BILL NUMBER: SB 1198	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hancock

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to amend Section 13012.5 of the Penal Code, relating to
criminal statistics.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1198, as introduced, Hancock. Criminal statistics: countywide
statistics.
   Existing law requires the Department of Justice to present a
report to the Governor annually containing the statewide criminal
statistics of the preceding year.
   This bill would require the department to also include in that
report countywide criminal statistics for that period.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 13012.5 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   13012.5.  (a) The annual report published by the department under
Section 13010 shall, in regard to the contents required by
subdivision (d) of Section 13012, include the following statewide
 and county-level  information:
   (1) The annual number of fitness hearings held in the juvenile
courts under Section 707 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and
the outcomes of those hearings including orders to remand to adult
criminal court, cross-referenced with information about the age,
gender, ethnicity, and offense of the minors whose cases are the
subject of those fitness hearings.
   (2) The annual number of minors whose cases are filed directly in
adult criminal court under Sections 602.5 and 707 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code, cross-referenced with information about the age,
gender, ethnicity, and offense of the minors whose cases are filed
directly to the adult criminal court.
   (3) The outcomes of cases involving minors who are prosecuted in
adult criminal courts, regardless of how adult court jurisdiction was
initiated, including whether the minor was acquitted or convicted,
or whether the case was dismissed and returned to juvenile court,
including sentencing outcomes, cross-referenced with the age, gender,
ethnicity, and offense of the minors subject to these court actions.

   (b) The department's annual report published under Section 13010
shall include the information described in subdivision (d) of Section
13012, as further delineated by this section, beginning with the
report due on July 1, 2003, for the preceding calendar year.