BILL NUMBER: AB 1081	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Torrico

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act relating to electronic monitoring.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1081, as introduced, Torrico. Electronic monitoring: criminal
offenders.
   Existing law authorizes the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation to use global positioning system technology to
supervise persons on parole and authorizes county probation
departments to use global positioning system technology to supervise
persons on probation, as specified. Existing law also requires that
every person who has been convicted of a registerable sex offense to
be monitored by a global positioning system for the term of his or
her parole, or for the duration or any remaining part thereof,
whichever time period is less.
   This bill would declare the Legislature's intent to enact
legislation to allow courts to order electronic surveillance for
domestic abusers and stalkers under specified conditions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would allow the court to order electronic
surveillance for domestic abusers and stalkers as a condition of
parole, mandatory supervised release, probation, or violation of a
protective order. It is also the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would create an electronic monitoring system for
domestic abusers and stalkers that utilizes devices with capabilities
that would include, but not be limited to, immediately notifying law
enforcement of any breach of a court-ordered inclusion zone and
notifying the victim in near real time of any breach, and that would
impose additional penalties on violators to help pay for the program.