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Last Updated: 8-25-04
AB
129 (Cohn) Juvenile Court: dual status children
CPOC Position: Support
Would authorize the probation department and the child welfare
department in any county, with the approval of the presiding judge of
the juvenile court, to create a protocol to permit a minor to be designated
as both a dependent child and a ward of the Court.
AB
1901 (Ridley-Thomas) Probation: education
CPOC Position: Support
Existing law also authorizes the court to require a probationer to participate
in a literary or General Education Development Program. Existing law states
that the pilot program is deemed successful if at least 10% of the persons
participating in the pilot projects obtain the equivalent of a 12th grade
education within 3 years. This bill would state that the pilot program
would be deemed successful if at least 10% of the persons participating
in the pilot projects obtain the equivalent of at 12th grade education
within 3 years or improve their academic performance by 3 grade levels
within 3 years.
AB
1937 (Corbett) Sex offenders
CPOC Position: Support
Existing law requires a person convicted of any of certain specified sexual
offenses to register with local law enforcement for the rest of his or
her life while residing, located, attending school, or working in California.
This bill would require any state or local governmental agency, upon request,
to provide to the Department of Justice, a court, or any California law
enforcement agency, the address of any person who the department, the
court, or the law enforcement agency believes to be in violation of his
or her duty to register under these provisions.
AB
1941 (Chan) Criminal procedure
CPOC Position: Support if funded and amended.
Amended
3-18-04 (5-21-04 In appropriations suspense,
no funding)
Would require law enforcement and protective services agencies to develop
protocols in collaboration with local educational, judicial, correctional,
and community-based organizations, when appropriate, regarding how to
best cooperate in their response to the arrest of a caretaker parent in
a home in which a minor child resides, to ensure the child's safety and
well-being.
AB
1948 (Aghazarian) Placement of minors
CPOC Position: Support if amended to read "responsibility
of group home"
Amended
4-15-04
5-21-04 CPOC position changed to "watch".
Language changed to CPOC recommendation, then change to "receiving
county may notifyhttp://www.cpoc.org."
Would require that if a minor who has been found to have committed a violent
crime or a sexual offense is placed in a licensed group home outside the
ward's county of residence, the probation officer or county employee responsible
for placing the minor in the group home shall notify the municipal police
department, as specified, and the sheriff's department of the county in
which the group home is located, of that placement within 10 days of making
the placement.
AB
1956 (Wolk) Diversion: developmentally disabled defendants
CPOC Position: Watch
Amended
4-26-06
Would expand this diversion program for the mentally retarded by
applying it to those persons with cognitive developmental disabilities
rather than only mental retardation, a term that would also permit persons
with autism, or deficits similar to mental retardation or autism, to enter
this diversion program and to receive services under the program.
AB
2011 (Firebaugh) Criminal procedure: release on bail.
CPOC Position: Watch
Would require a court to consider the same circumstances that a court
must consider after a verdict against a defendant in determining whether
to allow a defendant who is not punishable by death and who is not applying
for probation or pending appeal to be admitted to or to remain out on
bail after a plea of guilty or nolo contendere
AB
2019 (Steinberg) Mentally incompetent minors
CPOC Position: OPPOSE
Amended
4-29-04
Would establish specified procedures for conducting a hearing
regarding mental competence of a minor under juvenile court law, and temporarily
suspend any other proceeding until the competency of the minor is determined.
The bill would impose various duties on the juvenile court and counsel
of a minor subject to those procedures. The bill would provide that a
minor is presumed competent, unless a preponderance of the evidence proves
otherwise.
AB
2058 (La Suer) Corrections: Corrections Training Fund
CPOC Position: SPONSORED
Would require local governments receiving state aid through grants
for these correctional training purposes, as specified, to adhere to the
standards established by the board. Would provide funding for this training.
AB
2271 (Parra) Jury selection: peace officers
CPOC Position: Oppose
Amended
4-28-04
5-19-04 CPOC position changed to WATCH as Probation Officers being exempt
has been removed from legislation.
Would exempt Probation Officers from jury duty.
AB
2395 (Correa) Forensic identificatio
Sex Registration
CPOC Position: Oppose Watch
4-1-04
Bill has changed to bill to require sex registration if person convicted
in jurisdiction other than California would be required to register in
the jurisdiction where convicted. Would make legislative findings regarding the use of DNA and other
forensic identification. Would impose a 10% DNA fee on all fines and penalty
assessments including traffic. In first two years the fee would be split
70% state and 30% county for use by agencies collecting, storing DNA samples.
The split would be 50/50 in the third calendar year and 25% to state and
75% to county thereafter.
AB 2431(Steinberg) Firearms
CPOC Position: Support if amended
Would, in the case of an exhibit that is a firearm, require the
clerk of the court to cause local law enforcement to determine if the
person requesting return of the firearm is in a class prohibited from
possessing firearms. If the firearm may be returned to the person requesting
it, and the firearm is a handgun, specified information would be required
to be submitted to the Department of Justice by local law enforcement.
AB
2483 (Chan) Adolescent alcohol and substance abuse care
CPOC Position: Watch and refer to committee for
further study
Amended
5-3-04
5-19-04 Language changed, CPOC position WATCH
Would state the Legislature's intent to enact legislation that
would require all counties to develop an annual plan to develop an evidence-based
methodology, which meets specified requirements, to provide services to
adolescents with alcohol and other drug-related problems.
AB 2648 (Jerome Horton) Law Enforcement Apprenticeship Programs
CPOC Position: Support
Amended 4-26-04
Would establish the law enforcement apprenticeship program and require
the State Department of Education to award grants, funded from private
sources, to nonprofit educational foundations that demonstrate the ability
to mentor, assist, educate, and prepare at-risk minority youth, provide
them with the skills necessary to successfully pursue occupations in law
enforcement and criminal justice, and increase the number of minority
and disadvantaged youth who enter into the law enforcement and criminal
justice applicant pools.
AB
2680 (McLeod, Negrete) Meyers-Milias-Brown Act: exception
CPOC Position: SPONSORED
The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, which generally governs relations
between local public employers and local public employee organizations,
provides that changes in its provisions made by specified legislation
shall not apply to persons who are generally defined as peace officers.
This bill would also include persons who are peace officers employed by
county probation departments within this exception. Bill "hijacked",
now an Education bill.
AB
2895 (Goldberg) Prisons: mothers: notice
Domestic Violence
CPOC Position: Support if amended to require
Department of C
Would require the probation department, no later than the day that any
woman is sentenced to the state prison, notify the woman of the of the
existence of community treatment programs. If the term of the state imprisonment
does not exceed six years on the basis of either the probable release
or parole date computed as if the maximum amount of good time credit would
be granted. The probation department shall determine the term of state
imprisonment for the purposes of this section.
AB
2930 (Koretz) Public safety officers: discipline.
CPOC Position: Oppose
Amended
5-12-04
Would provide that, in criminal matters, a public safety officers
representative may not be required to disclose, nor be subject to punitive
action for refusing to disclose, information received from the officer
before the officer was informed in writing that the investigation involved
criminal allegations.
AB
2946 (Goldberg) Inmates: county facilities: clergy access.
CPOC Position: Strongly OPPOSE and refer to CAPIA
committee
Amended
5-4-04 CPOC position Watch
Would require Sheriff/Probation Officer to develop rules governing
the activities of clergy which ensure that clergy are not denied access
to a facility because he or she lodges a complaint about the behavior
of staff or of the operation of the facility or because he or she provides
information to the public including the media on any aspect of the operation
of the jail or because he or she assists in efforts to modify the functioning
of the jail. Clergy shall only be denied access to inmates when the inmate
objects or when clergy present a clear and present danger to the safety
and security of the institution through a violation of institutional rules.
When a sheriff or probation officer to deny access to a jail, lockup,
or juvenile hall camp or ranch to a member of the clergy or lay person
acting under the auspices of a religious organization he or she must provide
an opportunity to appeal that decision to a neutral fact finder. The
burden shall be on the individual seeking to deny access to demonstrate
that allowing access to the facility will jeopardize the safety or security
of the institution.
AB
2947 (Pacheco) Youth services
CPOC Position: SPONSORED
Amended
4-21-04
Under the Comprehensive Youth Services Act funds are provided to
counties for the provision of services to children who are habitual truants,
runaways, at risk of being wards of the court, or under the supervision
of a county probation department. Existing law provides for the act to
remain operative only until October 31, 2004. This bill would repeal
the “sunset date.” This bill would change the sunset date to October
31, 2007.
SB
1151 (Kuehl) Juvenile crime
CPOC Position: Watch
Amended
3-16-04
The commission of specified offenses by a minor 14 years of age
or older raises a presumption that the minor is not a fit and proper subject
to be dealt with juvenile court law, unless the juvenile court concludes
that the minor would be amenable to juvenile court treatment based upon
evaluation of specified
SB
1223 (Kuehl) Criminal law: juvenile
CPOC Position: Oppose
Would give sentencing courts the discretion to review and reduce,
suspend, or reduce and suspend the sentence of a minor who was prosecuted
as an adult, after the person has served 10 years of his or her sentence
or has reached the age of 25. Excludes
AB 1285 (Margett) Juvenile
court: criminal history reporting
CPOC Position: Defer position until May meeting
for further study
5-19-04 SUPPORT
Eliminates duplicate reporting requiredment to DOJ
SB1816
(Vincent) School Employees: Termination
CPOC Position: Support if amended to include all
counties.
Would authorize a county superintendent of schools in Los Angeles County,
for the purpose of making reductions during the 2004-05 school year in
the number of county employees because of a reduction in services or elimination
of a juvenile camp program, to retain the county employees until the effective
date of the closure or reduction in services of that juvenile camp program.
SB
1866 (Aanestad) Peace officer motor vehicle pursuit CPOC Position: Support
Would continue the current civil immunity regarding motor vehicle pursuits, if a law enforcement agency, rather than a public agency, adopts and implements a written policy on motor vehicle pursuits that complies with a comprehensive peace officer pursuit guidelines and practices act established by this bill. Among other things the bill would prohibit a peace officer from pursuing a vehicle under specified circumstances, require a peace officer to engage in certain conduct and procedures involving a motor vehicle pursuit, require a peace officer to discontinue a motor vehicle pursuit under specified circumstances, and establish related procedures governing law enforcement dispatchers and supervisors.
Failed passage reconsideration granted.