Inside CDCR’s Digital Transformation: Cutting Paper, Boosting Transparency, and Modernizing Operations

Published On: March 3, 2026

CDCR Undersecretary Jennifer Barretto outlines how the nation’s largest state corrections agency is modernizing paper-heavy operations. She highlights tablet-based housing logs, a pilot for sensor-driven digital heat logs, plans to digitize 20,000 monthly grievances, providing Wi-Fi across agency locations, and workflow redesign using data and analytics. Watch her keynote address at the Forum on Emerging Technologies and Government Modernization on December 4, 2025.

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