The Transportation section is responsible for all inmate movements, including going to and from local courts, medical transports (both emergency and scheduled appointments), all out of county and out of state prisoner pickups, all prisoners sent to prison or special programs, and all prisoner transports from state prison by court order.  Transportation staff also assists with security at the Yolo County Court house, the Erwin Meier Administration Building, two off-site courtrooms, and the Court Holding Facility.

Each business day morning, the Sheriff’s bus, and vans transport inmates to the holding facility, which was formerly the County Jail.  They are housed in the facility pending their appearance in court, then returned to the Monroe Center after court.  Two Deputy Sheriffs operate the control room and monitor the movement of the inmates to and from their appearances.  In addition, they observe closed circuit television monitors to building perimeters and all but two courtrooms.

Transportation numbers continue to climb.   Since April 2000, we have transported an average of three to five inmates to medical appointments each week.  In addition, all working inmates who are injured while working in one of the various county venues are transported to an off site facility for their workers’ compensation injuries.

The unit is also heavily involved in the T.O.P.I.C. (Transportation of Prisoners in Cooperation) program. T.O.P.I.C. is in its second year of organized cooperation.  This program involves the transportation of prisoners for and by other jurisdictions in order to reduce the need for redundant traveling by two or more agencies. It is estimated that for every transport mile traveled by this unit in support of other agencies, 18 transport miles are received in support of moving our own prisoners. This program saves valuable monetary and personnel resources. The program now reaches as far as Colorado and is expected to grow with time.