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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 526
Author: Dickinson (D)
Amended: 8/9/12 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE : 7-0, 6/26/12
AYES: Hancock, Anderson, Calderon, Harman, Liu, Price,
Steinberg
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 7-0, 8/16/12
AYES: Kehoe, Walters, Alquist, Dutton, Lieu, Price,
Steinberg
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 74-0, 1/26/12 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Board of State and Community Corrections:
duties
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : The purpose of this bill is to add the following
duties for the Board of State and Community Corrections
(BSCC) which, as of July 1, 2013, will succeed the
Corrections Standards Authority: (1) identify common
purpose delinquency and gang intervention and prevention
grants for the purpose of consolidation, as specified; (2)
develop incentives for local government to develop
comprehensive regional partnerships, as specified; and (3)
develop, by January 1, 2014, funding allocation policies to
ensure that within three years no less than 70 percent of
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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.
ANALYSIS : Existing law provides for the Corrections
Standards Authority (CSA) an entity within the California
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), as
specified. (Penal Code (PEN) Section 6024.)
Existing law establishes, commencing July 1, 2012, the BSCC
as the successor entity to CSA, an entity independent of
CDCR, as specified. (Penal Code Section 6024.) Existing
law provides the following mission for the BSCC:
The mission of the board shall include providing
statewide leadership, coordination, and technical
assistance to promote effective state and local efforts
and partnerships in California's adult and juvenile
criminal justice system, including addressing gang
problems. This mission shall reflect the principle of
aligning fiscal policy and correctional practices,
including, but not limited to prevention, intervention,
suppression, supervision, and incapacitation, to
promote a justice investment strategy that fits each
county and is consistent with the integrated statewide
goal of improved public safety through cost-effective,
promising, and evidence-based strategies for managing
criminal justice populations. (Penal Code Section
6024(b).)
Existing law enumerates specified duties for the BSCC,
including requiring it to:
Receive and disburse federal funds, and perform all
necessary and appropriate services in the performance of
its duties as established by federal acts.
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 BSCC.
Cooperate with and render technical assistance to the
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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.
Conduct evaluation studies of the programs and activities
assisted by the federal acts.
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 BSCC 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. The BSCC
shall communicate with local agencies and programs in an
effort to promote the best practices for addressing gang
and youth violence through suppression, intervention, and
prevention.
Collect county criminal justice realignment plans within
two months of adoption by the county boards of
supervisors. Commencing January 1, 2013, and annually
thereafter, the BSCC shall collect and analyze available
data regarding the implementation of the local plans and
other outcome-based measures, as defined by the BSCC in
consultation with the Administrative Office of the
Courts, the Chief Probation Officers of California, and
the California State Sheriffs' Association.
By July 1, 2013, and annually thereafter, the BSCC shall
provide to the Governor and the Legislature a report on
the implementation of the plans described above. (Penal
Code Section 6027.)
Existing law also requires the BSCC to dentify, promote,
and provide technical assistance relating to evidence-based
programs, practices, and innovative projects consistent
with the mission of the BSCC. (Penal Code Section
6027(b)(2).)
This bill revises this provision to include a reference to
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promising projects.
This bill requires the BSCC to 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.
This bill requires BSCC to develop incentives for units of
local government to develop comprehensive regional
partnerships whereby adjacent jurisdictions pool grant
funds in order to deliver services to a broader target
population and maximize the impact of state funds at the
local level.
Existing law requires the BSCC to 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 BSCC
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. The BSCC shall communicate with
local agencies and programs in an effort to promote the
best practices for addressing gang and youth violence
through suppression, intervention, and prevention.
This bill additionally requires BSCC, by January 1, 2014,
to 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."
This bill specifies that making in this bill shall be
construed to include funds already designated to the Local
Revenue Fund 2011, pursuant to Section 30025 of the
Government Code.
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FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee,
first-year costs of approximately $100,000 (General Fund)
to the BSCC associated with increased resources and
research-related costs necessary to implement the
provisions of this bill. Ongoing costs of approximately
$50,000 (General Fund) to maintain the increased workload.
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/16/12)
California Cities Gang Prevention Network
California Coalition for Youth
Little Hoover Commission
PICO California
Sacramento Area Congregations Together
State Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : The author states:
In 2009, the Assembly Committee on Accountability and
Administrative Review (AAR) held a hearing on Youth
Crime Prevention and Juvenile Justice Funding. The
Committee found that despite an increasing body of
knowledge that juvenile justice programs operating
according to evidenced based practices were most
effective in achieving the goal of reducing gang
violence, few state agencies require gang intervention
and prevention funding be allocated to evidenced
programs that incorporate such practices. The
Committee adopted a recommendation that state agencies
adopt an evidenced based program policy for the
allocation funding.
Further, the former Office of Gang and Youth Policy
Violence (OGYVP) recommended to the Assembly Select
Committee on Delinquency Prevention and Youth
Development that requiring or incentivizing local
agencies to form regional partnerships and pool gang
related funding will deliver services to a broader
target population and maximize state funding at the
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local level. OGYVP also recommended that grouping
different funding streams that serve the same purpose,
and establishing a single application process would
reduce redundancy among local agencies that must now
submit multiple grant requests for funding, which
address similar problems, and that grouping would make
for a more efficient grant process.
AB 526 would implement the recommendations made by the
Assembly AAR Committee and the former OGYVP. . . .
As of January 1, 2012, the BSCC assumes responsibility
of OGYVP functions. However, BSCC's enabling statute
does not address the need to focus gang
intervention/prevention funding on programs that
operate according to evidenced based principles and
practices, nor streamline the application process, and
encourage regional partnerships. AB 526 would make
clear that these requirements be part of the BSCC grant
making process.
The AAR Committee, and the Select Committee on
Delinquency Prevention and Youth Development have found
that the State spends in excess of $1 billion annually
on youth crime prevention and Juvenile Justice funding,
with about 75% of that money coming from state coffers.
Despite these expenditures, the state has little
ability to determine which programs have been the most
effective at preventing youth crime and lowering
recidivism rates among juvenile offenders. Programs
operating according to evidence based practices,
however, have been independently evaluated and proven
to be effective in studies comparing program
participants to a control group, and then replicated by
others with similar successful outcomes. By focusing
gang prevention/intervention funding on such programs
the state is more likely to get a better return on its
investment.
Additionally, 17 different state agencies allocate
funding to programs addressing juvenile justice,
delinquency and youth development, but with little
coordination and collaboration among them. The grant
process is often duplicated many times over for
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applicants, and the many funding silos prevent
achieving program synergies among grant recipients. AB
526 will initiate consolidating the grant process,
beginning with the BSCC, thereby reducing local
frustration in having to file multiple grant
applications for program with similar objectives, and
utilize program dollars more efficiently and
effectively. Over time, what starts at the BSCC, can
be replicated by other agencies funding juvenile
justice programs.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 74-0, 1/26/12
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall,
Bill Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Campos, Carter, Cedillo,
Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eng, Feuer,
Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani, Beth Gaines, Galgiani,
Garrick, Gatto, Gordon, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey,
Hayashi, Roger Hernández, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman,
Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Lara, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal,
Ma, Mansoor, Mendoza, Miller, Mitchell, Monning, Morrell,
Nestande, Nielsen, Norby, Olsen, Pan, Perea, V. Manuel
Pérez, Portantino, Skinner, Solorio, Swanson, Torres,
Valadao, Wagner, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, John A.
Pérez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Charles Calderon, Davis, Gorell,
Halderman, Silva, Smyth
RJG:d 8/17/12 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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