Bill Text: CA AB2882 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: California Community Corrections Performance Incentives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. [AB2882 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2882-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 16, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member McCarty |
February 15, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill would require each county to submit the County Community Corrections Outcomes, Accountability, and Transparency report annually to the Board of State and Community Corrections that includes, among other things, the number of people who have a serious mental illness or substance use disorder who are connected to community-based treatment and support upon release from jail or completion of community supervision. The bill would require each county’s board of supervisors to verify that the report is complete and accurate before it is submitted to the board. Because this bill would expand the duties for certain local officials, it would impose a state-mandated local program.
Existing law requires the Board of State and Community Corrections to collect and maintain available information and data about state and community correctional policies, practices, capacities, and needs, including, but not limited to, prevention, intervention, suppression, supervision, and incapacitation, as they relate to both adult corrections, juvenile justice, and gang problems. Existing law requires the board to collect and analyze available data regarding the implementation of the local plans and other outcome-based measures.
This bill would require the board to create the Community Corrections Outcomes, Accountability, and Transparency dashboard that displays the county’s goals mentioned above and the spending and outcomes data reported in the County Community Corrections Outcomes, Accountability, and Transparency report. The bill would require the dashboard to be accessible through the board’s internet website.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1230 of the Penal Code is amended to read:1230.
(a) Each county is hereby authorized to establish in each county treasury a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund (CCPIF), to receive all amounts allocated to that county for purposes of implementing this chapter.SEC. 2.
Section 1230.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read:1230.1.
(a) Each county local Community Corrections Partnership established pursuant to subdivision(a)(1)Each county shall submit the County Community Corrections Outcomes, Accountability, and Transparency report annually to the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC).
(2)The report shall be submitted in a form, manner, and in accordance with timelines prescribed by the BSCC.
(b)The report shall include all of the following data and information:
(1)The county’s annual allocation of state and federal public safety funds, including for behavioral health care, by category.
(2)The county’s annual expenditure of state and federal public safety funds, including for behavioral health care, by category.
(3)The amounts of annual and cumulative unspent state and federal public
safety funds, including funds in a reserve account, by category.
(4)The county’s annual expenditure of county general funds and other funds, by category, on public safety, including for behavioral health care.
(5)All administrative costs associated with community corrections, by category.
(6)All contracted services, including behavioral health services, and the cost of those contracted services, by category.
(7)The number of behavioral health calls for services received by 911 dispatch.
(8)The number of jail bookings, including the number of people who screened positive for a serious mental illness or substance use disorder according to a validated behavioral health screening conducted when booked into jail, and the number of people who were confirmed as having serious mental illness or substance use disorder through a clinical assessment at the jail or as a result
of data matching with state or local behavioral health systems.
(9)Length of jail stay.
(10)The number of people who have a serious mental illness or substance use disorder who are connected to community-based treatment and support upon release from jail or completion of community supervision, by release type.
(11)The number of people enrolled in Medi-Cal prior to release from jail or completion of community supervision, by release type.
(12)The number of people who have a serious mental illness or substance use disorder on community supervision, by release type.
(13)The number of persons who are convicted of a new felony or misdemeanor committed within three years of release from custody or committed within three years of placement on supervision for a previous criminal conviction.
(c)Each county’s board of supervisors shall verify that
the report is complete and accurate before it is submitted to the BSCC.
(a)It shall be the duty of the Board of State and Community Corrections to collect and maintain available information and data about state and community correctional policies, practices, capacities, and needs, including, but not limited to, prevention, intervention, suppression, supervision, and incapacitation, as they relate to both adult corrections, juvenile justice, and gang problems. The board shall seek to collect and make publicly available up-to-date data and information reflecting the impact of state and community correctional, juvenile justice, and gang-related policies and practices enacted in the state, as well as information and data concerning promising and evidence-based practices from other jurisdictions.
(b)Consistent with subdivision (c) of
Section 6024, the board shall also:
(1)Develop recommendations for the improvement of criminal justice and delinquency and gang prevention activity throughout the state.
(2)Identify, promote, and provide technical assistance relating to evidence-based programs, practices, and promising and innovative projects consistent with the mission of the board.
(3)Develop definitions of key terms, including, but not limited to, “recidivism,” “average daily population,” “treatment program completion rates,” and any other terms deemed relevant in order to facilitate consistency in local data collection, evaluation, and implementation of evidence-based practices, promising evidence-based practices, and evidence-based programs. In developing these definitions, the board shall consult with the following stakeholders and
experts:
(A)A county supervisor or county administrative officer, selected after conferring with the California State Association of Counties.
(B)A county sheriff, selected after conferring with the California State Sheriffs’ Association.
(C)A chief probation officer, selected after conferring with the Chief Probation Officers of California.
(D)A district attorney, selected after conferring with the California District Attorneys Association.
(E)A public defender, selected after conferring with the California Public Defenders Association.
(F)The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
(G)A representative from the Judicial Council.
(H)A representative from a nonpartisan, nonprofit policy institute with experience and involvement in research and data relating to California’s criminal justice system.
(I)A representative from a nonprofit agency providing comprehensive reentry services.
(4)Receive and disburse federal funds, and perform all necessary and appropriate services in the performance of its duties as established by federal acts.
(5)Develop comprehensive, unified, and orderly procedures to ensure that applications for grants are processed fairly, efficiently, and in a manner consistent with the mission of the board.
(6)Identify delinquency and gang intervention and prevention grants that have the same or similar program purpose, are allocated to the same entities, serve the same target populations, and have the same desired outcomes for the purpose of consolidating grant funds and programs and moving toward a unified single delinquency intervention and prevention grant application process in adherence with all applicable federal guidelines and mandates.
(7)Cooperate with and render technical assistance to the Legislature, state agencies, units of general local government, combinations of those units, or other public or private agencies, organizations, or institutions in matters relating to
criminal justice and delinquency prevention.
(8)Develop incentives for units of local government to develop comprehensive regional partnerships whereby adjacent jurisdictions pool grant funds in order to deliver services, such as job training and employment opportunities, to a broader target population, including at-promise youth, and maximize the impact of state funds at the local level.
(9)Conduct evaluation studies of the programs and activities assisted by the federal acts.
(10)Identify and evaluate state, local, and federal gang and youth violence suppression, intervention, and prevention programs and strategies, along with funding for those efforts. The board shall assess and make recommendations for the coordination of the state’s programs, strategies, and funding that address gang and youth violence in a
manner that maximizes the effectiveness and coordination of those programs, strategies, and resources. By January 1, 2014, the board shall develop funding allocation policies to ensure that within three years no less than 70 percent of funding for gang and youth violence suppression, intervention, and prevention programs and strategies is used in programs that utilize promising and proven evidence-based principles and practices. The board shall communicate with local agencies and programs in an effort to promote the best evidence-based principles and practices for addressing gang and youth violence through suppression, intervention, and prevention.
(c)The board shall
collect from each county the plan submitted pursuant to Section 1230.1 within two months of adoption by the county boards of supervisors. Commencing January 1, 2013, and annually thereafter, the board shall collect and analyze available data regarding the implementation of the local plans and other outcome-based measures, as defined by the board in consultation with the Judicial Council the Chief Probation Officers of California, and the California State Sheriffs’ Association. By July 1, 2013, and annually thereafter, the board shall provide to the Governor and the Legislature a report on the implementation of the plans described above.
(d)Commencing on and after July 1, 2012, the board, in consultation with the Judicial Council, the California State Association of Counties, the California State Sheriffs’ Association, and the Chief Probation Officers of California, shall support the development and implementation of first phase baseline and ongoing data collection instruments to reflect the local impact of Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011, specifically related to dispositions for felony offenders and postrelease community supervision. The board shall make any data collected pursuant to this paragraph available on the board’s internet website. It
is the intent of the Legislature that the board promote collaboration and the reduction of duplication of data collection and reporting efforts where possible.
(e)(1)The board shall create the Community Corrections Outcomes, Accountability, and Transparency dashboard that shall be accessible through the board’s internet website. The dashboard shall display information including, but not limited to, both of the following:
(A)Each county’s plans pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 1230.1.
(B)The spending and outcomes data reported pursuant to Section 1230.2. Outcomes shall be displayed so that changes in rates can be compared year over year and between counties.
(2)The board shall ensure definitions, form, and manner of the data and information submitted pursuant to Sections 1230.1 and 1230.2 are consistent so that spending and outcomes data can be compared across counties.
(f)The board may do either of the following:
(1)Collect, evaluate, publish, and disseminate statistics and other information on the condition and progress of criminal justice in the state.
(2)Perform other functions and duties as required by
federal acts, rules, regulations, or guidelines in acting as the administrative office of the state planning agency for distribution of federal grants.
(g)This chapter shall not be construed to include, in the provisions set forth in this section, funds already designated to the Local Revenue Fund 2011 pursuant to Section 30025 of the Government Code.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.