRST 7 WEEKS: $525,525
Kick off meeting $28,665
1 powerpoint and one meeting with JCOD leadership
Baseline project schedule $19,110
1 powerpoint and 1 meeting with JCOD leadership
Project management plan $47,775
1 word doc of project methodology, communication, deliverables
Current state description $286,000
1 powerpoint with draft interview questions and up to 15 interviews 5 focus groups with stakeholders that do not include justice-involved people as relevant for input.
Weekly project status $95,550
1-slide powerpoint provided weekly to update JCOD on the project progress on a weekly basis
Pretrial quick wins $47,775
A “log” Accenture will maintain of potential quick wins.
NEXT 12 WEEKS: $429,975
Target state journey maps $143,325
1 powerpoint tracking how they want the experience to look for 14 key “personas” who are stakeholders in the system
Target operating model $286,650
1 powerpoint that defines JCOD’s mission, and a blueprint for the new pretrial services model.
Defined and prioritized pretrial initiatives $156,000
1 powerpoint that details each proposed new initiative and who is responsible for it.
Comms strategy and plan $312,000
1 word doc with stakeholder plan and Excel with comms channels
Project Roadmap $312,00
1 powerpoint (with supporting Excel) outlining the “implementation roadmap.”
“The message keeps getting out police are systemically racist. And it's just not true... The past couple of years have been bad for those [police] men and women, and there's gotta be big investment in leadership, in equipment, in training, anything they need.
And it's got to come not only from the superintendent, but it's got to come from the mayor, it's got to come from the state's attorney and it's got to come from the judges.
- 2023, Jodi Weiss
JODI WEISS
ACCENTURE ADVISOR: LAC COMMUNITY-BASED PRETRIAL SYSTEM
FORMERLY: FBI SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE OF LA; CHIEF OF POLICE, CHICAGO
