Shasta County will explore housing inmates out of county and operating a sobering center in the county jail to improve public safety.

The proposals hinge on cobbling together funding from a loan, dipping into county reserves, a partnership with the city of Redding and the sale of the former Redding police station.

For the sobering center, county staff will explore having counselors work inside the county jail. A sobering center was one of the goals presented in the Blueprint for Public Safety and would have been funded in part by Measure D, the half-cent sales tax that failed to generate enough votes from Redding residents last year.

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